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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 March 2014 - onwards

Regulation 71 Market risk

(1) Institutions shall ensure that policies and processes for the identification, measurement and management of all material sources and effects of market risks are established, maintained and implemented.

(2) Where the short position falls due before the long position, institutions shall ensure that it also takes such measures as are appropriate to address the risk of a shortage of liquidity.

(3) Where an institution takes significant measures to address a risk of a shortage of liquidity, under paragraph (2), it shall notify the Bank in writing.

(4) Institutions shall ensure that their internal capital shall be adequate for material market risks that are not subject to an own funds requirement.

(5) Institutions which have, in calculating own funds requirements for position risk in accordance with Part Three, Title IV, Chapter 2 of the Capital Requirements Regulation, netted off their positions in one or more of the equities constituting a stock-index against one or more positions in the stock-index future or other stock-index product shall have adequate internal capital to cover the basis risk of loss caused by the future's, or other product's, value not moving fully in line with that of its constituent equities.