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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 2 April 2016 - onwards
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Article 179 Spread risk on credit derivatives

1. The capital requirement SCRcd for spread risk on credit derivatives other than those referred to in paragraph 3 shall be equal to the higher of the following capital requirements:

(a) the loss in the basic own funds that would result from an instantaneous increase in absolute terms of the credit spread of the instruments underlying the credit derivatives;

(b) the loss in the basic own funds that would result from an instantaneous relative decrease of the credit spread of the instruments underlying the credit derivatives by 75 %.

For the purposes of point (a), the instantaneous increase of the credit spread of the instruments underlying the credit derivatives for which a credit assessment by a nominated ECAI is available shall be calculated according to the following table.

Credit quality step

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Instantaneous increase in spread (in percentage points)

1,3

1,5

2,6

4,5

8,4

16,20

16,20

2. For the purposes of point (a) of paragraph 1, the instantaneous increase of the credit spread of the instruments underlying the credit derivatives for which a credit assessment by a nominated ECAI is not available shall be 5 percentage points.