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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 8 July 2019 - onwards
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Article 184 Excess exposure

1. The excess exposure on a single name exposure i shall be equal to the following:

XSi =  Max(0; Ei - CTi • Assets)

where:

(a) Ei denotes the exposure at default to single name exposure i that is included in the calculation base of the market risk concentrations sub-module;

(b) Assets denotes the calculation base of the market risk concentrations sub-module;

(c) CTi denotes the relative excess exposure threshold referred to in Article 185.

2. The calculation base of the market risk concentration sub-module Assets shall be equal to the value of all assets held by an insurance or reinsurance undertaking, excluding the following:

(a) assets held in respect of life insurance contracts where the investment risk is fully borne by the policy holders;

(b) exposures to a counterparty which belongs to the same group as the insurance or reinsurance undertaking, provided that all of the following conditions are met:

(i) the counterparty is an insurance or reinsurance undertaking, an insurance holding company, a mixed financial holding company or an ancillary services undertaking;

(ii) the counterparty is fully consolidated in accordance with Article 335(1)(a);