On July 6, 2017, the European Banking Authority (“EBA“) published a press release announcing the launch of a supplementary data collection relating to its proposals for a revised prudential framework for investment firms. It also published a template for investment firms authorized under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (2004/39/EC) (MiFID) with instructions.

This exercise follows up on the first data collection launched on July 15, 2016, and the discussion paper published by the EBA on November 4, 2016, in which the EBA consulted on its proposals for developing a new prudential framework.

The EBA notes that, following feedback to the discussion paper, it has improved its initiation proposals concerning primarily the calculation of capital requirements based on risk proxies (known as “K-factors“) under the following three types of risk: (i) risk to customers (RtC), risk to market (RtM) and risk to firm (RtF). It has decided to undertake a supplementary data collection to allow for a complete calibration of all the relevant aspects of the new prudential regime and a final impact assessment of its proposal on regulatory capital requirements. The data collection has been designed to reduce that burden by limiting the number of variables requested to the minimum necessary to accomplish the intended purpose.

The deadline for firms to submit completed templates to the relevant national competent authorities is August 3, 2017.