2022-09-26

Regulations amending Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines regarding governance, risk management and control at credit institutions

Finansinspektionen issued these regulations to amend the definitions within its 2014 guidelines on governance, risk management, and control for credit institutions. The document establishes precise meanings for key terms including risk appetite, risk culture, senior management, and outsourcing agreements to ensure consistent regulatory application. These amendments entered into force on July 7, 2021, following their decision on June 22, 2021.

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Finansinspektionen’s Regulatory Code Publisher: Chief Legal Counsel Eric Leijonram, Finansinspektionen, Sweden, www.fi.se ISSN 1102-7460 This translation is furnished solely for information purposes. Only the printed version of the regulation in Swedish applies for the application of the law. 1 Regulations amending Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2014:1) regarding governance, risk management and control at credit institutions; decided on 22 June 2021. Finansinspektionen prescribes pursuant to Chapter 5, section 2, point 5 of the Banking and Financing Business Ordinance (2004:329) that Chapter 1, section 3 of Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2014:1) regarding governance, risk management and control at credit institutions pensions shall have the following wording. Chapter 1 Section 3 In these regulations and general guidelines the terms and expressions shall mean the following:

  1. The delegated regulation for MiFID 2: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 of 25 April 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards organisational requirements and operating conditions for investment firms and defined terms for the purposes of that Directive.
  2. EEA: European Economic Area
  3. Remuneration committee: The same as in Finansinspektionen’sregulations (FFFS 2011:1) regarding remuneration systems in credit institutions.
  4. Function: a unit or a department comprising one person or several people upon whom it is incumbent to perform one or several tasks within the operations.
  5. Internal rules: policy and governance documents, guidelines, instructions or other written documents through which an undertaking governs its operations.
  6. Control function: a function for risk control, compliance or internal audit.
  7. Limit: an established limit for risk exposure pertaining to e.g. a specific customer, customer group, market or product.
  8. Risk management framework: the undertaking’s strategies, processes, procedures, internal rules, limits, controls and reporting procedures that constitute a framework for the undertaking’s risk management.
  9. Risk appetite: level and orientation of the undertaking’s risks that are acceptable for achieving the strategic goals of the undertaking. FFFS 2021:21 Published on 30 June 2021

FFFS 2021:21 2 10. Risk exposure: a measure of the risk to which an undertaking is exposed at a certain point in time. 11. Risk culture: professional values, attitudes and behaviour that are of crucial significance to how an undertaking manages its risks. 12. Risk strategy: a strategy for assuming, steering and exercising control of the risks to which the undertaking is or could become exposed. 13. Capital Requirements Regulation: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012. 14. Outsourcing agreement: an agreement between an undertaking and a service provider according to which the service provider performs a process, a service or an activity which would otherwise have been performed by the undertaking itself. 15. Senior management: The same as in Finansinspektionen’s regulations (FFFS 2011:1) regarding remuneration systems in credit institutions.


These regulations shall enter into force on 07 July 2021. ERIK THEDÉEN Kristina Wollter