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Banking Prudential Requirements for Capital and Credit Risk
The Prudential Regulation Authority published finalised bank capital adequacy requirements on 1 October 2021, consolidated within the Banking Prudential Requirements documents. These documents, with versions dated after 1 July 2021, incorporate minor technical changes and formatting corrections to the standards released in June 2021. The regulatory framework includes specific provisions for capital definitions, credit risk weighted asset calculations, market risk, operational risk, and transitional capital instruments.
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Standards and requirements for banks
On 1 October 2021, we published the finalised bank capital adequacy requirements, outlined in the new Banking Prudential Requirements (BPR) documents. Documents with a version date after 1 July 2021 differ from those published in June 2021, mainly to correct formatting and incorporate minor technical changes.
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BPR documents
BPR document
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BPR100: Capital adequacy (PDF 652 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR110: Capital definitions (PDF 1.26 MB)
1 October 2023
BPR120: Capital adequacy process requirements (PDF 608 KB)
1 October 2023
BPR130: Credit risk RWAs overview (PDF 543 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR131: Standardised credit risk RWAs (PDF 967 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR132: Credit risk mitigation (PDF 778 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR133: IRB credit risk RWAs (PDF 1.1 MB)
1 July 2024
BPR134: IRB minimum system requirements (PDF 752 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR140: Market risk exposure (PDF 784 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR150: Standardised operational risk (PDF 467 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR151: AMA operational risk (PDF 581 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR160: Insurance, securitisation, and loan transfers (PDF 527 KB)
1 July 2024
BPR001: Glossary (PDF 550 KB)
1 October 2023
Capital instrument transitionals
These are specific (superseded) versions of Banking Supervision Handbook documents that are referred to by BPR110: Capital Instruments for the purpose of defining transitional Additional Tier 1 and Tier 2 capital instruments.
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Document reference
Date of issue
BS2A November 2015 superseded (PDF 1.8 MB)
BS2A
November 2015
BS2B November 2015 superseded (PDF 3.4 MB)
BS2B
November 2015
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