RS Official Gazette, Nos 103/2016 and 63/2025
Pursuant to Article 51а, paragraph 3 of the Law on Banks (RS Official
Gazette, Nos 107/2005, 91/2010 and 14/2015) and Article 15, paragraph 1 of
the Law on the National Bank of Serbia (RS Official Gazette, Nos 72/2003,
55/2004, 85/2005 – other law, 44/2010, 76/2012, 106/2012, 14/2015 and
40/2015 – CC decision), the Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia
adopts the following
D E C I S I O N
ON DISCLOSURE OF DATA AND INFORMATION BY BANKS
- This Decision sets forth in detail the contents of data and/or
information banks are required to disclose pursuant to the Law on Banks
(hereinafter: the Law) and the conditions, manner and deadlines for their
disclosure.
- A bank shall disclose its business name and head office, as well as
data and/or information relating to its:
- risk management strategy and policies;
- capital;
- capital requirements and capital adequacy;
- internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP);
- capital buffers;
- risk exposures and approaches to risk measurement and/or
assessment;
- leverage ratio;
7a) liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio;
- banking group and the relationship between the parent company
and subordinated companies.
- A bank shall regulate by an internal act detailed criteria for
determining data and/or information referred to in Section 2 hereof, the
manner of assessing and controlling the adequacy and accuracy of such data
and/or information, and the timeliness and frequency of their disclosure, and
of assessing whether this disclosure presents a comprehensive risk profile of
the bank, as well as the criteria for determining data and information referred
to in Section 21 hereof.
Where the data and/or information referred to in Section 2 hereof do not
present a comprehensive risk profile of a bank, the bank shall disclose
additional information and/or data to complete the overview of its risk profile.
A bank shall ensure, at least once a year, a regular independent audit
of the internal act referred to in paragraph 1 hereof, as well as of the activities
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carried out to ensure adequacy and accuracy of the data and/or information
referred to in that paragraph and the timeliness of their disclosure.
Data and/or information on risk management strategy and policies
4. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
the strategy and policies for managing each individual risk it is exposed or
may be exposed to in the course of its operation:
- brief description of the strategy and policies with regard to each
individual risk;
- structure and/or organisation of the risk management function;
- scope and features of the risk reporting system, as well as the
manner of risk measurement;
- risk mitigation techniques and methods for ensuring and
monitoring efficiency of risk mitigation;
- confirmation from a bank that its established risk management
system is adequate for its risk profile and business policy and strategy;
- brief description of the correlation between the bank’s risk profile
and its business strategy, as well as a brief description of the key
performance indicators of the bank regarding risk management and their
values, based on which interested third parties can themselves assess bank’s
risk management, as well as the manner in which risk tolerance is included in
the risk management system;
- description of the manner ensuring that the bank’s managing
bodies are informed about risks.
Data and/or information on bank capital
5. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
its capital:
- amount of capital, as well as amount of Common Equity Tier 1
capital, Additional Tier 1 capital and Tier 2 capital, broken down by individual
elements of capital and all deductibles;
- description of the main features of financial instruments included in
the calculation of capital;
- data and information on matching capital items in the balance sheet
with capital items in Annex 1 to this Decision, as well as data and information
on differences between items in the balance sheet compiled for the needs of
supervision on a consolidated basis of the banking group and items in the
consolidated balance sheet compiled in accordance with the International
Accounting Standards and/or International Financial Reporting Standards.
- description of all restrictions applied when calculating capital, as
well as capital instruments, regulatory adjustments and deductibles that these
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restrictions apply to, in accordance with the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks.
A bank shall separately disclose the type and amount of regulatory
adjustments, deductibles and items which the bank is not obliged to deduce
from capital items, in accordance with the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks.
Where a bank discloses indicators on capital, calculated in a manner
other than stipulated, it shall also disclose a detailed explanation of the
manner in which these indicators were calculated.
Data and/or information on capital requirements and capital adequacy
6. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
its capital requirements and capital adequacy:
- amount of the capital requirement for credit risk, including
counterparty risk, dilution risk and settlement/delivery risk to free deliveries,
for each class of exposure – if a bank applies the Standardised Approach to
calculate credit risk-weighted assets (hereinafter: Standardised Approach).
- amount of the capital requirement for credit risk, including
counterparty risk, dilution risk and settlement/delivery risk to free deliveries,
for each class of exposure – if a bank applies the Internal Ratings Based
Approach to calculate credit-risk weighted assets (hereinafter: IRB
Approach), disclosing separately data and/or information for:
– the retail exposure class, specifically, for retail exposures
secured by mortgages on immovable property, for qualifying revolving retail
exposures and exposures to small and medium-sized enterprises classified
as retail exposures, in accordance with the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks;
– the equity exposure class, specifically, for each of the
approaches specified in the decision governing capital adequacy of banks
(the Simple Risk-Weight Approach, PD/LGD Approach or internal models
approach), for exchange traded equity exposures, for non-exchange traded
equity exposures in sufficiently diversified portfolios and other equity
exposures, as well as for equity exposures to which a bank applies the
Standardised Approach in accordance with the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks;
- amount of the capital requirement for settlement/delivery risk in
respect of unsettled transactions;
- amount of the capital requirement for market risks and type of
approach used to calculate individual capital requirements for these risks,
disclosing separately the amount of capital requirements for price risk of debt
securities, capital requirements for specific price risk in respect of
securitisation items, capital requirements for price risk arising from equity
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securities, an additional capital requirement for large exposures from the
trading book, capital requirements for foreign exchange risk and capital
requirements for commodities risk;
5) amount of the capital requirement for operational risk and type of
approach used to calculate this requirement, disclosing separately the
amounts under each of the approaches a bank used to calculate the
requirement;
6) bank’s capital adequacy ratios.
The bank which calculates risk-weighted specialised lending exposures,
in accordance with the decision governing capital adequacy of banks, by
using an approach stipulated for the case when it cannot prove that its PD
parameter estimates meet the minimum prescribed conditions, shall disclose
all exposures classified in risk categories in accordance with that approach.
The bank which calculates risk-weighted equity exposures by using the
Simple Risk-Weight Approach in accordance with the decision governing
capital adequacy of banks shall disclose all exposures for which it applies
some of the prescribed weights.
Data and/or information on internal capital
adequacy assessment process
7. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
the internal capital adequacy assessment process:
- brief description of the internal capital adequacy assessment
process;
- brief description of approaches used for measuring and/or
assessing all material risks.
At the request of the National Bank of Serbia, a bank shall disclose the
result of the process referred to in paragraph 1 hereof, as well as additional
capital requirements set by the National Bank of Serbia during prudential
supervision, based on adequacy assessment and reliability of the internal
capital adequacy assessment process, its consistent implementation and the
result of the assessment.
Data and/or information on capital buffers
8. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
the countercyclical capital buffer:
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- geographical distribution of exposures significant for the calculation of
the countercyclical capital buffer;
- total amount of the bank’s countercyclical capital buffer.
Data and/or information on bank’s risk exposure and approaches for
risk measuring and/or assessing
Credit risk
- A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
exposure to credit risk and dilution risk, as well as regarding approaches for
measuring and/or assessing those risks:
- definitions used by a bank for the concepts of exposures in default
and impaired exposures for accounting purposes;
- description of approaches and methods used for determining
general and specific credit risk adjustments;
- total amount of bank’s exposures after accounting write-offs and
without taking into account the effects of credit risk mitigation techniques, and
the average amount of the exposures over the period broken down by
exposure classes;
- geographical distribution of all exposures, broken down by
materially significant areas, by exposure classes or more detailed, as
applicable;
- breakdown of all exposures by sector or counterparty type, by
exposure classes, or more detailed, as applicable, while separately disclosing
the following information in case of significant sectors and counterparties:
– amounts of impaired exposures and exposures in default,
– amounts of specific and general credit risk adjustments;
- the residual maturity breakdown of all exposures, broken down by
exposure classes, or more detailed, as applicable;
- amounts of impaired exposures and exposures in default
presented separately by significant geographic area, including, as applicable,
the amounts of specific and general credit risk adjustments for each separate
geographic area;
- presentation of changes in specific and general credit risk
adjustments for impaired exposures, including:
– description of the type of specific and general credit risk
adjustments,
– opening balances,
– amounts of determined credit risk adjustments during the
period for which the disclosure is done,
– amounts of provisions or reversals for estimated losses under
exposures during the period for which the disclosure is done, other
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adjustments, including those stemming from exchange rate differences,
business combinations, acquisition or disposal of participation in subsidiaries
and transfer between credit risk adjustments,
– closing balances;
9) distribution of exposures by category of classification, type of
counterparty, as well as data on calculated and required reserve.
Specific credit risk adjustments and reversals presented directly in the
income statement – are disclosed separately.
10. If a bank applies the Standardised Approach, it shall disclose, in
addition to the data and information referred to in Section 9 hereof, also the
following data and/or information for each class of exposure:
- the name of a chosen rating agency or export credit agency, as
well as the reasons for any change in the selection of the agency;
- classes of exposure for which credit ratings of each chosen rating
agency or export credit agency are used;
- description of procedures pertaining to application of issuer’s
credit rating or issued financial instruments of the issuer for certain nontrading book positions;
- distribution of credit ratings of the chosen rating agency and export
credit agency into relevant credit quality steps;
- values of exposure before and after the use of credit protection for
each credit quality step, including exposures which represent deductibles
from capital.
- If a bank applies the IRB Approach, it shall disclose, in addition to the
data and/or information referred to in Section 9 hereof, also the following data
and/or information:
- consent of the National Bank of Serbia for the use of the IRB
Approach, including consent to sequential introduction of this Approach for
different classes of exposure, as well as sequential transition, in accordance
with the decision governing capital adequacy of banks, from the FIRB
Approach to the AIRB Approach for classes of exposure to central
governments and central banks, companies and banks;
- an explanation and review of:
– the structure of the internal rating system and relation between
internal and external ratings,
– the use of internal estimates for purposes other than for
calculating credit risk-weighted assets,
– the procedures for managing and recognising credit risk
mitigation techniques,
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– control mechanisms for rating systems validation, including the
description of integrity, accountability and validation of such systems;
3) description of the use of internal ratings for the following exposure
classes:
– central governments and central banks,
– banks,
– companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises
within this class, specialised lending and exposures arising from purchased
receivables,
– retail, with information on retail exposures secured by
mortgages on immovable property, qualifying revolving retail exposures, as
well as exposures to small and medium-sized enterprises classified as retail
exposures in accordance with the decision governing capital adequacy of
banks,
– equity exposures;
4) the exposure values for each of the exposure classes. Exposures
to central governments and central banks, banks and companies where a
bank uses own estimates of LGDs or conversion factors for the calculation of
credit risk-weighted assets, shall be disclosed separately from exposure
classes for which a bank does not use such estimates;
5) total exposures (the sum of outstanding claims and unfunded
commitments), the exposure-weighted average LGD in percentage for a bank
using own LGD estimates, exposures for each relevant geographic area of
credit exposures, the exposure-weighted average risk weight and, if using
own estimates of conversion factors, unfunded commitments under lines of
credit and other lending, as well as exposure-weighted average amount of
funded commitments – for each of the following exposure classes: central
governments and central banks, banks, companies and equity, for a sufficient
number of risk categories under each class (including categories with default
status), to allow for a clear differentiation between credit risk levels;
6) for the retail exposure class, in particular for retail exposures
secured by mortgages on immovable property, qualifying revolving retail
exposures and exposures to small and medium-sized enterprises classified
as retail exposures in accordance with the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks (as applicable, exposures on a pooled basis), or an
analysis of exposures (outstanding claims and unfunded commitments)
against a sufficient number of expected loss grades to allow for a clear
differentiation of a credit risk level (as applicable, exposures on a pooled
basis);
7) amount of specific credit risk adjustments in the preceding period
for each exposure class (and, in case of the retail class, and in particular for
each of the subclasses of exposures set out in provision 6) of this paragraph)
and how they differ from past experience;
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8) description of the factors that impacted on the loss experience in
the preceding period (for example, has a bank experienced higher than
average default rates, or higher than average LGDs or conversion factors);
9) the bank’s estimates of expected losses against actual losses over
a longer period. At a minimum, this shall include data and/or information on
estimates of losses against actual losses in each exposure class (for retail,
and in particular for each of the types of exposures as set out in provision 6)
of this paragraph), over a period sufficient to allow for a meaningful
assessment of the performance of the internal ratings. Where appropriate,
this should be further decomposed to provide analysis of PD also for banks
using own estimates of LGDs and/or conversion factors.
Description of the use of internal ratings referred to in paragraph 1,
provision 3) of this Section shall contain the following data and/or information:
- types of exposure included in each exposure class;
- definitions, methods and data used for estimation and validation of
PD, including assumptions employed in the calculation of this parameter;
- definitions, methods and data used for estimation and validation of
LGD and conversion factors, including assumptions employed in their
calculation, where a bank uses own estimates of these parameters;
- descriptions of material deviations of the bank’s definition of
default status from the definition stipulated by the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks, specifying classes and/or sub-classes of exposure
affected by material deviations.
A bank shall disclose the exposure values from the specialised
lending sub-class which do not meet the requirements for use of own PD
estimates and describe the method of assessment of these values.
- If a bank uses credit risk mitigation techniques, it shall disclose, in
addition to data referred to in Section 9 and Sections 10 and/or 11 hereof,
also the following data and/or information:
- internal acts governing the valuation and management of credit
protection instruments;
- methods of balance sheet and off-balance sheet netting and to
which extent a bank uses these forms of netting;
- description of the main types of funded credit protection
instruments used by a bank;
- presentation of the main types of providers of credit protection
deriving from a guarantee or credit derivative as well as their credit quality;
- presentation of market or credit risk concentrations within the
credit risk mitigation techniques used;
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6) total value of exposure (after netting) secured by eligible financial
collateral or other eligible collateral, per class of exposure, after application of
volatility factors – if a bank implements the Standardised Approach or IRB
Approach without using own estimates for LGD parameters and conversion
factors.
If a bank applies the IRB Approach, for the equity exposure class it
shall disclose the total value of exposure referred to in paragraph 1, provision
6) of this Section for each of the approaches it uses for the calculation of
credit-risk weighted assets.
Counterparty risk
13. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
its exposure to counterparty risk, as well as regarding the approaches for
measuring and/or assessing that risk:
- description of methods for allocation of internal capital and
assignment of credit limit for counterparty risk exposures;
- collateral management and exposure value adjustment based on
counterparty risk;
- description of estimate and control of correlation risk;
- estimated amount of collateral it would have to provide to a
counterparty in case of a downgrade in its own credit rating;
- gross positive fair value of contracts, netting benefits, net current
exposure to counterparty risk, value of collateral and net exposure arising
from credit derivatives (taking into account positive effects of netting and
collateral);
- value of exposure to counterparty risk in accordance with methods
for the calculation of this amount set out by the decision governing capital
adequacy of banks;
- notional values of credit derivative hedges and the distribution of
current exposures by type;
- notional values of credit derivatives (disclosing separately the
positions held by a bank in its own name and for its own account and
positions held by a bank in its own name but for the account of its clients),
shown by type of derivatives and, within them, by credit derivative hedges
bought and sold;
- estimated value of α parameter if a bank obtained prior consent of
the National Bank of Serbia to estimate this value.
Market risks
- If a bank applies the internal models approach for the calculation of
capital requirements for market risks, it shall disclose:
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- for each portfolio: characteristics of the model used, description of
stress tests, as well as the description of methods used for back testing and
validation of internal models and modelling processes;
- framework for application of the internal model for the use of which
it obtained the consent of the National Bank of Serbia;
- as applicable, for internal models for incremental default and
migration risk, as well as for internal models for correlation trading, the
methods applied and risks measured through the application of internal
models, including the description of the bank’s approach to determine
liquidation periods, method applied to estimate capital requirements in
accordance with the standards of conservative banking and approach used
for model validation;
- description of methods for aligning with the requirements for
inclusion of positions in the trading book and valuation of these positions;
- the highest, the lowest and the mean of the daily VaR parameter
and stressed VaR parameter over the reporting period, as well as amounts of
these parameters calculated as per the period end;
- the highest, the lowest and the mean value of the last estimate of
incremental default and migration risk, as well as the last estimate of risk of
the correlation trading portfolio over the reporting period and as per the period
end;
- weighted average of the liquidation period for each sub-portfolio
covered by internal models for incremental default risk, migration risk, as well
as correlation trading;
- a comparison of the daily end-of-day VaR measures to the oneday changes of the portfolio’s value by the end of the subsequent business
day, together with an analysis of any important overshooting during the
reporting period.
Operational risk
- If a bank applies the Advanced Approach for the calculation of capital
requirements for operational risk, it shall disclose the following data and/or
information:
- consent of the National Bank of Serbia for the use of the
Advanced Approach;
- description of the approach, including the description of relevant
internal and external factors;
- description of the use of insurance and other mechanisms for risk
transfer with the aim of mitigating this risk.
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If a bank applies a combination of different approaches for the
calculation of capital requirements for operational risk, it shall disclose the
framework for the application of each of the approaches used.
Interest rate risk from positions in the non-trading book
16. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
its exposure to interest rate risk from positions in the non-trading book, as
well as regarding the approaches for measuring and/or assessing that risk:
- sources of this risk and frequency of its measurement;
- main assumptions for measuring and/or assessing exposure to
this risk, including assumptions on early loan repayments and behaviour of
non-maturity deposits;
- changes in revenues, economic value or other factor (per
currency) which managing bodies use to identify interest rate shocks and/or
manage such shocks in line with the method established for measuring
interest rate risk.
Exposures in the form of securitisation positions
- A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
securitisation exposures and, as applicable, separately for the trading book
and the non-trading book:
- description of bank’s objectives regarding securitisation;
- characteristics of other risks, including liquidity risk, associated
with securitisation assets;
- type of risk per order of collection of underlying securitisation
positions and underlying assets (hereinafter: underlying assets) held for resecuritisation;
- different roles of a bank in securitisation and its participation within
each of the roles;
- description of established processes to monitor changes in credit
and market risks under securitisation positions, including the manner in which
the underlying assets affect securitisation exposures and description of the
manner of applying these processes to re-securitisation exposures;
- description of bank’s policy determining the risk mitigation method
under retained securitisation positions and re-securitisation positions, while
highlighting materially significant counterparties per type of exposure;
- method which a bank applies to calculate risk-weighted
securitisation exposures, including the types of exposures to which each
individual approach is applied;
- type of securitisation entities which the bank sponsor uses for
securitisation of third party’s exposures, including data on whether and in
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which form a bank has exposures towards such entity, separately for balance
sheet and off-balance sheet exposures, as well as the list of entities which a
bank manages or advises, which invest in securitisation positions by a bank
or in securitisation positions of the securitisation entities for which a bank acts
as a sponsor;
9) description of accounting policies which a bank applies for
securitisation activities, including the description of:
– treatment of transactions associated with securitisation
positions, paying attention whether such transactions are treated as sale or
financing;
– recognition of profit from sale,
– methods, basic assumptions, data and changes from the
preceding period of estimating the value of securitisation positions,
– treatment of synthetic securitisation, if not covered by another
accounting policy,
– manner of estimating the value of assets to be subject to
securitisation and whether they are recorded in the trading book or in the nontrading book,
– policies for recognising liabilities in the balance sheet of a bank
for the provisions of the contract under which a bank would be obliged to
provide financial support for securitisation assets,
10) business name of the selected rating agency whose credit rating
assessment a bank uses regarding securitisation and all types of exposures
for which the assessments of the agency are used;
11) as applicable, description of the Internal Assessment Approach,
including the structure of the internal assessment process and the link
between internal assessment and external ratings, and the use of internal
assessment for purposes other than capital requirements identification;
control mechanisms of the internal assessment process, including the
presentation of integrity, accountability and verification of the process, type of
exposure to which this process is applied and stress factors used to identify
an increase in credit quality, per type of exposure;
12) the following information and/or data, for each type of exposure,
per type of exposure, separately for the trading book and the non-trading
book:
– total value of outstanding securitisation exposures of a bank,
separately for traditional and synthetic securitisations and securitisations
where a bank only acts as the sponsor,
– total amount of assets to be subject to securitisation,
– for securitisation exposures containing the early repayment
clause – aggregate amount of drawn exposures ascribed to the share of
originator and/or investor, the aggregate capital requirements of a bank per
share of originator and the aggregate capital requirements of a bank per
share of investors in drawn amounts and undrawn credit lines,
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– amount of securitisation positions which are deductibles from
capital, and/or to which credit risk weight of 1.250% is applied,
– description of activities associated with securitisation during
the ongoing period, including the amount of securitisation exposures, as well
as amounts of recognised profits or losses from sale;
13) the following information and/or data, separately for the trading
book and the non-trading book:
– total amount of retained or purchased securitisation positions
and related capital requirements, broken down by securitisation positions and
re-securitisation positions, and further broken down into an appropriate
number of classes per risk weight or amount of capital requirements for all
approaches applied to calculate capital requirements,
– total amount of retained or purchased re-securitisation
positions, broken down by exposure before and after protection, and/or
insurance and the value of exposure to guarantors broken down by category
of credit quality of guarantor and/or by name of guarantor;
14) for the non-trading book, and in respect of securitisation
exposures of a bank – the amount of impaired securitisation exposures,
securitisation exposures in default and the amount of losses recognised by a
bank during the ongoing period, broken down by type of exposure;
15) for the trading book – the total amount of outstanding
securitisation exposures of a bank which are subject to the calculation of
capital requirements for market risk, broken down by exposure per traditional
and synthetic securitisation,
16) as applicable, data on whether a bank provides support to
securitisation within the meaning of the decision governing capital adequacy
of banks, and the impact of such support on bank’s capital.
Where significant changes of the amount referred to in paragraph 1,
provisions 13) to 15) occur from the period of the previous disclosure, a bank
shall disclose the explanation of such changes.
Equity exposures in the non-trading book
18. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding
equity exposures in the non-trading book:
- the differentiation between exposures based on their objectives,
including for capital gains relationship and strategic reasons;
- an overview of accounting policies and valuation methods
employed, including key assumptions and approaches affecting valuation, as
well as any significant change thereof;
- book values, fair values and, for exchange-traded equities, a
comparison to the market price where it is materially different from the fair
value;
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4) type, nature and values of exposure on exchange-traded equity
investments, non-exchange traded equity investments in sufficiently
diversified portfolios, and other equity investments;
5) total realised gains/losses for the preceding period arising from
sale or closing of positions referring to equity investments;
6) total unrealised gains/losses, total latent revaluation gains/losses,
as well as their amounts included in the calculation of Tier 1 capital or Tier 2
capital.
Leverage ratio
19. A bank shall disclose the leverage ratio, calculated in accordance
with the decision governing the capital adequacy of banks.
Liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio
19а. A bank shall disclose the liquidity coverage ratio and net stable
funding ratio, calculated in accordance with the decision governing the
liquidity risk management for banks.
Data and/or information on a banking group and the relationship
between the parent company and subordinated companies
20. A bank shall disclose the following data and/or information regarding a
banking group and the relationship between the parent company and
subordinated companies:
- overview of differences between reports compiled for the needs of
supervision of a banking group on a consolidated basis and consolidated
financial reports compiled in accordance with the International Accounting
Standards and/or International Financial Reporting Standards, except for
differences referred to in Section 5, paragraph 1, provision 3) hereof, with a
brief description of the following group members:
– to which the full consolidation method was applied,
– to which the proportionate consolidation method was applied,
– which have been excluded from consolidation because the
bank’s participation in the capital of these legal entities represents a
deductible from the capital of the banking group;
- which have been excluded from consolidation and do not
represent a deductible from the capital of the banking group;
- any existing or potential significant legal or other obstacle to timely
transfer of capital or settlement of liabilities between the parent company and
subordinated company.
Exception from the disclosure obligation
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21. By way of exception, if certain data and/or information referred to in
Section 3, paragraph 2, Section 4 and Sections 7-20 hereof are not materially
significant or represent a banking secret, and/or if their disclosure could
negatively affect the bank’s competitive position in the market, a bank is not
required to disclose them.
The data and information not materially significant shall mean data
and information whose disclosure or presentation could not affect the
assessment or decision making of a person in a business relationship with a
bank.
A bank which did not disclose data and/or information referred to in
paragraph 1 of this Section shall disclose the fact that such data and/or
information are not disclosed, as well as the general information and reasons
behind its judgement that those data and/or information are not materially
significant, that they represent a banking secret and/or that they may
negatively affect the bank's competitive position in the market.
Terms, manner and deadlines for disclosure of data
and/or information by banks
22. A bank shall disclose data and/or information prescribed by this
Decision on its website, on the home page or in the part of the website where
its financial statements are published.
A bank shall disclose data and/or information referred to in the
following provisions:
- Section 5, paragraph 1, provision 1) hereof – on PI–KAP form
(Annex 1);
- Section 5, paragraph 1, provision 2) hereof pertaining to financial
instruments included in calculation of the bank's capital – on PI–FIKAP form
(Annex 2);
- Section 5, paragraph 1, provision 3) hereof – in accordance with
the guidelines on matching items of bank’s capital from the balance sheet
with items of bank’s capital from Annex 1 hereof (Annex 3);
- Section 6 hereof – on PI–AKB form (Annex 4);
- Section 8, provision 1) hereof – on PI–GR form (Annex 5);
- Section 8, provision 2) hereof – on PI–KZS form (Annex 6);
The content of the forms referred to in paragraph 2 of this Section is
defined in Annexes 1 to 6 of this Decision which are enclosed and integral
herewith.
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A bank shall disclose data and information referred to in Sections 5,
6, 8, 19 and 19a hereof both on an individual and consolidated bases.
23. If a bank has disclosed some data and/or information prescribed by
this Decision in a different manner, in accordance with other regulations, it
shall be deemed to have fulfilled its disclosure obligation under this Decision
provided that it has stated on its website where those data are disclosed.
Paragraph 1 of this Section shall not apply to the disclosure of data
and information referred to in Sections 5, 6, 8, 19 and 19a of this Decision.
24. A bank shall disclose data and/or information prescribed hereby at
least once a year – as at 31 December, by no later than 31 May of the
following year.
In addition to disclosures referred to in paragraph 1 of this Section, a
bank shall disclose data and information referred to in Sections 5, 6, 19 and
19a hereof, as well as quantitative data and/or information relating to the IRB
Approach (if applied by the bank) and credit risk mitigation techniques, as at
30 June of the current year, by no later than 30 September of the same year.
A bank shall assess at least once a year whether the data and/or
information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Section need to be disclosed
more frequently than laid down in that paragraph and/or assess at least semiannually whether the data and/or information referred to in paragraph 2 of this
Section need to be disclosed more frequently than laid down in that
paragraph, taking into account the following data and/or information:
- volume of business operations;
- banking products offered to clients;
- presence in different countries;
- participation in the banking sector;
- participation in the international financial markets;
- participation in the international payment, settlement and clearing
system.
- This Decision repeals the Decision on Disclosure of Data and
Information by Banks (RS Official Gazette, Nos 125/2014 and 4/2015).
- This Decision shall enter into force on the eighth day following its
publication in the RS Official Gazette and shall apply as of 30 June 2017.
NBS Executive Board No 100 Chair
15 December 2016 of the Executive Board of the
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National Bank of Serbia
Belgrade Governor
of the National Bank of Serbia
Dr Jorgovanka Tabaković, sign.