[X1PART THREE U.K. CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS

TITLE II U.K. CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CREDIT RISK

CHAPTER 6 U.K. Counterparty credit risk

Section 9 U.K. Own funds requirements for exposures to a central counterparty

Article 304 U.K. Treatment of clearing members' exposures to clients

1 . Where an institution acts as a clearing member and, in that capacity, acts as a financial intermediary between a client and a CCP, it shall calculate the own funds requirements for its CCP-related transactions with the client in accordance with Sections 1 to 8 of this Chapter and with Title VI of Part Three, as applicable.

2 . Where an institution acting as a clearing member enters into a contractual arrangement with a client of another clearing member that facilitates, in accordance with Article 48(5) and (6), of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the transfer of positions and collateral referred to in Article 305(2)(b) of this Regulation for that client, and that contractual agreement gives rise to a contingent obligation for that institution, that institution may attribute an exposure value of zero to that contingent obligation.

3 . An institution acting as a clearing member may apply a shorter margin period of risk when calculating the own funds requirement for its exposures to a client in accordance with the Internal Model Method. The margin period of risk applied by the institution shall not be less than five days.

4 . An institution acting as a clearing member may multiply its EAD by a scalar when calculating the own funds requirement for its exposures to a client in accordance with the Mark-to-Market Method, the Standardised Method or the Original Exposure Method. The scalars that the institutions may apply are the following:

( a ) 0,71 for a margin period of risk of five days;

( b ) 0,77 for a margin period of risk of six days;

( c ) 0,84 for a margin period of risk of seven days;

( d ) 0,89 for a margin period of risk of eight days;

( e ) 0,95 for a margin period of risk of nine days;

( f ) 1 for a margin period of risk of ten days or more.

5 .[F1The FCA and the PRA may each make technical standards] to specify the margin periods of risk that institutions may use for the purposes of paragraphs 3 and 4.

When developing those draft regulatory technical standards, [F2the FCA or the PRA (as the case may be) must] apply the following principles:

( a ) it shall define the margin period of risk for each of the types of contracts and transactions listed in Article 301(1);

( b ) the margin periods of risk to be defined in point (a) shall reflect the close-out period of the contracts and transactions referred to in that point.

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