PART 1Introductory provisions

Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations—

F1“appropriate regulator” means—

(a)

the PRA, in relation to PRA-authorised persons and financial holding companies and mixed financial holding companies approved or designated by the PRA under—

  1. (i)

    Part 12B of FSMA, or

  2. (ii)

    regulation 5 of the Financial Holding Companies (Approval etc.) and Capital Requirements (Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential Measures) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020;

(b)

the FCA in relation to any other person;

“the Bank” means the Bank of England;

F2“capital conservation buffer” means—

(a)

in relation to a PRA-authorised person, the capital conservation buffer that the person must calculate in accordance with Chapter 2 of the Capital Buffers Part of the PRA rulebook;

(b)

in relation to a parent financial holding company and a parent mixed financial holding company, a capital conservation buffer the holding company is required to calculate under rules made by the PRA under section 192V of FSMA;

(c)

in relation to a person to whom chapter 10 of the FCA's Prudential sourcebook for Investment Firms applies, the capital conservation buffer that the person must calculate in accordance with section 10.2 of the sourcebook;

F3“the capital requirements regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and as amended from time to time thereafter;

F4“combined buffer requirement” means the total Common Equity Tier 1 capital required to meet the requirements for the capital conservation buffer extended by the following, as applicable—

(a)

an institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer;

(b)

a G-SII buffer;

(c)

an O-SII buffer;

(d)

a systemic risk buffer;

“common equity tier 1 capital” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 2 of the capital requirements regulation;

“countercyclical capital buffer” has the same meaning as in Articles 130, and 135 to 140, of the capital requirements directive;

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“FPC” means the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England M1;

“FSMA” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 M2;

“G-SII” means a global systemically important institution M3;

F6“G-SII buffer” means the own funds that a G-SII is required to maintain in accordance with Part 4 of these Regulations, corresponding to the sub-category to which the G-SII is allocated and consisting of and supplementary to the Common Equity Tier 1 capital;

F7“institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer” means—

(a)

in relation to a PRA-authorised person, the countercyclical capital buffer that the person must calculate in accordance with Chapter 3 of the Capital Buffers Part of the PRA rulebook;

(b)

in relation to a parent financial holding company or a parent mixed financial holding company, a countercyclical capital buffer which the holding company is required to calculate under rules made by the PRA under section 192V of FSMA;

(c)

in relation to a person to whom chapter 10 of the FCA's Prudential sourcebook for Investment Firms applies, the countercyclical capital buffer that the person must calculate in accordance with section 10.3 of the sourcebook;

“O-SII” means other systemically important institution M4;

F8“O-SII buffer” has the meaning given in regulation 34ZA.

F9“parent financial holding company” and “parent mixed financial holding company” have the meanings given in section 192O(2) of FSMA;

F10 “systemic risk buffer” has the meaning set out in regulation 34C(1) of these Regulations;

(2)

Except as provided by paragraph (1)—

(a)

any expression used in these Regulations which is defined in Article 4 (definitions) of the capital requirements regulation or Article 3 (definitions) of the capital requirements directive has the meaning which it is given in that Article M5;

(b)

any other expression used in these Regulations which is defined in section 417 (definitions) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 M6 has the meaning given by that section.

F11(2A)

In these Regulations—

(a)

a reference to the PRA rulebook is to the rulebook published by the Prudential Regulation Authority containing rules made by that Authority under FSMA as the rulebook has effect on IP completion day;

(b)

any reference to a sourcebook is to a sourcebook in the Handbook of Rules and Guidance published by the Financial Conduct Authority containing rules made by that Authority under FSMA as the sourcebook has effect on IP completion day.

F12(2A)

Any reference in these Regulations to any EU regulation, EU decision or EU tertiary legislation (within the meaning of section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) is, unless the contrary intention appears, to be treated as a reference to that EU regulation, EU decision or EU tertiary legislation as it F13forms part of retained EU law.

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