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Nominal amount cannot be negative (F 09.02, EBA rule v3928_s)

A blocking check in the financial reporting return (FINREP 9), on template F 09.02, loan commitments, financial guarantees and other commitments received.

The rule in plain words

Nominal amount cannot be negative.

EBA checks it for 14 rows, from loan commitments received (0010) to households (0210). That makes 14 checks. A failure names the one that failed.

How the Line4 Check report words itShow

The first of its checks, word for word as the report shows it when it fails. The others read the same, with their own column, row or sheet.

Nominal amount: Loan commitments received >= 0

What to do if your filing fails it

  1. 01Open the template below and find the cells the rule reads.
  2. 02Look for a value with the wrong sign in these cells, such as an amount entered as a negative number.
  3. 03EBA compares the values exactly here: there is no rounding tolerance.
  4. 04It runs only when your filing indicators mark F 09.02 as reported.
  5. 05This is a blocking check. A filing that fails it is normally rejected, so fix it before you submit.

The cells it reads

Loan commitments, financial guarantees and other commitments received (F 09.02)

Rows

  • 0010Loan commitments received
  • 0020Central banks
  • 0030General governments
  • 0040Credit institutions
  • 0050Other financial corporations
  • 0060Non-financial corporations
  • 0070Households
  • 0150Other Commitments Received
  • 0160Central banks
  • 0170General governments
  • 0180Credit institutions
  • 0190Other financial corporations
  • 0200Non-financial corporations
  • 0210Households

Column

  • 0020Nominal amount

A worked example

The first of its checks, with simple numbers.

What the rule then expects

Loan commitments received, nominal amount must then be at least 0.

0Passes
-100Fails

A file that reports 0 passes. One that reports -100 fails, by 100.

The numbers are illustrative.

Show the rule as writtenShow

EBA's formula, as written out for the first of its checks. Cells are written as {template, row, column, sheet}.

{F_09.02,r0010,c0020,} >= 0

The next five:

{F_09.02,r0020,c0020,} >= 0{F_09.02,r0030,c0020,} >= 0{F_09.02,r0040,c0020,} >= 0{F_09.02,r0050,c0020,} >= 0{F_09.02,r0060,c0020,} >= 0

And 8 more, the same formula for the other cells it covers.

Every FINREP 9 rule, by template

Checks like this one, run at the point of submission, are the first step to real-time supervision.