1 min readWarningEBA reporting framework 4.2Updated 10 November 2026

Accumulated impairment: financial assets at amortised cost, credit-impaired assets (Stage 3) must equal the sum of its two parts (EBA rule v7844_m)

A warning in the financial reporting return (FINREP 9), on templates F 04.04.1, breakdown of financial assets by instrument and by counterparty sector: financial assets at amortised cost and F 18.00.b, information on performing and non-performing exposures (II).

The rule in plain words

For accumulated impairment: financial assets at amortised cost, credit-impaired assets (Stage 3) must equal debt securities, credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3) plus loans and advances, credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3).

How the Line4 Check report words itShow

Word for word as the report shows it when the rule fails.

F_18.00.B: Debt securities, Of which: Credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3) + F_18.00.B: Loans and advances, Of which: Credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3) = F_04.04.1: FINANCIAL ASSETS AT AMORTISED COST, Credit-impaired assets (Stage 3)

What to do if your filing fails it

  1. 01Open the templates below and find the cells the rule reads.
  2. 02Add up the parts in your file and compare the result with the total.
  3. 03If they differ, a part is missing, a value sits in the wrong row, or the total is out of date.
  4. 04EBA allows a small rounding difference, worked out from the decimals each value is reported with.
  5. 05It runs only when your filing indicators mark F 18.00 and F 04.04.1 as reported.
  6. 06This is a warning. It does not stop the filing on its own, but your authority may ask you to explain it.

The cells it reads

Breakdown of financial assets by instrument and by counterparty sector: financial assets at amortised cost (F 04.04.1)

Row

  • 0140FINANCIAL ASSETS AT AMORTISED COST

Column

  • 0070Credit-impaired assets (Stage 3)

Information on performing and non-performing exposures (II) (F 18.00.b)

Rows

  • 0010Debt securities
  • 0070Loans and advances

Column

  • 0951Of which: Credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3)

A worked example

The first of its checks, with simple numbers.

Illustrative values
Debt securities, credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3)1,200
Loans and advances, credit-impaired instruments (Stage 3)800
Together2,000
What the rule then expects

Financial assets at amortised cost, credit-impaired assets (Stage 3) must then be 2,000.

2,000Passes
2,100Fails

A file that reports 2,000 passes. One that reports 2,100 fails, by 100.

The numbers are illustrative, reported to the unit, so the rounding tolerance does not change the result.

Show the rule as writtenShow

EBA's formula. Cells are written as {template, row, column, sheet}.

sum({F_18.00.b,r0010,c0951,},{F_18.00.b,r0070,c0951,}) = {F_04.04.1,r0140,c0070,}

Every FINREP 9 rule, by template

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