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Ring-fencing: excluded activities and prohibitions (RFB008)

A regulatory return listed by the Bank of England (PRA), banks, United Kingdom.

Reports transactions that fall under the exceptions to the ring-fencing excluded activities and prohibitions, such as risk management and collateral transactions. It is one of the eight ring-fencing data items (RFB001 to RFB008) in the Regulatory Reporting Part. Source

Official title: RFB008 Excluded activities and prohibitions

The facts

Who files
Ring-fenced bodies; those in a sub-consolidation group also report at sub-consolidation group level, adding up gross values without netting intragroup transactions (rule 7.1 note 32). Source
How often
Annually, calendar year (rule 7.2). Source
Deadline
45 business days after the year end (rule 7.3). The first submission covers the period from the date the firm became subject to the Ring-fenced Bodies Part. Source
Format
XBRL-XML. XBRL instance on the Bank of England Banking taxonomy, entry point RFB008 (structural_reform/2021-07-31). The PRA says most Regulatory Reporting Part reports are filed through RegData. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the PRA: BEEDS (Bank of England Electronic Data Submission portal); RegData (Financial Conduct Authority). See how firms file with the PRA.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Ring-fencing

Templates (11)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the PRA's code in brackets.

  • Header info (SR800.00.03)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Risk management transactions (SR808.01.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Collateral transactions (SR808.02.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Dealing in shares and debentures (SR808.03.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Exposures relating to own originated securitisation and covered bonds, and third-party issued covered bonds (SR808.04.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Transactions with central banks (SR808.05.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Customer derivatives (SR808.06.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Trade finance (SR808.07.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Exposures to conduits and infrastructure finance vehicles (SR808.08.08)
  • Excluded activities and prohibitions. Exposures to relevant financial institutions relating to pension liability (SR808.09.08)
  • Technical table (SR99.01.01)

Codes and names are the template groups of entry point RFB008 in the Bank of England Banking taxonomy v4.1.1 (module presentation linkbase and table-group labels). The code is the template code plus a version suffix. Source

Validation rules

61 rules, as counted from the PRA's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: Excel rule list with an expression column and severity per entry point; rules marked Include in XBRL are also XBRL formula assertions in the taxonomy package.

The rules, on bankofengland.co.uk

How they were counted

Rows in sheet 'structural_reform' of 'Bank of England Banking Taxonomy Validations Ringfencing v4.1.1.xlsx' (inside the validations ZIP, release 4.1.1) whose 'Severity and modules' column names RFB008. 61 rules: 61 active (Deactivated = no), 57 marked Include in XBRL = yes; 25 errors and 36 warnings. A rule shared by several entry points is counted once for each.

Counts are in the PRA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No publication of this data, firm by firm or added up, was found on the Bank of England pages read. The PRA does not publish individual firms' returns. Source

Official documents (12)

The PRA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.