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Short-term exercise (STE) additional supervisory information

A regulatory return listed by the European Central Bank, Banking Supervision (ECB Banking Supervision), European Union.

Additional supervisory information the ECB collects directly from the banks it supervises, so that in the context of the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) it can develop risk-specific quantitative tools to estimate the own funds required to cover risks or elements of risks that the EBA's harmonised COREP and FINREP returns do not capture in the detail the ECB needs for a given bank. Source

Official title: ECB Short term exercise (STE) - Reporting templates

The facts

Who files
Significant institutions the ECB directly supervises. The full Annex 1 and Annex 2 package is for entities at the highest level of consolidation, entities responsible for compliance with prudential requirements on a (sub-)consolidated basis, and subsidiaries classified for SREP purposes as 'targeted'; the lighter Annex 3 package is for subsidiaries classified as 'proportionate' (minor). Source
How often
'At recurring intervals', as the ECB's own wording puts it; no single frequency (for example quarterly or annual) is stated on the page read. Source
Deadline
Not stated on the page read. Source
Format
Other. Reporting templates with related instructions, issued as three annexes; the file format accepted for submission is not stated on the page read. Source
How it is filed
The format above is what the library records; what could not be verified is on the ECB Banking Supervision's page.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Capital

Templates (3)

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

  • Requested information (Annex 1)
  • Reporting instructions (Annex 2)
  • Reporting package for proportionate subsidiaries (Annex 3)

Annex 2's instructions complement the templates in Annex 1 and Annex 3; it is a set of instructions rather than a fourth data template. Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. No published validation rules specific to the STE templates were found on the page read. Source

Public data

Published only added up across firms. The ECB publishes annual aggregate SREP results (for example the 2025 aggregate results) and Pillar 2 Requirement (P2R) and Pillar 2 Guidance (P2G) figures for the banks it supervises directly, drawing on the SREP as a whole rather than naming the STE return as their specific source. Source

Where it is published (Web pages and reports)

  • SREP aggregate results, Pillar 2 Requirement and Pillar 2 Guidance

    Added up across firms · Web pages and reports

    Once a year the ECB publishes a summary of SREP results for all the banks it supervises directly, including the Pillar 2 Requirement (the extra capital each bank needs to cover the risks it faces) and Pillar 2 Guidance (the capital buffer it expects banks to hold to withstand stress). Source

Official documents (1)

The ECB Banking Supervision's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

  • ECB Short term exercise (STE) - Reporting templates

    List of returns · HTML

    Fetched and read in full; no SHA-256 is recorded because an online recheck on the same day returned a different hash at the same byte size, so the page is not byte-stable across requests.

Sources

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

Knowing exactly what is collected, in what format and under which rules is the first step to real-time supervision. Line4 builds SupTech software for financial regulators that runs checks like these as each return arrives.

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Source: European Central Bank, Banking Supervision, https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; the ECB does not endorse this library.

Last checked 13 November 2026.