BNP Paribas has received the notification by the European Central Bank of the outcome of the 2021 Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP), which states the capital requirements on a consolidated basis for the Group.
The Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) requirement that the Group has to respect as from 1st March 2022 on a consolidated basis is 9.27% (excluding the Pillar 2 guidance), which includes 1.50% for the G-SIB buffer, 2.50% for the Conservation buffer, 0.74% for the Pillar 2 requirement and including 0.03% of countercyclical buffer. The requirement for the Tier 1 Capital is 11.02%. The requirement for the Total Capital is 13.35% (of which 1.32% for the Pillar 2 requirement).
The Pillar 2 requirement of 1.32% includes an add-on of 0.07% related to non-performing exposures on aged loans granted before 26 April 2019. The Group books provisions on these non-performing exposures based on an analysis of the intrinsic risk of loss according to applicable accounting standards and the latter could differ from the new supervisory expectations based on a fixed calendar of progressive provisioning1. Excluding this add-on, the Pillar 2 requirement remains unchanged at 1.25% compared to SREP 2020.
The Group is well above these regulatory requirements.
1. Addendum to the ECB Guidance to banks on non-performing loan published in March 2018 and Communication on supervisory coverage expectations for NPEs published in August 2019
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