Glossary

The manual’s acronyms and terms, what they mean and where to read them in detail. The terms on one line mean the same thing.

Indicators

Term Also called Definition Read
EVE economic value of equity Present value of the certain flows only, discounted at their repricing date on the scenario’s curve. 3.2 Economic value of equity (EVE)
MV market value Present value of all flows, certain and uncertain, discounted at their payment date on the scenario’s curve. 3.1 Market value (MV)
NII net interest income, net interest margin, MNI, NIM, interest margin Undiscounted sum of the interest accrued over the 12 months after the reporting date. 3.3 Net interest income (NII)
ΔEVE, ΔNII sensitivity, variation Change in a metric: the scenario minus the base scenario (BASELINE). 3.4 Sensitivities and supervisory outlier test
Modified duration Sensitivity of EVE to a rate shock, computed from the UP_1_BP scenario. 3.5 Carrying amount and modified duration
Liquidity gap, rate gap Capital flows per time band, attached to their payment date (liquidity) or to their repricing date (rate). 3.7 Liquidity and interest rate gaps

Interest rate risk and scenarios

Term Also called Definition Read
IRRBB interest rate risk in the banking book The interest rate risk the application measures, under the EBA’s standard framework. IRRBB scenario
SOT supervisory outlier test Test of template J 01.00: it takes the worst variation of EVE and NII among the prescribed supervisory scenarios. 3.4 Sensitivities and supervisory outlier test
BASELINE base scenario The scenario with no shock, which the others are compared to. 3.4 Sensitivities and supervisory outlier test
Rate shock shock scenario, parallel, steepener, flattener Deformation applied to each point of each rate curve, under the EBA and Basel Committee framework. 1.2 Interest rate shock scenarios
Post-shock floor EBA floor Bound applied to each shocked rate: from −150 bp for immediate maturities up to 0% at 50 years. Post-shock floor
Constant balance sheet new production Assumption of the IRRBB scenario: positions reaching maturity within the horizon are renewed. 4.1 Constant balance sheet
Repricing refixing, rate reset Date on which the rate of a floating-rate capital is set again. 1.9 Repricing date of floating-rate principal
Certain flow, uncertain flow CERTAIN, UNCERTAIN Flow whose rate is already known, or still to be set. 1.8 Certainty of a cash flow
Time band time bucket, repricing band One of the EBA’s 19 repricing bands each flow is attached to. 1.12 Time buckets

Regulation and reporting

Term Also called Definition Read
EBA European Banking Authority The authority whose guidelines and IRRBB templates frame the calculation. EBA IRRBB Templates
J 01.00 to J 09.00 IRRBB templates, EBA templates The IRRBB regulatory templates the application fills in. EBA IRRBB Templates
FINREP financial reporting The regulatory financial reporting; its classification is used to sort accounts and fill in the templates. Classification
ALCO pack ALCO, ALM committee The ALM committee’s document, produced from a finished reporting generation, as a PDF or a PowerPoint. ALCO pack

Balance sheet, accounts and run-off

Term Also called Definition Read
Reporting date evaluationDate The date on which the situation is struck. Vocabulary
Carrying amount Balance sheet amount at the reporting date, per currency and FINREP class; it does not come from the flows. 3.5 Carrying amount and modified duration
Off-balance sheet OBS, HB Type of an account, carried by the classification. Tags and balance sheet labels
Income statement PNL, income statement, profit and loss Type of an account, carried by the classification. Tags and balance sheet labels
Outflow model OutflowStrategy, run-off Convention by which balances with no maturity run off. Run-off models
NMD non-maturity deposits, sight deposits Deposits with no contractual maturity, reported per category in templates J 08.00 and J 09.00. J 08.00 / J 09.00 — Relevant parameters (non-maturity deposits)

Curves and conventions

Term Also called Definition Read
Rate curve curve, ESTR, EURIBOR, EONIA Rates per maturity, read to project and discount the flows. Rate curves
PAR curve swap rate, par quotation Curve quoted in swap rates. Curves quoted in swap rates (PAR)
DF discount factor The factor that brings a future flow back to its present value. 1.5 Discount factor
Forward rate Rate read on a curve for a future period. 1.4 Forward rates
Day count Exact/360, ACT Convention that converts days into a fraction of a year. 1.6 Day-count conventions (year fraction)
Accrued coupon accrued interest Part of the coupon earned at a given date. Accrued coupon