CP13/6 - CRD IV for Investment Firms - Financial Conduct Authority

FCA 2013/xx
(a)
changes in its business, including:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
the acute risk to earnings posed by falling or volatile
income;
the broader risk of a firm’s business model or strategy
proving inappropriate due to macro-economic,
geopolitical, industry, regulatory or other factors; and
the risk that a firm may not be able to carry out its
business plan and desired strategy; and
(b)
its remuneration policy (see also the Remuneration Code which
applies to IFPRU investment firms and the detailed application
of which is set out in SYSC 19A.1).
(5) Pension obligation risk is the risk to a firm caused by its contractual or
other liabilities to, or with respect to, a pension scheme (whether
established for its employees or those of a related company or
otherwise). It also means the risk that the firm will make payments or
other contribution to, or with respect to, a pension scheme because of a
moral obligation or because the firm considers that it needs to do so for
some other reason.
(6) Interest-rate risk in the non-trading book means:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
risks related to the mismatch of re-pricing of assets and
liabilities and off balance sheet short- and long-term positions
(“re-pricing risk”);
risks arising from hedging exposure to one interest rate with
exposure to a rate which re-prices under slightly different
conditions (“basis risk”);
risk related to the uncertainties of occurrence of transactions,
for example, when expected future transactions do not equal
the actual transactions (“pipeline risk”); and
risks arising from consumers redeeming fixed rate products
when market rates change (“optionality risk”).
(7) Group risk is the risk that the financial position of a firm may be
adversely affected by its relationships (financial or non-financial) with
other entities in the same group or by risks which may affect the
financial position of the whole group, for example reputational
contagion.
2.2.9 G (1) This paragraph gives guidance on some of the terms used in the
overall Pillar 2 rule.
(2) In a narrow sense, business risk is the risk to a firm that it suffers
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