Article 254
Treatment of securitisation positions in a second loss tranche or better in an ABCP programme
Subject to the availability of a more favourable treatment for unrated liquidity facilities under Article 255 an institution may apply to securitisation positions meeting the following conditions a risk weight that is the greater of 100 % or the highest of the risk weights that would be applied to any of the securitised exposures under Chapter 2 by an institution holding the exposures:
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(a) |
the securitisation position shall be in a tranche which is economically in a second loss position or better in the securitisation and the first loss tranche shall provide meaningful credit enhancement to the second loss tranche; |
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the quality of the securitisation position shall be equivalent to credit quality step 3 under the Standardised Approach or better; |
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(c) |
the securitisation position shall be held by an institution which does not hold a position in the first loss tranche. |