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EBA has launched today a public consultation on its draft Guidelines on the criteria related to simplicity, standardisation and transparency and additional specific criteria for on-balance-sheet securitisations (so-called STS criteria).

With the introduction of STS criteria for on-balance-sheet securitisations in the Securitisation Regulation, on-balance-sheet securitisations are now eligible for preferential risk-weight treatment under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).
The draft Guidelines provide a harmonised interpretation and clarify aspects with a potential level of ambiguity, thus both ensuring a harmonised understanding of the criteria, but also a harmonised implementation in terms of capital requirements.
The Consultation Paper is composed of two sections. The main section includes the Draft Guidelines for on-balance-sheet securitisations. The second section includes the targeted amendments to the Guidelines for non-ABCP and ABCP securitisation to ensure that the interpretation provided by the EBA is, where appropriate, the same and consistent across all three sets of guidelines.
The consultation will end on 7 July 2023.