31 August 2015

ECB publishes Guideline amending the General Documentation on monetary policy implementation

Counterparty eligibility assessment will take into account information on capital, leverage and liquidity ratios. The document also added a new category of assets as eligible collateral.

The new Guideline introduces some changes to the monetary policy implementation framework:

First, the provisions on counterparty eligibility have been revised in light of recent legislative developments in the implementation of the Banking Union. In particular, the provisions now state that the Eurosystem may take into account in its eligibility assessment information on capital, leverage and liquidity ratios of individual institutions.

Second, a new class of eligible assets, namely the “ non‑marketable debt instruments backed by eligible credit claims (DECCs)”, has been introduced in the Eurosystem collateral framework. DECCs are debt instruments that: (a) are backed by credit claims that are also eligible as collateral with the Eurosystem on an individual basis; and (b) that have a dual recourse feature, namely to: (i) the credit institution that is the originator of the underlying credit claims; and to (ii) the underlying credit claims themselves. It should be noted that, in the initial stage, only the domestic use of DECCs is envisaged. This restriction will remain in place until the Eurosystem fully develops the procedures for the cross-border use of DECCs.

Full press release

Guideline on the implementation of the Eurosystem monetary policy framework

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