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IFRS and Basel 2
Ian MichaelAccounting and Auditing Policy Department
Financial Services Authority
Contact: [email protected]
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IFRS and Basel 2: Key themes
• Widespread adoption of IFRS
• Interaction of IFRS with existing regulatory rules
• Interaction of IFRS with Basel 2
• Disclosure requirements
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Widespread adoption of IFRS
• IFRS increasingly becoming global standards
• Adoption in EU from 2005 (mandatory for group accounts of listed companies)
• Now used in nearly 100 countries
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EU Experience
• Adoption of IFRS appears to have gone quite smoothly, even though differences from national GAAPs often significant
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Typical differences between IFRS and national GAAPs relevant to financial sector
• Valuation – especially use of fair values
• Classification of financial instruments
• Hedge accounting
• Consolidation
• Netting
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Interaction of IFRS with existing regulatory rules
• Definition of regulatory capital
• ‘Prudential filters’
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Definition of regulatory capital
• IFRS (IAS 32) will sometimes indicate a different split between equity and liabilities than national GAAP
• However, definition of regulatory capital driven to a considerable extent by the Basel Accord
• Note that regulatory capital includes some elements which are unquestionably accounting liabilities, eg subordinated debt
• However, impact of IFRS on measured equity is the key reason for prudential filters
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Prudential filters (1)
• Cash flow hedges. Under IAS 39, cumulative fair value gains/losses on hedging instruments are recognised directly in equity, to the extent hedges are effective
But such gains/losses excluded from regulatory capital
• Application of fair value option to an institution’s liabilities. Gains/losses arising from changes in an institution’s own credit risk are excluded from regulatory capital
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Prudential filters (2)
• Available – for – sale instruments
– loans
– debt securities
– equities
• Own – use and investment properties
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Two important areas of difference between prudential and accounting treatments
• Securitisations
• Netting
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The Fair Value Option (FVO)
• No prudential filter, but…
• Supervisory Guidance on use of FVO by banks
• Guidelines and recommended practices address:(a) Sound risk management and control processes for
banks that utilise the FVO;(b) Supervisory consideration of banks’ use of the FVO
in the context of evaluating the adequacy of risk management and regulatory capital
• Approach to FVO needs to be set in context of a supervisor’s overall strategy towards an institution
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Interaction of IFRS with Basel 2
• Most significant issue is the relationship between accounting loan loss provisions, which under IAS 39 are based on an incurred loss model, and the Basel 2 concept of expected loss
• This is discussed in draft Basel paper on ‘Sound credit risk assessment and valuation for loans’
• Commonality of methodologies and data for credit risk assessment, accounting and capital adequacy purposes
• Nonetheless, accounting and Basel 2 numbers may differ
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Disclosure requirements
• Enhanced transparency and its contribution to market discipline has been a major theme in prudential regulation, and accounting, in recent years
• Prudential response: Pillar 3 of Basel 2
• Accounting response: IFRS 7 – Financial Instruments Disclosures
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Relationship between Pillar 3 and IFRS 7
• May have different scope
• Audit assurance probably higher for IFRS disclosures
• Pillar 3 emphasises credit risk model embedded within Basel 2, and in some other respects is more prescriptive
• So Pillar 3 and IFRS are complementary