Article 54 Authorisation and designation to provide banking-type ancillary services

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1.  A CSD shall not itself provide any banking-type ancillary services set out in Section C of the Annex unless it has obtained an additional authorisation to provide such services in accordance with this Article.

2. A CSD that intends to settle the cash payments for all or part of its securities settlement systems through its own accounts in accordance with Article 40(2) or that otherwise intends to provide any banking-type ancillary services referred to in paragraph 1 shall be authorised under the conditions specified in paragraphs 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9a of this Article.

2a. A CSD that intends to settle the cash payments for all or part of its securities settlement systems through accounts opened with a credit institution or with a CSD in accordance with Article 40(2) shall be authorised, under the conditions specified in paragraphs 3 to 9a of this Article, to designate for that purpose one or more:

(a) credit institutions authorised in accordance with Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU; or

(b) CSDs authorised to provide banking-type ancillary services pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article.

An authorisation to designate credit institutions or CSDs in accordance with the first subparagraph shall only be used with regard to the banking-type ancillary services referred to in Section C of the Annex for the settlement of the cash payments for all or part of the securities settlement systems of the CSD seeking to use the banking-type ancillary services, and not to carry out any other activities.

The credit institutions and CSDs authorised to provide banking-type ancillary services designated in accordance with the first subparagraph shall be considered to be settlement agents.

3.  Where a CSD seeks to provide any banking-type ancillary services from within the same legal entity as the legal entity operating the securities settlement system the authorisation referred to in paragraph 2 shall be granted only where the following conditions are met:

(a) the CSD is authorised as a credit institution as provided for in Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU;

(b) the CSD meets the prudential requirements laid down in Article 59(1), (3) and (4) and the supervisory requirements laid down in Article 60;

(c) the authorisation referred to in point (a) of this subparagraph is used only to provide the banking-type ancillary services referred to in Section C of the Annex and not to carry out any other activities;

(d) the CSD is subject to an additional capital surcharge that reflects the risks, including credit and liquidity risks, resulting from the provision of intra-day credit, inter alia, to the participants in a securities settlement system or other users of CSD services;

(e) the CSD reports at least monthly to the competent authority and annually as a part of its public disclosure as required under Part Eight of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on the extent and management of intra-day liquidity risk in accordance with point (j) of Article 59(4) of this Regulation;

(f) the CSD has submitted to the competent authority an adequate recovery plan to ensure continuity of its critical operations, including in situations where liquidity or credit risk crystallises as a result of the provision of banking-type ancillary services.

In the case of conflicting provisions laid down in this Regulation, in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 and in Directive 2013/36/EU, the CSD referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph shall comply with the stricter requirements on prudential supervision. The regulatory technical standards referred to in Articles 47 and 59 of this Regulation shall clarify the cases of conflicting provisions.

4. Where all of the following conditions are met, a CSD may be authorised to designate a credit institution to provide banking-type ancillary services for the settlement of the cash payments for all or part of that CSD’s securities settlement systems pursuant to paragraph 2a, point (a):

(a) the credit institution meets the prudential requirements laid down in Article 59(1), (3) and (4) and the supervisory requirements laid down in Article 60;

(b) the credit institution does not itself carry out any of the core services referred to in Section A of the Annex;

(c) the authorisation under Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU is used only to provide the banking-type ancillary services referred to in Section C of the Annex for the settlement of the cash payments for all or part of the securities settlement systems of the CSD seeking to use the banking-type ancillary services, and not to carry out any other activities;

(d) the credit institution is subject to an additional capital surcharge that reflects the risks, including credit and liquidity risks, resulting from the provision of intra-day credit, inter alia, to the participants in a securities settlement system or other users of CSD services;

(e) the credit institution reports at least monthly to the competent authority and discloses to the public annually as a part of its public disclosure as required under Part Eight of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on the extent and management of intra-day liquidity risk in accordance with Article 59(4), point (j), of this Regulation; and

(f) the credit institution has submitted to the competent authority an adequate recovery plan to ensure continuity of its critical operations, including in situations where liquidity or credit risk materialises as a result of the provision of banking-type ancillary services from within a separate legal entity.

4a. Where a CSD seeks to designate a credit institution or a CSD in accordance with paragraph 2a to settle the cash payments for all or part of its securities settlement systems, such cash payments shall not be in a currency of the country where the designating CSD is established.

5. Paragraph 4 shall not apply to credit institutions referred to in paragraph 2a, point (a), and paragraph 4a shall not apply to credit institutions and CSDs referred to in paragraph 2a, that offer to settle the cash payments for all or part of the CSD’s securities settlement systems, if the total value of such cash settlement through accounts opened with those credit institutions and CSDs, as applicable, calculated over a one-year period, does not exceed the threshold determined in accordance with paragraph 9.

The competent authority shall monitor at least once per year that the threshold referred to in the first subparagraph is respected. The competent authority shall transmit its findings together with the underlying data to ESMA and EBA. The competent authority shall also transmit its findings to the members of the ESCB. Without prejudice to Article 40(1), where the competent authority determines that the threshold has been exceeded, the competent authority shall require the CSD concerned to seek authorisation in accordance with paragraph 2. The CSD concerned shall submit its application for authorisation within six months.

6. Where the competent authority considers that the exposure of one credit institution to the concentration of risks under Article 59(3) and (4) is not sufficiently mitigated, the competent authority may require a CSD to designate more than one credit institution or CSD referred to in paragraph 2a, or to designate a credit institution or a CSD referred to in paragraph 2a, in addition to providing services itself in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article.

7. A CSD authorised to provide any banking-type ancillary services and a credit institution designated in accordance with paragraph 2a, point (a), shall comply at all times with the conditions necessary for authorisation under this Regulation and shall, without delay, notify the competent authorities of any substantive changes affecting the conditions for authorisation.

8. EBA shall, in close cooperation with ESMA and the members of the ESCB, develop draft regulatory technical standards to determine the additional risk-based capital surcharge referred to in paragraph 3, point (d), and paragraph 4, point (d).

EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 18 June 2015.

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Power is delegated to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.

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9. EBA shall, in close cooperation with the members of the ESCB and ESMA, develop draft regulatory technical standards to determine the threshold referred to in paragraph 5 and accompanying appropriate risk management and prudential requirements to mitigate risks in relation to the designation of credit institutions in accordance with paragraph 2a. When developing those standards, EBA shall take into account the following:

(a) the implications for the market stability that could derive from a change of risk profile of CSDs and their participants, including the systemic importance of CSDs for the functioning of securities markets;

(b) the implications for the credit and liquidity risks for CSDs, for the designated credit institutions involved and for the CSD participants that result from the settlement of cash payments through accounts opened with credit institutions that are not subject to paragraph 4;

(c) the possibility for CSDs to settle cash payments in several currencies;

(d) the need to avoid both an unintended shift from settlement in central bank money to settlement in commercial bank money and disincentives to the efforts of CSDs to settle in central bank money; and

(e) the need to ensure a level playing field amongst CSDs in the Union.

EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 17 January 2025.

Power is delegated to the Commission to supplement this Regulation by adopting the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.