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S.08.01 — Open derivatives

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S.08.01 — Open derivatives

General comments:

This section relates to the quarterly and annual submission of information for groups.

The derivatives categories referred to in this template are the ones defined in Annex IV — Assets Categories of this Regulation and references to CIC codes refer to Annex VI — CIC table of this Regulation. This template contains an item–by–item list of derivatives held directly by the group (i.e. not on a look–through basis), classifiable as asset categories A to F.

This template covers derivatives traded on a stock exchange or equivalent centralised market, as well as derivatives traded over-the-counter.

When a derivative is traded on a stock exchange or equivalent centralised market, the counterparty is that a stock exchange or equivalent centralised market and not the endcounterparty, as is the case for derivatives traded over-the-counter.

Derivatives are considered assets if their Solvency II value is positive or zero. They are considered liabilities if their Solvency II value is negative. Both derivatives considered as assets or considered as liabilities shall be included.

Information shall include all derivatives contracts that existed during the reporting period and were not closed prior to the reporting reference date.

If there are frequent trades on the same derivative, resulting in multiple open positions, the derivative can be reported on an aggregated or net basis, as long as all the relevant characteristics are common and following the specific instruction for each relevant item.

Items shall be reported with positive values unless otherwise stated in the respective instructions.

A derivative is a financial instrument or other contract with all three of the following characteristics:

  • a) Its value changes in response to the change in a specified interest rate, financial instrument price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates, credit rating or credit index, or other variable, provided in the case of a non–financial variable that the variable is not specific to a party to the contract (sometimes called the ‘underlying’).
  • b) It requires no initial net investment or an initial net investment that is smaller than would be required for other types of contracts that would be expected to have a similar response to changes in market factors.
  • c) It is settled at a future date.

This template comprises two tables: Information on positions held and Information on derivatives.

On the table Information on positions held, each derivative shall be reported separately in as many rows as needed in order to properly fill in all non-monetary variables, requested in that table. If for the same derivative two values can be attributed to one variable, then this derivative needs to be reported in more than one line.

In particular, for derivatives that have more than a pair of currencies, it shall be split into the pair components and reported in different rows.

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On the table Information on derivative, each derivative shall be reported separately, with one row for each derivative, filling in all variables requested in that table.

Where method 1 is used exclusively, the reporting shall reflect the consolidated position of the derivatives net of intra–group transactions held within the scope of group supervision. The reporting shall be made as follows:

  • Item ‘Legal name of the undertaking C0010’ and ‘Identification code of the undertaking — C0020’ shall not be reported;
  • The derivatives held by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings or insurance holding companies or mixed–financial holding companies shall be reported item by item;
  • The derivatives held by undertakings consolidated in accordance with Article 335, paragraph 1, (a), (b) and (c) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 shall be reported item by item;
  • The derivatives held by other related undertakings shall not be included

Where method 2 is used exclusively, the reporting shall include the detailed list of the derivatives held by the participating undertakings, the insurance holding companies or mixed– financial holding companies and subsidiaries, regardless of the proportional share used. The reporting shall be made as follows:

  • Item ‘Legal name of the undertaking C0010’ and ‘Identification code of the undertaking — C0020’ shall be reported;
  • The derivatives held by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings or insurance holding companies or mixed–financial holding companies shall be reported item by item;
  • The derivatives held by insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies, ancillary services undertakings and special purpose vehicle which are subsidiaries (European Economic Area, equivalent non–European Economic Area and non–equivalent non–European Economic Area) shall be reported item by item by undertaking;
  • The derivatives held by other related undertakings shall not be included.

Where a combination of methods 1 and 2 is used, one part of the reporting shall reflect the consolidated position of the derivatives, net of intra–group transactions held within the scope of group supervision which must be reported and the other part of the reporting shall include the detailed list of the derivatives held by the participating undertakings, the insurance holding companies or mixed–financial holding companies and subsidiaries, regardless of the proportional share used.

The first part of the reporting shall be made as follows:

  • Item ‘Legal name of the undertaking C0010’ and ‘Identification code of the undertaking — C0020’ shall not be reported;
  • The derivatives held by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings or insurance holding companies or mixed–financial holding companies shall be reported item by item;
  • The derivatives held by undertakings consolidated in accordance with Article 335, paragraph 1, (a), (b) and (c) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 shall be reported item by item;

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– The derivatives held by other related undertakings shall not be included*.*

The second part of the reporting shall be made as follows:

  • Item ‘Legal name of the undertaking C0010’ and ‘Identification code of the undertaking — C0020’ shall be reported;
  • The derivatives held by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings or insurance holding companies or mixed–financial holding companies under method 2 shall be reported item by item;
  • The derivatives held by insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies, ancillary services undertakings and special purpose vehicle which are subsidiaries under method 2 (European Economic Area, equivalent non–European Economic Area and non–equivalent non–European Economic Area) shall be reported item by item by undertaking;
  • The derivatives held by other related undertakings under method 2 shall not be included.

The information regarding the External rating (C0290) and Nominated ECAI (C0300) may be limited (not reported) in the following circumstances:

  • a) through a decision of the national supervisory authority under Article 254(2) of the Directive 2009/138/EC; or
  • b) through a decision of the national supervisory authority in the cases where the insurance and reinsurance undertakings have in place outsourcing arrangements in the area of investments that lead to this specific information not being available directly to the undertaking.
ITEM INSTRUCTIONS
Information
on positions
held
C0010 Legal name of
the undertaking
Identify the legal name of the undertaking within the scope
of group supervision that holds the derivative.
This item shall be filled in only when it relates to
derivatives held by participating undertakings, insurance
holding companies, mixed–financial holding companies
and subsidiaries under deduction and aggregation method.
C0020 Identification
code of the
undertaking
Identification code by this order of priority:

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) mandatory if existing;

Specific code in case of absence of LEI code.

Specific code:

For
EEA
regulated
undertakings
other
than
insurance and reinsurance undertakings within the
scope of group supervision: identification code
used
in
the
local
market,
attributed
by
the
undertaking’s competent supervisory authority;

For non–EEA undertakings and non–regulated
undertakings
within
the
scope
of
group
supervision, identification code will be provided by
the group. When allocating an identification code
to each non–EEA or non–regulated undertaking,
the group should comply with the following format
in a consistent manner:
identification code of the parent undertaking + ISO
3166–1 alpha–2 code of the country of the
undertaking + 5 digits
C0030 Type of code of
the ID of the
undertaking
Type of ID Code used for the ‘Identification code of the
undertaking’ item. One of the options in the following
closed list shall be used:
1 —
LEI
2 —
Specific code
C0040 Derivative ID
Code
Derivative ID code using the following priority:

ISO 6166 code of ISIN when available

Other recognised codes (e.g.: CUSIP, Bloomberg
Ticker, Reuters RIC)

Code attributed by the undertaking, when the
options above are not available, and must be
C0041 Unique
Transaction
Identifiers
consistent over time
Identify the Trade IDs used in the trade reports to trade
repositories according to Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of
the European Parliament and of the Council on OTC
derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories.
As many Trade IDs as needed to build the position being
reported should be reported in this item. The trade IDs
shall be reported separated by commas.
This item shall be reported with “No ID” when the
derivative not in the scope of Regulation (EU) No
648/2012.
C0050 Derivative ID
Code type
Type of ID Code used for the ‘Derivative ID Code’ item.
One of the options in the following closed list shall be
used:
1 —
ISO/6166 for ISIN
2 —
CUSIP (The Committee on Uniform Securities
Identification Procedures number assigned by the CUSIP
Service Bureau for U.S. and Canadian companies)
3 —
SEDOL (Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the
London Stock Exchange)
4 —
WKN (Wertpapier Kenn–Nummer, the alphanumeric
German identification number)
5 —
Bloomberg Ticker (Bloomberg letters code that
identify a company’s securities)
6 —
BBGID (The Bloomberg Global ID)
7 —
Reuters RIC (Reuters instrument code)
8 —
FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier)
9 —
Other code by members of the Association of
National Numbering Agencies
99 —
Code attributed by the undertaking
C0060 Portfolio Distinction between life, non–life, shareholder’s funds,
general (no split) and ring-fenced funds.
Underlying derivatives of life technical provisions shall be
assigned to life portfolio and underlying derivatives of
non-life technical provisions shall be assigned to non-life
portfolio (by applying the available most precise split).
One of the options in the following closed list shall be
used:
1 —
Life
2 —
Non–life
3 —
Ring fenced funds
4 —
Other internal fund
5 —
Shareholders’ funds
6 —
General
The split is not mandatory, unless otherwise required by
the national supervisory authority,
except for identifying
ring fenced funds, but shall be reported if the undertaking
uses it internally. When an undertaking does not apply a
split ‘general’ shall be used.
C0070 Fund number Applicable to derivatives held in ring fenced funds or other
internal funds defined at national level, in particular
regarding funds (asset portfolios) supporting life products.
Number or code which is attributed by the undertaking,
corresponding to the unique number or code assigned to
each fund. This number or code has to be consistent over
time and shall be used to identify the same funds in other
templates (e.g. in S.06.02). It shall not be re–used for a
different fund.
C0080 Derivatives
held in unit
linked and
index linked
contracts
Identify the derivatives that are held by unit linked and
index linked contracts. One of the options in the following
closed list shall be used:
1 —
Unit–linked or index–linked
2 —
Neither unit–linked nor index–linked
C0090 Instrument
underlying the
derivative
ID Code of the instrument (asset or liability) underlying the
derivative contract. This item is to be provided only for
derivatives that have a single or multiple underlying
instruments in the undertakings’ portfolio.
An index is
considered a single instrument and shall be reported.
Identification code of the instrument underlying the
derivative using the following priority:

ISO 6166 code of ISIN when available

Other recognised codes (e.g.: CUSIP, Bloomberg
Ticker, Reuters RIC)

Code
attributed
by
the
undertaking
for
the
underlying instrument when the options above are
not available and must be unique and consistent
over time for that instrument;

‘Multiple assets/liabilities’, if the underlying assets
or liabilities are more than one.
If the underlying instrument is an index, then the code of
the index shall be reported.
C0100 Type of code of
asset or liability
underlying the
derivative
Type of ID Code used for the ‘Instrument underlying the
derivative’ item. One of the options in the following closed
list shall be used:
1 —
ISO/6166 for ISIN
2 —
CUSIP
(The
Committee
on
Uniform
Securities
Identification
Procedures
number
assigned
by
the
CUSIP
Service
Bureau
for
U.S.
and Canadian companies)
3 —
SEDOL
(Stock Exchange Daily Official List
for the London Stock Exchange)
4 —
WKN
(Wertpapier
Kenn–Nummer,
the
alphanumeric German identification number)
5 —
Bloomberg Ticker (Bloomberg letters code
that identify a company’s securities)
6 —
BBGID (The Bloomberg Global ID)
7 —
Reuters RIC (Reuters instrument code)
8 —
FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier)
9 —
Other code by members of the Association of
National Numbering Agencies
99 —
Code attributed by the undertaking in case
that none of the above options are available. This
option shall also be used for the cases of ‘Multiple
assets/liabilities’ and indexes.
C0110 Use of
derivative
Describe the use of the derivative (micro / macro hedge,
efficient portfolio management).
Micro hedge refers to derivatives covering a single
financial instrument (asset or liability), forecasted
transaction or other liability.
Macro hedge refers to derivatives covering a set of
financial instruments (assets or liabilities), forecasted
transactions or other liabilities.
Efficient portfolio management refers usually to operations
where the manager wishes to improve a portfolio’ income
by exchanging a (lower) cash–flow pattern by another with
a higher value, using a derivative or set of derivatives,
without changing the asset’ portfolio composition, having a
lower investment amount and less transaction costs.
One of the options in the following closed list shall be
used:
1 —
Micro hedge
2 —
Macro hedge
3 —
Matching assets and liabilities cash–flows used in the
context of matching adjustment portfolios
4 —
Efficient portfolio management, other than ‘Matching
assets and liabilities cash–flows’ used in the context of
matching adjustment portfolios
C0131 Notional
amount of the
derivative
The amount covered or exposed to the derivative, reported
in the original currency.
For futures and options it corresponds to contract size
multiplied by the trigger value and by the number of
contracts reported in that line. For swaps and forwards it
corresponds to the contract amount of the contracts
reported in that line. When the trigger value corresponds to
a range, the average value of the range shall be used.
The notional amount refers to the amount that is being
hedged / invested (when not covering risks). If several
trades occur, it shall be the net amount at the reporting
date.
C0140 Buyer/Seller Only for futures and options, swaps and credit derivatives
contracts.
Identify whether the derivative contract was bought or
sold.
The buyer and seller position for swaps is defined relative
to the security or notional amount and the swap flows.
A seller of a swap owns the security or notional amount at
the contract inception and agrees to deliver during the
contract term that security or notional amount, including
any other outflows related to the contract, when applicable.
A buyer of a swap shall own the security or the notional
amount at the end of the derivatives contact and shall
receive during the contract term that security or notional
amount, including any other inflows related to the contract,
when applicable.
One of the options in the following closed list shall be
used, with the exception of Interest Rate Swaps:
1 —
Buyer
2 —
Seller
For interest rate swaps one of the options in the following
closed list shall be use:
3 —
FX–FL: Deliver fixed–for–floating
4 —
FX–FX: Deliver fixed–for–fixed
5 —
FL–FX: Deliver floating–for–fixed
6 —
FL–FL: Deliver floating–for–floating
C0150 Premium paid
to date
The payment made (if bought), for options and up–front,
and periodical premium amounts paid for swaps, since the
moment the undertaking entered into the derivative
contract.
C0160 Premium
received to date
The payment received (if sold), for options and up–front,
and periodical premium amounts received for swaps, since
the moment the undertaking entered into the derivative
contract.
C0170 Number of
contracts
Number of similar derivative contracts reported in the line.
It shall be the number of contracts entered into. For Over–
TheCounter derivatives, e.g. one swap contract, ‘1’ shall be
reported, if ten swaps with the same characteristics, ‘10’
shall be reported.
The number of contracts can be non-integer, when there is
a need to split contracts.
The number of contracts shall be the ones outstanding at
the reporting date.
C0180 Contract size Number of underlying assets in the contract (e.g. for equity
futures it is the number of equities to be delivered per
derivative contract at maturity, for bond futures it is the
reference amount underlying each contract).
The way the contract size is defined varies according with
the type of instrument. For futures on equities it is common
to find the contract size defined as a function of the number
of shares underlying the contract.
For futures on bonds, it is the bond nominal amount
underlying the contract.
Only applicable for futures and options.
C0190 Maximum loss
under
unwinding
event
Maximum amount of loss if an unwinding event occurs.
Applicable to CIC category F.
Where a credit derivative is 100 % collateralised, the
maximum loss under an unwinding event is zero.
C0200 Swap outflow
amount
Amount delivered under the swap contract (other than
premiums), during the reporting period. Corresponds to
interest paid for IRS and amounts delivered for currency
swaps, credit swaps, total return swaps and other swaps.
In the cases where the settlement is made on a net basis
only one of the items C0200 and C0210 shall be reported.
C0210 Swap inflow
amount
Amount received under the swap contract (other than
premiums), during the reporting period. Corresponds to
interest received for IRS and amounts received for
currency swaps, credit swaps, total return swaps and other
swaps.
In the cases where the settlement is made on a net basis
only one of the items C0200 and C0210 shall be reported.
C0220 Initial date Identify the ISO 8601 (yyyy–mm–dd) code of the date
when obligations under the contract come into effect.
When various dates occur for the same derivative, only the
one regarding the first trade date of the derivative and only
one row for each derivative (no different rows for each
trade) reflecting the total amount invested in that derivative
considering the different dates of trade shall be reported.
In case of novation, the novation date becomes the trade
date for that derivative.
C0230 Duration Derivative duration, defined as the residual modified
duration, for derivatives for which a duration measure is
applicable.
Calculated as the net duration between in and out flows
from the derivative, when applicable.
C0240 Solvency II
value
Value of the derivative as of the reporting date calculated
as defined by Article 75 of Directive 2009/138/EC. It can
be positive, negative or zero.
C0250 Valuation
method
Identify the valuation method used when valuing
derivatives. One of the options in the following closed list
shall be used:
1 —
quoted market price in active markets for the same
assets or liabilities
2 —
quoted market price in active markets for similar
assets or liabilities
3 —
alternative valuation methods
6 —
market valuation according to Article 9(4) of
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35
Information on derivatives
C0040 Derivative ID
Code
Derivative ID code using the following priority:

ISO 6166 code of ISIN when available

Other recognised codes (e.g.: CUSIP, Bloomberg Ticker,
Reuters RIC)

Code attributed by the undertaking, when the options
above are not available, and must be consistent over time
C0050 Derivative ID
Code type
Type of ID Code used for the ‘Derivative ID Code’ item. One of
the options in the following closed list shall be used:
1 —
ISO/6166 for ISIN
2 —
CUSIP (The Committee on Uniform Securities Identification
Procedures number assigned by the CUSIP Service Bureau for
U.S. and Canadian companies)
3 —
SEDOL (Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the London
Stock Exchange)
4 —
WKN (Wertpapier Kenn–Nummer, the alphanumeric
German identification number)
5 —
Bloomberg Ticker (Bloomberg letters code that identify a
company’s securities)
6 —
BBGID (The Bloomberg Global ID)
7 —
Reuters RIC (Reuters instrument code)
8 —
FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier)
9 —
Other code by members of the Association of National
Numbering Agencies
99 —
Code attributed by the undertaking
C0260 Counterparty
Name
Name of the counterparty of the derivative. When available, this
item shall correspond to the entity name in LEI database. When
not available, it shall correspond to the legal name.
The following shall be considered:

Name of the exchange market for exchanged traded
derivatives; or

Name of Central Counterparty (CCP) for Over–The–
Counter derivatives where they are cleared through a
CCP; or

Name of the contractual counterparty for the other Over–
The–Counter derivatives.
C0270 Counterparty
Code
Identification code of the counterparty using the following
priority:
–LEI, when available;

Code attributed by the undertaking, when LEI is not available,
which shall be consistent over time.
This item is applicable to all counterparties, including for
derivatives cleared through a central counterparty, in which case
the Counterparty code refers to that central counterparty.
C0280 Type of
counterparty
code
Identification of the code used for the ‘Counterparty Code’ item.
One of the options in the following closed list shall be used:
1 —
LEI
2 —
Specific code
C0290 External rating Only applicable to Over–The–Counter derivatives.
The rating of the counterparty of the derivative at the reporting
reference date as provided by the nominated credit assessment
institution (ECAI).
This item is not applicable to derivatives for which undertakings
using internal model use internal ratings. If undertakings using
internal model do not use internal rating, this item shall be
reported.
If an issuer rating is not available, the item shall be left blank.
In case ‘Multiple ECAI’ is reported in C0300 the most
representative external rating shall be reported.
C0300 Nominated
ECAI
Identify the credit assessment institution (ECAI) giving the
external rating in C0290, by using the name of the ECAI as
published on ESMA’s website. In case of ratings issued by
subsidiaries of the ECAI the parent ECAI shall be reported (the
reference is made to ESMA list of credit rating agencies
registered or certified in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
1060/2009 on credit rating agencies).

This item shall be reported when External rating
(C0290) is reported.
C0310 Credit quality
step
Identify the credit quality step attributed to the counterparty of the
derivative, as defined by Article 109a(1) of Directive
2009/138/EC. The credit quality step shall reflect any
readjustments to the credit quality made internally by the
undertakings that use the standard formula.
This item is not applicable to derivatives for which undertakings
using internal model use internal ratings. If undertakings using
internal model do not use internal rating, this item shall be
reported.
One of the options in the following closed list shall be used:
0 —
Credit quality step 0
1 —
Credit quality step 1
2 —
Credit quality step 2
3 —
Credit quality step 3
4 —
Credit quality step 4
5 —
Credit quality step 5
6 —
Credit quality step 6
9 —
No rating available
C0320 Internal rating Internal rating of derivatives for undertakings using internal
ratings.
For undertakings applying a matching adjustment the internal
rating shall be reported to the extent that the internal ratings are
used to calculate the fundamental spread referred to in Article
77(c)(2).
C0330 Counterparty
group
Only applicable to Over–The–Counter derivatives, regarding
contractual counterparties other than an exchange market and
Central Counterparty (CCP).
Name of the ultimate parent entity of counterparty. When
available, this item shall correspond to the entity name in the
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) database. When not available, it
shall correspond to the legal name.
C0340 Counterparty
group code
Only applicable to Over–The–Counter derivatives, regarding
contractual counterparties other than an exchange market and
Central Counterparty (CCP).
Identification code of the counterparty using the following
priority:
–LEI when available

Code attributed by the undertaking, when LEI is not available,
which shall be consistent over time
When non-applicable this item shall not be reported.
C0350 Type of
counterparty
group code
Identification of the code used for the ‘Counterparty group Code’
item. One of the options in the following closed list shall be used:
1 —
LEI
2 —
Specific code
C0360 Contract name Name of the derivative contract.
C0370 Currency The ISO 4217 alphabetic code of the currency of the derivative
shall be identified, i.e. currency of the notional amount of the
derivative (e.g. option to have having an underlying amount in
USD, currency for which the notional amount is expressed
contractually for FX swap).
C0371 Currency of
price
The ISO 4217 alphabetic code of the currency of the price of the
derivative shall be identified, i.e. currency of the amount
exchanged against the notional amount of the derivative. For
example, if the undertaking is paying (or receiving) currency A
for the notional amount (currency B), the currency of the price is
A. The currency of the notional amount is B, reported in (C0370).
C0380 CIC Complementary Identification Code used to classify assets, as set
out in Annex —
VI CIC Table of this Regulation. When
classifying derivatives using the CIC table, undertakings shall
take into consideration the most representative risk to which the
derivative is exposed to.
C0390 Trigger value Reference price for futures, strike price for options (for bonds,
price shall be a percentage of the par amount), currency exchange
rate or interest rate for forwards, etc.
Not applicable to CIC D3 —
Interest rate and currency swaps. For
CIC F1 —
Credit default swaps it shall not be completed if not
possible.
In the case of more than one trigger over time, report the next
trigger occurring.
When the derivative has a range of trigger values, report the set
separated by comma ‘,’ if the range is not continuous and report
the range separated by ‘–’ if it is continuous.
C0400 Unwind
trigger of
contract
The event that causes the unwinding of the contract, out of the
regular expiration or term conditions, shall be identified. One of
the options in the following closed list shall be used:
1 —
Bankruptcy of the underlying or reference entity
2 —
Adverse fall in value of the underlying reference asset
3 —
Adverse change in credit rating of the underlying assets or
entity
4 —
Novation, i.e. the act of replacing an obligation under the
derivative with a new obligation, or replacing a party of the
derivative with a new party
5 —
Multiple events or a combination of events
6 —
Other events not covered by the previous options
9 —
No unwind trigger
C0430 Maturity date Identify the contractually defined ISO 8601 (yyyy–mm–dd) code
of the date of close of the derivative contract, whether at maturity
date, expiring date for options (European or American), etc.

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C0440 Swap
delivered
Identify what the undertaking delivers under the swap contract
(E.g.: Euribor+0.5%; 2.3%; EUR).
C0450 Swap received Identify what the undertaking receives under the swap contract
(E.g.: Euribor+0.5%; 2.3%; EUR).