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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 149/2013 of 19 December 2012

supplementing Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on indirect clearing arrangements, the clearing obligation, the public register, access to a trading venue, non-financial counterparties, and risk mitigation techniques for OTC derivatives contracts not cleared by a CCP (Text with EEA relevance)

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Article 17 — (Article 11(14)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012)

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Criteria for using marking-to-model

For using marking-to-model, financial and non-financial counterparties shall have a model that:

17(a)

(a)incorporates all factors that counterparties would consider in setting a price, including using as much as possible marking-to-market information;

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17(b)

(b)is consistent with accepted economic methodologies for pricing financial instruments;

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17(c)

(c)is calibrated and tested for validity using prices from any observable current market transactions in the same financial instrument or based on any available observable market data;

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17(d)

(d)is validated and monitored independently, by another division than the division taking the risk;

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17(e)

(e)is duly documented and approved by the board of directors as frequently as necessary, following any material change and at least annually. This approval may be delegated to a committee.

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