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Prudential Regulation Authority Rulebook

Guidance

SS15/13 – Groups

Chapter

Introduction

Printed on: 19/06/2025

Rulebook at: 07/02/2024


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Introduction

1.1

This supervisory statement is relevant to all banks, building societies, and designated investment firms and all PRA-approved or PRA-designated holding companies.   

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1.2

This statement sets out the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA’s) expectations about applications relating to:

  1. (a) its approach to consolidation, in particular individual consolidation (CRR Article 9) and the method of consolidation for entities falling within CRR Article 18(5); and
  2. (b) excluding certain entities from consolidation (CRR Article 19(2)).
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1.3

This statement should be read in conjunction with the CRR articles listed, the requirements in the Groups Part of the PRA Rulebook and the high-level expectations outlined in The PRA’s approach to banking supervision.[1] For RFBs, as defined in the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA), section 142A, or any other PRA-authorised person that is a member of a group containing an RFB, this statement should be read alongside the PRA’s Supervisory Statement 8/16 ‘Ring-fenced bodies (RFBs)’.[2]  

Footnotes

  • 1. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/prudential-regulation/publication/pras-approach-to-supervision-of-the-banking-and-insurance-sectors
  • 2. PRA Supervisory Statement 8/16 ‘Ring-fenced bodies’, July 2016, available at: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/pra/Pages/publications/ss/2016/ss816.aspx
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