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Central Bank of the UAE is one of the rulebooks issued by the Central Bank of the UAE. For compliance officers, legal teams, and advisors working under this regime, finding the right article quickly matters. Lexara indexes the full text of CBUAE Large Exposures Regulation and makes it searchable two ways: full-text and keyword search for rapid lookup, and AI Explorer for natural-language questions answered with citations to the exact article.
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Article 2-3.1Large Exposure Definition and Limit
Counterparties with exposures of 10% or more of Tier 1 capital are deemed large exposures, limited to 25% of Tier 1 capital overall.
Article 3.5-3.7, 17.5Breach Notification and Capital Deduction
Any breaches of large exposure limits must be reported to the Central Bank immediately, and Tier 1 capital is deducted unless waived by the Central Bank.
Article 4Connected Counterparties
Counterparties are considered connected if control exceeds 50% or economic interdependence exists, requiring assessment of exposure over 5% of Tier 1 capital.
Article 5Large Exposure Reporting
Banks must report large exposures to the Central Bank, including exposures of 10% or more of Tier 1 capital, the 20 largest exposures, related-party limited exposures, and breakdowns by sector, country and currency.
Article 6-11Exposure Measurement and Credit Risk Mitigation
Banks must measure exposures including all on- and off-balance sheet items, applying minimum credit conversion factors without netting between banking and trading books.
Article 12Sovereign and Public Sector Entity Limits
Sets Central Bank large exposure limits for sovereign and public sector entities: aggregate exposure to Emirates Governments capped at 150% of Tier 1 capital, with separate individual and aggregate caps for commercial government entities.
Article 13Interbank and Foreign Branch Exposure
Intraday interbank exposures are exempt from large exposure limits, and a UAE bank's aggregate exposure to foreign branches requiring local capital must not exceed 30% of Tier 1 capital.
Article 14-15Covered Bonds, Funds and Structures
Large exposures rules set covered bond risk weights and require looking through fund and securitisation exposures at or above 0.25% of Tier 1, assigning unidentifiable exposures to the Unknown Client and grouping connected counterparties.
Article 16Central Counterparty Exposures
Exposures to Qualifying Central Counterparties are exempt from limits; other exposures are capped, with specified values for margins and equity stakes.
Article 17.1-17.4, 17.6-17.7Concentration Risk Governance
Banks must monitor concentration risk bank-wide, set risk appetite thresholds, report material concentrations and breaches to the Board, stress test them, and include them in ICAAP and ILAAP.
Article 17.8-17.10Large Exposure Approval
Banks must obtain Board or designated Board committee approval before granting new large exposures, inform the Board immediately when existing exposures become large, and increase monitoring of large exposures across all risk types.
Article 18Related Party Exposure Limits
Banks must limit related party exposures, capping shareholders holding 5% or more of capital at 20% of Tier 1 individually and 50% aggregate, and prohibiting exposures to external auditors.
Article 19Foreign Bank Branch Limits
Foreign bank branches must keep large exposures within the lower of 250% of Branch Capital or 25% of entity capital, with head-office exposure capped at 30% funded, 300% unfunded.
CBUAE Large Exposures Regulation's 26 indexed articles break down by obligation type as follows.
Credit Risk / Finance — 18 articles
Credit Risk — 2 articles
Regulatory Reporting — 2 articles
Risk — 2 articles
Credit — 2 articles
CBUAE Large Exposures Regulation spans the following regulatory topics, as tagged by Lexara.
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Central Bank of the UAE is issued by the Central Bank of the UAE. It has 13 articles across 1 chapters.
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