Regulations and guidelines concerning credit institutions 

Please note that the English versions are unofficial translations. Only the Finnish and Swedish versions of the FIN-FSA's regulations and guidelines are legally binding.

10 Credit institutions

101 Authorization and places of business

103 Business

 103.11 Guideline on asset transfer and securitisation, valid from 1 May 1996
 Appendix : Summary of information to be submitted to the Financial Supervision Authority on an asset securitisation transaction.

  • From 1 March 2007, the Guideline's sections on the solvency ratio requirement and calculation of the solvency ratio have been abrogated by Standard 4.3h (in Finnish). 

105 Monitoring of risks

105.1 General guideline on consolidated supervision, valid from 1 July 1998

  • Available in Finnish and Swedish

 105.2 Regulation on the reporting of shares and real estate held by credit institutions and their consolidation groups, valid from 31 December 1999
 Appendix 1 : Reporting instructions
 Appendix 2 : Holdings of shares or participations in business undertakings
 Appendix 3 : Holdings of real estate and shares and participations in real estate corporations

 105.10 Regulation on reporting of undertakings belonging to a consolidation group and a group, valid from 30 September 1996
 Appendix : Instructions on reporting electronically undertakings belonging to a consolidation group and a group and other separately mentioned undertakings.

106 Accounting, annual financial statements and solvency

106.4 Guideline on applying for exemption from the provisions concerning the extent of consolidation groups and consolidated accounts, valid from 30 June 1998.

  • As regards the scope of consolidated financial statements, the guideline is rendered obsolete by standard 3.1 starting from 1 December 2005. 

107 Auditors and auditing

 107.1 Regulation on auditors' reports, valid from 1 September 1998

 107.2 Guideline on a supervisory board's duty to hear auditors and internal auditors,
valid from 14 February 1994

 107.3 Guideline on supervising the independence of auditors and deputy auditors of credit institutions and their subsidiaries, valid from 1 September 1998
 Appendix : Model for the notification to be filed with the Financial Supervision Authority

12 October 2011