When assessing compliance with the condition laid down in Article 113(7)(h) of the Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, namely that the IPS must be based on a broad membership of credit institutions of a predominantly homogeneous business profile, the NCAs shall take into account:
whether the IPS has sufficient members (among the institutions that are potentially eligible for membership) to cover any support measures it may have to implement;
the members' business models, business strategies, sizes, customers, regional focus, products, funding structures, material risk categories, sales cooperation and service agreements with other IPS members, etc.;
whether the various business profiles of the members allow the monitoring and classification of their risk situations using the uniformly stipulated systems that the IPS has in place pursuant to Article 113(7)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;
that IPS sectors are often based on collaboration, meaning that central institutions and other specialised institutions in the IPS network offer products and services to other IPS members. When assessing the homogeneity of business profiles the NCA should consider the extent to which the members' business activities are related to the network (products and services provided to local banks, services to shared customers, capital market activities, etc.).