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* WestLB to shift "at least" 87 bln eur to bad bank
* Soffin fund guarantees 6.4 bln eur portfolio in first step
* Ring-fencing of bad assets will comply with EU demands
(Adds EU comment, detail, background)
FRANKFURT, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Troubled German state-backed lender WestLB [WDLG.UL] said it planned to transfer at least 87 billion euros ($128 billion) of risky assets to what will be Germany's first "bad bank".
The move will fully comply with requirements set out by the European Commission, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
As a first step, a portfolio of up to 6.4 billion euros of structured securities has been guaranteed by German bank rescue fund Soffin, for which WestLB's owners have provided a 4 billion euro counter-guarantee, WestLB said.
"The temporary additional aid is necessary to allow WestLB to set up a bad bank," European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a separate statement.
The bad bank is needed for WestLB to return to viability, the Commission said.
The move came as Soffin's head warned that new challenges faced the financial sector and that the crisis was not yet over. [ID:nL7532919] (Reporting by Jonathan Gould in Frankfurt and Matthias Inverardi in Duesseldorf)
Questo me l 'ha già fatta passare di interesse
Mi rendo conto che parliamo di emissioni di banche traballanti, però è pur sempre una banca che fa utili, che trasferirà crediti rischiosi alla bad bank di Soffin (in cambio di obbligazioni dello Stato tedesco?), con un piano già approvato dalla UE e soprattutto con dietro lo Stato tedesco.
Rischio x rischio: forse preferirei un WestLB a 40 che non una BOI o AIB a 60...
NB: scrivo per stimolare la discussione, non per convincere nessuno a comprare WestLB. Anzi....
Copio una pagina dal sito di SOffin.
Benefits – Assumption of Risk Positions
The Fund may assume risk positions (e.g. receivables, securities) from financial sector enterprises that were acquired by financial sector enterprises prior to 13 October 2008. As consideration the Fund transfers to the financial sector enterprises debt instruments of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Fund can hold the risk position until their maturity.
As consideration for the assumption of risk positions the Fund charged interest in an amount determined on the basis of the assumed risk, at least equal to the cost of funds of the Fund. The maximum amount of the assumption of risk positions in a single entity (including its affiliates) amounts to 5 billion Euros, subject to the decision of the steering committee.
SoFFin - Sonderfonds Finanzmarktstabilisierung