Opinione non mia.....
Del resto credo che sia più interessante ascoltare cosa hanno da dire questi personaggi/analisti che qualche fanfarone che sputa sentenze a destra e sinistra con scarsa cognizione di causa e poca competenza, magari perchè ha letto 2 numeri su un foglio....
E' solo un invito a pesare da chi arrivano le varie considerazioni e a quale è il suo background.
Saluti.
From: TOM JENKINS (JEFFERIES INTERNATIO)
At: Jan 30 2013 15:45:26
Just please be careful... these moves are only on a TV news story as far as i can see. Better buyers, if not quite bid only, though it did gpo bid only for a short while about 20mins ago. Stock's up 18%.
"ING, ABN, Rabobank May Add EU400m, to SNS Rescue, RTL-Z Reports", this is the latest story which seems to be gathering some traction.
From what i hear, latest plan could be that ABN, ING, Rabo and van Lanschot (and maybe some others) inject the EUR500m into an SPV to circumvent which will basically be the bad bank, and is intended to obviate the EC ban on direct aid.
SNS would then need EUR1.5bn from external investors. If it can get that then it might remove the need for full nationalisation - though issues remain around maintaining the Stichting Beheer ownership levels or not overtly diluting only EUR240m mkt cap, and also who the heck would want this pooch of an equity?
Additionally, it still needs to pay off the EUR900+m of existing state preferreds, so the plan now seems to be to convert the outstanding this into equity, which would still result in the state taking around a 40% stake in the group based on current mkt cap.
If a minority state stake does happen then we are still threatened with heavy burden-sharing (albeit voluntary), but i don't think it would result in any kind of coercive burden-sharing. On the other hand, if the state just accepts some terming out of the repayment of existing aid, and lord knows we have precedent for that, then we might not see the state taking a stake at all, and we could be talking coupon/call ban.
Two questions i have with this are: 1) will the EC allow this kind of SPV bailout structure for the bad bank, it sounds very sneaky; and 2) what happens to the group structure vis a vis Groep, bank and Insurance, especially if insurance is sold and any state equity stake grows as a result?
On the other hand, if, just if, this is a positive news story and if, just if it's a purely private solution, could the Dutch and SNS tell Darth Aluminia to go and stick his light sabre right up his evil death star? - after all the Dutch do wear big boy pants at the European table. Even if not, given the quantum (quite small to be honest) and still likely pro-EC break-up plan of bank and insurance it could be that just a short-term call/cpn ban is imposed.... in which case one should BUY the heck out of the bonds.
Massive massive caution required still. This sounds positive but as one client noted sagaciously: "the devil is in the detail and this is still a pig" and that made me think about the Gadarene swine. Beware yet of cliffs.
All counters and thoughts welcome as ever
ta
tom