Q&A da parte EBA...
Come ormai sa chi si interessa di normativa al fine di prevedere le mosse degli emittenti, l'EBA comunica ogni venerdì le risposte (posto che ve ne siano) ai quesiti delle banche.
Oggi ne sono state pubblicate altre 6.
Importante, a mio avviso, la domanda 46:
When an old-style Tier 1 instrument with an incentive to call passes its step-up date and ceases to be recognised as grandfathered Tier 1 capital under Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), can it qualify as Tier 2 capital going forward if it were to meet all the requirements of Article 63 of CRR? For many existing instruments, the quarterly calls following the first call date of the Tier 1 instrument would prevent the inclusion in Tier 2 capital under CRR. If an old-style Tier 1 instrument had the Issuer's Call entirely removed from the instrument's documentation by the Issuer or Trustee, could it theoretically requalify as Tier 2 if it met all the other provisions for Tier 2 capital (Article 63 etc) after the removal of the Call provision?
che oggi ha avuto questa risposta:
Any material change in the contract will be considered as a new issuance. The instrument will be fully eligible in Tier 2 in its own right if and only if, as a result of the changes in the contract, it complies fully with Article 63 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR). In particular, settlements of coupon payments in a form other than cash or an own funds instrument may only be effected provided the requirements of Article 73 (1) and (2) are met. In addition, dividend pusher and stopper clauses interfere with the institution's flexibility to cancel distributions on other classes of capital instruments (see related question QA 2013_21 for further information).
For the avoidance of doubt, the answer to this question does not apply to the exercise of a substitution and variation clause in the case where said clause only allows non-material changes to the contract.
In attesa che le banche d'affari si pronuncino al riguardo (non mancheranno di farlo), questo significa, secondo me, che il "metodo Intesa" (=cancellazione della call per 5 anni) a certe condizioni permette di far qualificare come T2 un bond T1.
La notizia, in sè, non è positiva.
Rimane il fatto che ora le banche dovrebbero avere tutti gli elementi per definire la loro strategia in materia di richiamo (o meno) dei subordinato "vintage".