Individual government guarantee

Individual Government Guarantee

The Act to amend the Act on Financial Stability, which entered into force on 4 February 2009, established a scheme under which the Financial Stability Company could, on the basis of an application, enter into agreements for the provision of individual government guarantees for existing and new unsubordinated, unsecured debt and for the provision of supplementary collateral (junior covered bonds) with a maturity of up to three years by institutions issuing covered bonds or mortgage-covered bonds. The guarantee scheme applies to loans issued on or before 31 December 2010.

Applications could be submitted by Danish banks, subsidiaries of foreign banks operating in Denmark, mortgage credit institutions and Danish Ship Finance A/S complying with the solvency requirement of 8%, the institution’s individual solvency needs and any higher individual solvency requirements fixed by the Danish FSA, cf. section 124 of the Danish Financial Business Act.

The Danish Parliament’s Finance Committee decided on 22 March 2012 an Appropriation Application on extension of individual state guarantees.

The Financial Stability Company may subsequently issue individual state guarantees in connection with a merger between two credit institutions, provided that one of the merging banks is distressed or is likely to become distressed, and that the merged bank is viable. The scheme applies to all Danish banks regardless if they earlier received an individual state guarantee.

If the new individual state guarantee is to replace an excisting guarantee the states loss-risk needs to be significantly reduced, compared to the situation where the two banks do not merge.

The overall financial frame of the scheme is DKK 40 billion.”

The individual government guarantee applies to the following loans and bond issues:

Reg no.	Banks
043	Alm. Brand Bank A/S
056	Amagerbanken af 2011 A/S
016	Arbejdernes Landsbank A/S
007	Basisbank A/S
011	BRFkredit A/S
051	Broager Sparekasse
040	Danske Andelskassers Bank A/S
002	Danske Bank A/S
006	Den Jyske Sparekasse
025	Diba Bank A/S
052	DLR Kredit A/S
010	Dronninglund Sparekasse
023	Eik Banki Føroya P/F
004	FIH Erhvervsbank A/S
055	Fjordbank Mors af 2011 A/S
034	FS Bank A/S
044	Hvidbjerg Bank A/S
015	Max Bank af 2011 A/S
030	Middelfart Sparekasse
037	Nordfyns Bank A/S
049	Norðoya Sparikassi
058	Saxo Privat Bank A/S
017	Skjern Bank A/S
003	Spar Nord Bank A/S
028	Sparbank A/S
024	Sparebank Østjylland af 2012 A/S
057	Sparekassen Bredebro
039	Sparekassen Faaborg A/S
008	Sparekassen Himmerland A/S
045	Sparekassen Hobro
005	Sparekassen Hvetbo A/S
042	Sparekassen i Skals
036	Sparekassen Lolland A/S
022	Sparekassen Sjælland
014	Sparekassen Vendsyssel
046	Totalbanken A/S
018	Tønder Bank A/S
019	Vestjysk Bank A/S
029	Vordingborg Bank A/S
021	Østjydsk Bank A/S