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