Summary
This proposal amends EU rules to change how different types of bank debt are prioritized during insolvency, aiming to protect taxpayers and ensure financial stability. 10 27.12.2017
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finance
economy
business and competition
Key points
- Harmonization of insolvency rules for bank debt across all European Union Member States.
- Introduction of a new asset class known as 'non-preferred senior debt' to help banks meet loss-absorption requirements.
- New debt instruments must have a maturity of at least one year and contain no embedded derivatives.
- Ensuring that ordinary unsecured claims maintain a higher priority ranking than this new non-preferred class of debt.
Documents (PDFs)
REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on amending Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the ranking of unsecured debt instruments in insolvency hierarchy
Ranking of unsecured debt instruments in insolvency hierarchy ***I
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