Advanced Capital and Leverage Management Concepts Flashcards
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What is the Double Leverage?
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It is possible to downstream Group capital differently to how it was issue to solve entity capital issues outside of MREL.
For example, Group can issue a Tier 3 bond to the market, but this can then be down-streamed to BBPLC as CET1. This improved BBPLC’s CET1 ratio relative to Group.
To do this from debt to equity, as in the example, requires PRA permission
