The script seems to be already seen in the spring with the Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca. Only in this case, the credit institution involved is not a popular medium in size, but the third bank of the Country, with 160 billion in assets and more than 25 thousand employees. As in the previous veneto, a capital increase has failed miserably on the market, with membership levels next to zero. The similarities however end here, because if the white knight of Bpvi, Veneto Banca was the bottom of the Atlas, for Mps the parachute will be public with the direct intervention of the Treasury in the share capital of the bank.
Yesterday, the council of administration has raised the white flag in the light of the outcome of the increase. The private placement, the last piece of the equity reinforcement operation, it is closed at 14 and the board took note of the results in a long meeting long-term project until late in the evening and then suspended in expectation of the decree of the Treasury. “The capital increase operation,” explains a note, “has not closed successfully. Were not collected, investment orders sufficient to reach the amount of 5 billion”. The bank has not announced the details of the results of the transaction, but market sources suggest that the level of acceptances has been “very low, to the point that the offer has been almost deserted”. The fail was in the air from Monday, the 19th, for a competition of reasons. On one hand, the absence of anchor investor, such as the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar, has discouraged investors at a stage where you c an already look with some distrust of Italy. On the other hand, there is no doubt that, at the issue price of 1 euro, the new shares were still too expensive for a bank as a Mount. Suffice it to say that the multiple of price/ tangible book value post money is estimated to be around 0.58 and-0,56, above the average of Italian banks. The third factor not to be underestimated was the time. Mps has tried to collect 4 billion on the market in less than a week, taking advantage of the uncomfortable window of time in which the end of the year.
A nothing is served the outcome quite encouraging of the liability management exercise that, in its two-tranche, has yielded to the bank of approximately 2 billion euro for the purposes of the capital increase. The conversion was in fact conditioned to the positive outcome of the recapitalisation and is automatically revoked for the failure to achieve the threshold of 5 billion. “The non-completion of the increase,” says the note, “entails the loss also of the securitization transaction and of the overall exercise of liability management on subordinated liabilities issued or guaranteed by the bank. Titles awarded in adherence to the offerings of the lme will be sent to the respective carriers in the terms set forth in the relevant offering documentation”. It is not excluded, however, that the securitisation of the € 27.7 billion of suffering, may be restored to in walk, also in the light of the renewed commitment by the Atlas. The operation is assisted by a bridge loan of 4.7 billion with a pool of banks composed by Mediobanca, , Jp Morgan, Credit Suisse and Hsbc (Citi, it would show to the last, perhaps, to fears about the negative outcome of the rescue plan). “If the operation will remain in the foot, we are,” said a banker with one of the institutes involved. Technically, the structure of the securitization could be confirmed, even if the decision must be taken by the Treasury. That yesterday Mps has stressed that “investment banks are involved in various capacities in the consortium for the placement, and in the securitization transaction, including Jp Morgan, Mediobanca and , will not receive any commission,” says the note. Today, in the meantime, in the stock exchange the securities of the Monte will remain sus pended as a precaution.
But late at night the government has passed the decree Save-saving, that contains the measures to save the Mount, and also the other banks who may be in similar situations. The chairman of the Board Paolo Gentiloni, said that the objectives of the fund by 20 billion made by the decree “are the greater protection and possible savings, and the consolidation of our banking and financial system”. Gentiloni has also recalled how the intervention has been defined in agreement with the european authorities, with the aim, precisely, to protect savings, but also to make more robust the banking system. Economy minister Piercarlo Padoan, in turn, summarising the content in the decree in the course of a brief press conference that followed the council of ministers, said that in virtue of this intervention, the third Italian bank will be able to return to work in support of the national economy “in a dispute of full peace and tranquility for its investors and for its staff 221;.
it is saving the investment of the bondholders retail is one of the main axes of the measure. Padoan, in fact, he explained that this type of investors, in the possession now of subordinated bonds (those parties from the burden-sharing) will be protected 100 %. In a first time convert the bonds held by them in actions, but at the end of the proceedings, after the purchase of the shares by the State, will be in the hand of ordinary bonds of a value equal to the original investment. Always Padoan explained that the amount of the intervention of the recapitalization “will be enough to satisfy the requirements identified by the stress test. This mechanism enabled by the Government is of course useful to the Mps but is thought to other possible situations. We’ll see if there will be other institutions who will apply, I repeat, are the banks that require the activation of the mechanism”. As regards the d ecision of Consob to suspend today, the title from the trades, Padoan is a choice “absolutely normal, we are in a delicate situation”.
In essence, the mechanism studied involves the conversion by force of the bonds into shares, to institutional investors will be recognized in an amount equal to 75% of the bond, the undersigned, as owners of retail will be awarded shares for 100% of the value of their bonds. All the actions, then, will be repurchased by the Treasury and investors will be awarded for senior bonds.
Returning to the fund by 20 billion, and this will be used for all the recapitalization precautionary we should be over the next few months, according to the rules of the european directive Brrd, and also for the guarantees, the liquidity that the banks had to ask. In the case of Mps will be reset to zero conversions voluntary while Banca Mps , as announced in a press release “has resolved to make an application for financial support the extraordinary and temporary, which will enable the same access to the extent of the recapitalisation measure provided for pursuant to article 32 paragraph 4 of the eu directive BRRD, which is reserved to institutions that, among other things, to register positive net worth, in case it does not prove to be viable solutions to the market. Through this mechanism the Bank, after dialogue with the European Central Ban k, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the European Commission (DG Competition), will have access to the aforementioned recapitalisation measures and extraordinary measures of support of liquidity, which will put the Bank in complete safety, allowing it to operate in the interest of their customers, depositors and employees.”
The same press release explains that “in line with the support initiatives taken by the Government of the Italian Republic, the Bank will provide a proposal for a transaction addressed to retail investors and to end or prevent litigation relating to the marketing of subordinated bonds denominated €2.160.558.000 Variable Rate Subordinated Upper Tier II 2008-2018 (ISIN IT0004352586)”.
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