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Investor Update

Dec 3, 2018

Speaker 1

Good morning. This is the Chorus Call conference operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the Banco BPM Strategic Update Partnership with Credi Agricole and ACE Project. As a reminder, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Roberto Peronaldo, IR Manager. Please go ahead, sir.

Speaker 2

Thank you very much, and thank you everybody for attending this call in the morning related to the strategic update before leaving the floor to Giuseppe Castagna, our CEO, for a short presentation. Let me remind that you can find the presentation on the website on the Investor Relations page and the Q and A section is reserved to financial analysts. Thank you very much. Please, Mr. Castagna.

Hello. Good morning, everybody. Just some further explanation about the two extraordinary transaction where I'm going We have concluded on Friday, are going to conclude as related to ACE in the next days. As you know, we always consider these two transactions specular because from one side, we had to raise the capital needed in order to reduce further and potentially for the maximum amount possible the NPL disposal. Basically, on Friday night, we have concluded and signed the MOU with the Credit Agricole.

As far as the reorganization of the consumer finance activity. As you know, we had we still have these two important participation, ProFemili and Agos. Basically, we decided with Crediag recall to strengthening our relationship through the acquisition from AGOS of the captive activity, which ProFemer is doing with Bank former Banco BPM branch and network. In doing that, basically, we stay 100% ownership in ProFemily and 39% ownership in AGOS and doing so not reducing significantly any of the future revenues from these two streamlines. The capital impact has been significant.

We are calculating 80 basis points of positive impact. And of course, we consider this impact largely enough in order to make also the transaction on nonperforming loans. As you know, we are still dealing with the three bidders in order to finalize the best offer. Nevertheless, we are in the position to say that also at the minimum level we will be able to perform this transaction. Of course, still many details has to come.

Basically, we have still to decide the GACS transaction or not, but this will be decided when we will assign to only one of these bid the transaction. Nevertheless, we are in able nowadays to declare that even if we go for the maximum amount of the transaction related to the banking non performing, So excluding for the time being the leasing activity, which is still undergoing the due diligence was not yet completed, we will be able to reduce dramatically our non performing loans stock and the non performing loans ratio. You can see on Page three the different hypotheses, which I would like to stress that are not forecast for 2018, but are only pro form a on Q3 related to numbers you already know. So taking the Q3 as a reference, we could go down up to 10.6% in terms of gross NPL, 6.6% in terms of net NPL ratio and reducing the gross bad loans up to 3% down to 3% in terms of gross and down to 1.2% in terms of net. Of course, this is also very healthy and safe in terms of capital ratio because depending of the kind of transaction we will be going to execute, we can already state that both fully loaded and Phase E in common equity Tier one are going to stay as they are in Q3 or even better.

The range that we have for a gas that is 11%, 11.5% for fully loaded and 13%, 13.5% for fully phased. Let's go a bit more into detail on Page four. Technically, AGOS is going to acquire, let's say, the new pro family captive business for the total consideration of EUR $310,000,000. And the pro family as part of August before any potential merger will distribute its product through the entire branch network of the new Banco BPM Group. As you know, Banco BPM merged BPM the November 26 year.

So we have only one network, all generating consumer finance for Argos for the next fifteen years. Banco BPM will keep instead 100% of the former pro family noncaptive activity. I can say that right now, I think it's almost 60%, 65% non captive activity and 30%, 25% captive activity. AGOS will maintain its current structure with 61% owned by Crediavykol and 39% owned by Banco BPM. MOU, of course, include many agreement related to shareholders, distribution, funding, and all of them will remain substantially in line with the current one and they will last for the same number of years, fifteen years maturity.

On top of that, the two shareholders agreed on the opportunity to list AGOS in the next two point five years. And as a part of the IPO, Banco BPLM got the option, but not obligation to reduce its current shareholding in August up to 10% and obtaining a put option from Crediag recall at a price at a minimum price of EUR 150,000,000, exercisable in June 2021. This guarantee is very important for our side because entail the possibility to increase immediately for this amount, a very cautionary amount, the common equity Tier one since day one. So it's another €150,000,000 that we can take advantage in terms of common equity Tier one. This option is, of course, in our opinion, very unlikely to be exercised, having given the wide gap between the strike price of EUR 150,000,000, which means EUR 1,000,000,000 and half of global valuation of Argos.

Meanwhile, we feel that the valuation will be almost double, increasing also the activity from former BPM branches. The total capital generation is around 80 basis point and is very important in the light that we can maintain the streamline of future profit generation, very important, as you know, coming from this participation. On Page five, you can find the three different phases of the transaction. Step one, of course, is split into the current situation with BancoBPN owning a pro family business, both captive and non captive. The immediate step will be Banco BPM to split the captive and non captive business and selling the captive business, which will be 100% at that stage of pro family to AGOS.

As you can see in step two, Banco BPM and CrediariCol maintaining the same stakeholdings will have AGOS owning 100% of the pro family captive business. Let's go let's pass to AES project. Basically nothing very new on Page six related to what we already told you on the Q3 conference call. Basically, you only have that the range of the banking book on the bottom right sides of the slide is will be in the sides between EUR 7,000,000,000, 7,500,000,000.0 equivalent to a gross balance sheet exposure of EUR 6,000,000,000 to EUR 6,500,000,000.0, respectively. Again, on leasing portfolio, which is equivalent to EUR 800,000,000, the due diligence is still in course.

On Page seven, you will have at a glance the impressive reduction of the de risking we have done in the last couple of years. As you can see, apart from the evident reduction from EUR 30,000,000,000 to below EUR 12,000,000,000, If we consider also the inflows that we get during these last two point five years, the global stock reduction since 2016 was in the range of EUR 18,000,000,000, 18,500,000,000.0. On Page eight, you have all the ratio split during these last three years. Again, the last number on the right, both in the gross NPL ratio and net NPL ratio are pro form a of Q3. Meanwhile, as you know, we are still reducing our exposure through workout and normal activity.

Particularly on Page nine, we can give you at a glance a look about the remaining portfolio of bad loans. The total consideration could be around EUR 3,300,000,000.0, including the EUR 800,000,000 still of leasing, of which EUR 1,700,000,000.0 of leasing and EUR 1,600,000,000.0 of banking. As you can see, the accounting coverage will not be reduced that much after the ACE transaction. We will still have a coverage above 60% and a very safe 72.5% of share of secured NPL. On the right side, you can have a look to the leasing portfolio, which is going down through workout.

We haven't yet done any transaction in terms of disposing. And you can see the significant reduction we are experiencing year by year also in terms of workout and this is what we will still continue to reflect our activity in the coming quarters. Last page, Page 10. This is what already anticipated. The both phase in and fully loaded common equity Tier one are going at least to stay the level as they are, as we promised.

Possibly they will increase, but we still don't have the exact figure until we don't complete the ACE transaction. Let me say that even when we will decide the final bidder, of course, we will only have the minimum price for the transaction we are going to execute because, of course, especially if we go for a GACS transaction, the final price, possibly better than the initial price, will be the only the one decided after the rating assignment by the rating agency. So we have still to wait some weeks. In any case, again, the common equity Tier one is very comfortable at higher than the current level. That's all for the explanation of the two transaction.

Please, if there is any question, I will be available to answer.

Speaker 1

Excuse me, this is the Chorus Call conference operator. We will now begin the question and answer session, which is reserved to analysts only. The first question is from Jean Noyes with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Speaker 3

Hello, good morning. I have a few questions, please. The first one is on your regulatory and ratings requirement. So I look at your SREP, Pillar 2R, and it's one of the highest among the smaller banks in Italy. And I just wanted to understand whether you had any indication as to what the magnitude of a reduction could be upon completion of your transactions.

I also wanted to understand, given that your senior ratings with the major rating agencies for the time being non investment grade. And I see, for example, UBI's just borderline investment grade, whether you'd expect that to change? So that's the first question. The second question I had is, could you please talk about the earnings loss from the business you're disposing net of the reinvestment obviously to keep your stake constant in AGOS? And also could you please give us an outlook now that you've if you did the sale that you expect on NPLs, what your cost of risk would be in 2019?

Thank you very much. Those are my two questions.

Speaker 2

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Neves. The first two questions are very interesting. We still have to see the effect of this transaction on the market.

Hopefully, this will be very well taken, and we hope that the same will be on the regulator and rating agency side. Of course, we are trying in the last couple of years since the merger to execute every quarter what we promise every quarter Up to now, frankly speaking, also due to the general macro situation and the situation, of course, generated also by the spread in the last two quarters, we are not getting that much reward. Let's say that we think this is a final transaction. This is the final step of our restructuring and is far ahead of what we expected when we started the merger. So of course, we had some talks with all the stakeholders of the market.

And so even with regulatory rating agency, up to a few weeks ago, it looks like a bit improbable for us to conclude such good transaction. Nevertheless, we were talking to them announcing what we had in mind to do. So as you know, especially for regulator side, it's more a backward review rather than a forward looking view. So I don't know if they will take all the effect of the massive derisking and asset quality plan we have performed during the year. But hopefully, we will have some signal from this bettering of our portfolio and also our consistency in terms of capital ratios.

But unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything more than waiting and possibly experiencing what is the output of the SREP, which I hope could be better than previously. Of course, I don't think that it will take in effect all the good transaction we have performed during the last months. Having said that, in terms of profitability, as we stressed and these things, we think is the real good part of this transaction is that everybody was thinking that in selling part of our business, we were reducing profitability. Instead, we can assure that we will have basically a neutral effect or a minimum effect, let's say, lower than EUR 5,000,000 in terms of profitability due to the reorganization, just because we will keep also the non captive business 100% of ProFemiD. In terms of cost of risk, we can only restate what we already said in Q3 that we hopefully, we will have a cost of risk next next year in line with the other competitor.

And just for the sake of being cautious, we think we can respect our business plan guidance, which was 60 basis 65 basis points.

Speaker 1

The next question is from Christian Carrese with Intermonte. Please go ahead.

Speaker 4

Yes, good morning. Just a clarification on the deal, if you can elaborate a little bit on the agreement in terms of funding and rebate for the agreement in the consumer credit and the put option. Did you check with the regulator the possibility to account for the capital gain, the put option, the possibility to sell a stake in 2021? So the visibility on common equity is high. So if you can elaborate on that.

And the HDD waiver, we know that there are some talks for to make automatic the HDD waiver on NPEs at European level. You applied for the LED waiver in March, if I remember properly. If you can give us an update on that. And finally, do you expect the impact on P and L in from 2019 onwards in terms of time value and PPA on the NPE that you're going to sell to be compensated by the lower cost of risk? Thank you.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Mr. Carrese. We have not changed at all in terms of rebate policy vis a vis the new agreement with AGOS. So it remained the same condition last year. In terms of funding, of course, contributing also the BPM stake, so the pro family stake of our production of our network, there will be an increase related to this production that before we in any case were funding through pro family.

So no material change and we are very happy with that. In terms of regulatory, both on CRR and LGD, for the put, we are follow we have been following all the rules stated in the CRR. So we are not basically running any potential risk of not be considered because we have done exactly what is allowed in terms of CRR, also having the agreement on the agricultural side to reduce their portion of capital related to the put option granted to us. So in particular, the increase in our capital and the decrease in their capital. In terms of LGD waiver, you know that we you know exactly our state.

We have bit more of certainty after the recent European Commission statement about the LGD waiver proposition. So we are following both the development, both in terms of European Commission and Parliament and in terms of ECB, in any case, we will have all the opportunity to show that LGD waiver basically will be part of the model that we will the change model we are going to introduce in 2019. So frankly speaking, I don't see this kind

Speaker 5

of

Speaker 2

risk. Last question, I would say that the savings in terms of cost of risk is much bigger than whatever effect in terms of NII due to time value and PPA. Of course, PPA is not related transaction, but in any case, we will be going to reduce the PPA due to the merger in any case by 2019, 2020.

Speaker 4

Just a clarification, if I may, on the put option. If you are not going to make the IPO, you can decide not to sell the stake, the 10% stake?

Speaker 2

Of course, we have two different option and better, three option. One is to exercise the put and we will remain as we are. Two, to lease the company and possibly to, let's say, double the effect of the capital impact. And third, hopefully, if in two years, we'll not be in the position to need any capital support. We can also stay as we are.

Speaker 6

Perfect. Thank you.

Speaker 1

The next question is from Andrea Vercellone with Exane. Please go ahead.

Speaker 7

Just some numerical questions. On the pro family business, can you let us know how many risk weighted assets go to Argos and how many stay behind? And the same for the equity of pro family, how much goes to Argos, how much stays behind? On the net interest income for next year, can you give us an indication of the loss of NII linked to this transaction for time value split as PPA and non PPA. And then just a clarification, LGD aside, LGD waiver aside, did I understand correctly that you will roll the model either with the existing one or with the new one that you will ask for next year already to incorporate this specific transaction?

Thank you.

Speaker 2

Okay. So Mr. Bercellone, starting from the pro family RWA, we are going to keep, as I was mentioning before, we have more than two third of noncaptives. So we have almost EUR 700,000,000 staying with BPM and EUR $230,000,000 going to AGOS, which is the current percentage between non captive and captive activity. In terms of waiver is exactly as you mentioned.

As you know, we were already working on this double option to get a full waiver directly from ECB or rather to perform a new updated model incorporating the massive reduction of NPL that we performed during the last years. As I mentioned before, it's something like EUR 18,000,000,000. I think the highest ever got apart from Monte Basque, which as you know, got the waiver from ECB. Third question, I would say the time value is something between 60,000,000 and €80,000,000 For PPA, it's very easy. Each of you, I think, has its own model and we declared very clearly how much was the impact is not related to this transaction.

I think you can calculate that they basically are going almost to zero. So they still will have some small impact. But luckily enough, we are anticipating also this effect.

Speaker 6

Okay. Thank you.

Speaker 1

The next question is from Giovanni Razzoli with Equita. Please go ahead.

Speaker 8

Good morning to everybody. Thank you for the conference call. A couple of clarifications. The first one, you've said quite clear that you do expect the cost of risk in line with the business plan. But compared with the business plan here, profile of the group has dramatically improved.

So I was wondering why you are not ready to revise downward 63 basis points of cost of risk guidance for 2019. The second question is a clarification on the CET1 ratio range. You are providing us an 11%, 11.5 range even if you were to sell the entire €7,800,000,000 of NPL portfolio. While in the press release, you are actually guiding it to 11.2%, which is the September 2018 figure. I was wondering why there is this slight difference.

And I was also wondering whether this 11%, 11.5% range includes or not any benefit from the sale of the servicing platform, NPL servicing platform. So whether this range may be increased or impacted by this transaction. And the very final question, sorry, a clarification regarding the capital impact of the overall transaction. So basically, you have a capital gain on the disposal of Profameni, risk weighted asset deconsolidation, the put option, And you are guiding us with 80 basis points of positive impact on the CET1. Is it correct to assume that you have a compounded effect related to the fact that the thresholds on the CET1 are also impacted so that you get more than the capital gains that you are recording on the overall transactions?

Thank you.

Speaker 2

Good morning, Mr. Razzoli. Risk profile, it's not that we don't want to go below our guidance, not even we want to be better than our competitor, but starting from very high numbers during the last year, we think that is prudent to say that the guidance will stay the same. We are experiencing, as you know, a very good pace of reduction of also inflow. So basically, we hope to be better, but also in line with the macro that we are experiencing during these last months, we feel much more prudent to say that the ambition that we had in the business plan will remain the same.

Of course, I agree with you that the profile of the bank is so much better than in the business plan that this allow us in a normal situation. And with the terms that we assume that when we produce our business clear business plan, this could be much better than that. But I remember the growth of GDP was much better. The increase of investments was much better. The performing loans were much higher than what we are experiencing.

So give us some assumption to be a bit more prudent. As you know, we like to got the target that we have. For Common Equity Tier one, very nice question. So I can better explain. Of course, the 80 basis basis point will bring us in the range of 12.

We cannot be so precise in terms of how much will cost the disposal of NPL for the many reason I explained before. First of all, there is not yet a final bid not a final bid, a chosen bid. Secondly, we don't know exactly the rating agency how will which kind of price and the ratchet they will tranching they will have in the potential GACS transaction. Third, we have also to, let's say, try to better as much as we can the portfolio that we will gax in, let's say, so. So all these aspects give us a fork, which is quite wide.

And let's say that to again, to be prudent, we assume that can be between 1111.5%. I should say that I think it's much more on the higher side than on the lower one. But again, being also in place a competition also in order not to make understand exactly the price offered up to now, we'd rather prefer to have this new guidance. And of course, this will include the platform even though we didn't yet say how much of the platform will be sell because you know that we can keep a stake into the platform disposal. Third point, yes, of course, as much as was so painful for us after the BTP spike to have 80 basis point of damage, even though everybody was thinking the damage was much lower because of the threshold.

In this case, as we always said, when we have a capital increase, the capital increase, the capital common equity one increase will have also a further positive effect coming from the threshold and the DTA. So the 80 basis point come also from this situation.

Speaker 8

Thank you.

Speaker 1

The next question is from Riccardo Rovieri with Mediobanca. Please go ahead.

Speaker 6

Good morning. Good morning to everybody. A couple of questions if I may. The first one is on the current value, the book value of ProFamilie today in the balance sheet of Bami. I found in the annual report 2017, euros 113,000,000, sorry, for 100% of pro family.

I was wondering whether this is the right number. And if we take, let's say, onethree, roughly onethree of that for the captive business as an indication of potential capital gain from the disposal of only that part per family? The second question I have is on the amount of NPLs that we deconsolidated. There is a slide you mentioned between 7,000,000,000 and €7,800,000,000 But correct me if I'm wrong, this is the number that includes the write offs. If I compare this number, let's say, the number of NPLs that you will deconsolidate with the one currently sitting on the balance sheet, so the €10,000,000,010,100,000,000 there is a slide which says between 6,000,000,000 and €6,800,000,000 So I just was wondering whether looking at the number on the balance sheet, we should be looking at 6,800,000,000.0 or $77,800,000,000.0 And the last question I have is on the low in the capital, in the 80 basis point, you have the capital gain, the risk weighted assets reduction, the put option, so the €150,000,000 will be included immediately from day one, right?

So the 80 basis point is going to be at the completion of the transaction, so let's say mid-twenty nineteen, not in two years' time, just to be 100% sure on that. Thanks.

Speaker 2

Yes. Let's thank you, Mr. Robert. Let's start from the final one. Immediately after the conclusion of transaction, having the right to put by 2021 this 10% debt strike price, we will have this opportunity to include immediately due to CRR rules the effect into our capital.

So it's not eventual, it's sure and it will be done immediately at the conclusion of the transaction. The consolidated EUR 7,800,000,000.0, as you can see on Page seven of our presentation, we say that, first of all, this is the part not including the leasing, which will bring EUR 8,600,000,000.0, the total consideration as we announced in Q3, out of which almost 1,000,000,000 is written off. So the on balance sheet, we have 6,800,000,000.0 of balance sheet to in the write off another one So the total consideration is we indicated this between EUR 7,000,000,000 and EUR 7,800,000,000.0, including EUR 1,000,000,000 of write off. Okay. The third question, I have the number is €140,000,000 the 100% of the current pro family parties' stakeholding.

Speaker 6

And if we take onethree of that based on the split between captive and noncaptive, are we making mistakes? No.

Speaker 2

No, we keep two third, do not one Two third, yes. Yes, two third, yes, exactly.

Speaker 6

Okay, okay.

Speaker 1

The next question is from Domenico Santoro with HSBC. Please go ahead.

Speaker 9

Hi, good morning. Thanks for the presentation. I'm doing the call before the market opens. It's Domenico from HSBC. Three clarification on my side.

First of all, on the servicing company, the impact on P and L that you mentioned before, does it include also the potential cost savings that might come from the deconsolidation of the company? Second, on the range on capital that you show here in the presentation, the 11.5, my question is whether the losses related to the sale are considered before or after taxes? And then since I'm surprised as well to see this range, but you already said that you might be comfortable to see this number, not the range that you mentioned. Is this specifically related to the inclusion of the GACS in the transaction? And then the third question is on the UTP specifically.

You show in the presentation that there is €8,400,000,000 left. Given that we all were receiving the same question in terms of risk profile of the bank, going forward, now that you've got rid of the most of your nonperforming loans portfolio, Is there any one off transaction here considering the OTP or you will basically continue the normal deleveraging of the balance sheet? Thank you very much.

Speaker 2

Okay. The reduction is the gross loss, of course, of the related to the NPL disposal. It's not the net effect, it's the gross. Terms of continuing the risking, the reason why we showed the numbers of the workout on Page seven, eight point five billion related to €15,000,000,000 €16,000,000,000 of disposal. It's just to make understand that we have a very good performance also in working out.

And basically, OTB went down in the last two point five years from €12,300,000,000 to end of the year, basically, we will be below 8,000,000,000 This means that we have a capability to reduce these assets without performing disposal. But nevertheless, once we will be freed by the pressure and the willingness we had of reducing bad loans, we are considering to make maybe some transaction only related to real estate OTP, which will start to experience. But yet, we are not ready to say neither the size, neither the timing is a new things for us. We have to consider if after all these painful disposal in terms of cost, there will be some reason for accelerating through further disposal. Otherwise, we feel that the performing and working out given up to now can give confidence to the market that we will further reduce our global NPL.

Sorry, but I didn't get sorry, no, the platform the cost on the platform. Of course, we will sell the platform. So I would say that the cost of servicing will be basically offset by the cost by the lower cost of personnel. So it will be an impact almost even, no effect basically, no substantial effect on profit and loss. I didn't get maybe one of your question.

Speaker 9

I think we are fine. It's okay. Thank you very

Speaker 2

much. Okay. Thank you. The

Speaker 1

next question is from Ignacio Cerezo with UBS. Please go ahead.

Speaker 5

Yeah. Hi. Good morning. Quick couple of follow ups for me. First one is your best approximation in terms of NPL ratio by the end of the business plan.

I know it's probably early actually to have a very firm view. But considering the organic trends you're seeing, actually, where do you think your NPL total NPL ratio is going be falling by the end of next year? And the second thing is the €1,600,000,000 bad loans outside the leasing business. If you can give us a bit of color in terms of what they are? I'm assuming some of them are residential mortgages, but just to confirm that.

Thank you.

Speaker 2

So the first question, we had many business plans. So just for the sake of this year, the original business plan, the one who had to terminate at, let's say, 1817.9% by 2019 will be for sure below 10%. We haven't yet made all the calculation due to the GACS and the further disposal further workout we are doing during the year, but we have confidence that it can be below 10% by 2019. Of course, you know that we had done also another business plan, which was done in March, expiring in 2020, and this is yet to be redone. But I don't feel really there is a need right now to give guidance on that.

There would be a reduction driven mainly by the workout of UTP. Can you please repeat the last question?

Speaker 5

On the 1,600,000,000.0 on the €1,600,000,000 bad loans you show on Slide nine, of the 3,300,000,000.0 remaining €1,600,000,000 sorry, 1,700,000,000.0 is leasing, 1,600,000,000.0 is others. If you can give us some color on that other number.

Speaker 2

Yes. Basically, part of the bad leasing is, I think, quite well explained on the right part of the slide. The vast majority, 60%, I would say, was coming from the release activity. As you know, release was a platform in which we have almost 90% together with other two former cooperative banks. This is going to be reduced quarter by quarter quite massively.

There are big sites normally and almost all real estate related. The other part is the part of leasing we had inherited by BPM and a small part of Banco BPM. And of course, the reduction in this sense is a bit slower than in release where we have a target of going down as quickly as possible. In terms of other bad loans bank on the banking book, they are almost all the loans related to the exclusion from the ACE portfolio, So the one in which we have negative passive claims or procedure well ahead, which not allowed us to be inserted into the ACE transaction. So basically, the one that are more close, if you want, to the finalization normally provisioned when we have to just check the procedure in order to go ahead.

Speaker 5

Thank you. Gentlemen,

Speaker 1

there are no more questions registered at this time. Excuse me, there is one more question from Delphine Lee with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Speaker 10

Yes. If I could just have one last question, sorry. Just on the 80 basis points, I assume that doesn't include the RWA relief that you would get, I mean, similar to the Exodus transaction where you got RWA reduction of 25%, 30% of the gross book value. I would assume that you would get that as well end of next year. Just wanted to confirm that as well.

Thank you.

Speaker 2

Yes, it should be all in the next year. Of course, we will perform whatever conclude by the year end in the Q4, but most probably all the civilistic effect will be by 2019.

Speaker 10

Great. Thank you very much. Bye.

Speaker 1

There is a follow-up question from Riccardo Rovare with Mediobanca. Please go ahead.

Speaker 6

Yes, thanks for taking my follow-up question. Just a quick clarification. When you provide us with the targeted or expected pro form a gross NPE ratio after the ACCE transaction, the denominator, the gross loans, do this number include the GACs senior notes, which if I remember well is €1,500,000,000 €1,600,000,000 or not? Thanks.

Speaker 2

This is I would say this is static. So of course, the exodus senior tranche is included because this is amongst our loans, of course, not the new one, which is only a forecast of the new loans performance next year. Okay. There

Speaker 1

are no more questions registered at this time.

Speaker 2

So thank you all very much. Of course, our IR will be available for any further clarification. Hopefully, really I hope that this has been very useful for you in order to understand the completion of our plan. And I look forward to have another conference call for the Q4 results. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining. The conference is now over. You may disconnect your telephones.

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