UniCredit Romania Synthetic Securitisation (EBRD-55695)

Countries
  • Romania
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 12, 2025
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
UniCredit Bank S.A.
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Finance
  • Industry and Trade
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Guarantee
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 84.31 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported 77.45
Converted using 2025-03-12 exchange rate.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 84.31 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported 77.45
Converted using 2025-03-12 exchange rate.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ EBRD website

Updated in EWS Aug 9, 2025

Disclosed by Bank Apr 7, 2025

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, the project consists of a EUR 77.5 million credit protection to UniCredit Bank S.A. ("UniCredit Romania"), a bank incorporated in Romania, through participation in a synthetic securitisation of a portfolio of performing SME and corporate loans, originated by UniCredit Romania. The structure employs an unfunded guarantee, which transfers the credit risk of the mezzanine tranche of the securitised portfolio to EBRD. The transaction is part of the UniCredit Group A.R.T.S. program related to Significant Risk Transfer transactions.

The project will enable UniCredit Romania to strengthen its financial resilience and expand its lending capacity to the real economy. UniCredit Romania has committed to providing new financing to Romanian SMEs and corporates redeploying the capital relief achieved through the project. Of this new financing, an amount equal to 120% of the EBRD guarantee will be dedicated to GET-eligible projects, supporting climate action and environmental sustainability.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

Category FI (2019 ESP). UniCredit Bank S.A. Romania is an existing client well known to the EBRD through previous exposures.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

An unfunded guarantee of EUR 77,457,438.00 under a synthetic securitisation.

Financial Intermediary
A financial intermediary is a bank or financial institution that receives funds from a development bank. A financial intermediary then lends these funds to their clients (private actors) in the form of loans, bonds, guarantees and equity shares. Financial intermediaries include insurance, pension and equity funds. The direct financial relationship is between the development bank and the financial intermediary.
Private Actors Description
A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

UniCredit Bank S.A. is a systemically important bank in Romania and a member of UniCredit Group, a pan-European commercial banking group operating in Italy, Germany, and Central and Eastern Europe.

UniCredit Bank S.A. is rated BBB+ (negative) by Fitch as of March 2025.


Contact Information
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COMPANY CONTACT INFORMATION

www.unicredit.ro
Bd. Expozitiei Nr. 1F, Sect. 1, Bucuresti, Cod Postal 012101, Romania

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF EBRD

The Project Complaint Mechanism (PCM) is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who have been or are likely to be adversely affected by an European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the PCM, it may assess compliance with EBRD's own policies and procedures to prevent harm to the environment or communities or it may assist you in resolving the problem that led to the complaint through a dialogue with those implementing the project. Additionally, the PCM has the authority to recommend a project be suspended in the event that harm is imminent.

You can contact the PCM at: pcm@ebrd.com or you can submit a complaint online using an online form at: http://www.ebrd.com/eform/pcm/complaint_form?language=en

You can learn more about the PCM and how to file a complaint at: http://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/project-finance/project-complaint-mechanism.html

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