Luminor senior bonds (EBRD-50023)

Regions
  • Europe and Central Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Estonia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
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
FI
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
May 23, 2018
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
Luminor Bank AS
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Finance
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 175.64 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 EUR 150
Converted using 2018-05-23 exchange rate.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 175.64 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.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 409.83 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 EUR 350
Converted using 2018-05-23 exchange rate.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ EBRD website

Updated in EWS Mar 12, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Oct 18, 2018

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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 EBRD website, the project aims to support the Issuer raise medium-term funding in the capital markets in order to diversify the funding sources and establish itself as a self-sustainable pan-Baltic financial institution. Further, it will support the resilience of the financial sector and markets by: 

(i) increasing the supply of investable listed instruments for local pension funds and other institutional investors

(ii) helping the diversification of the funding sources for the Issuer and decreasing the dependence on the parents and

(iii) supporting an orderly replacement of two Nordic banks, while mitigating the risk to stable and competitive financial intermediation in the Baltic countries.

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

The Issuer belongs to the Luminor Group. The Luminor Group currently comprises Luminor Group AB and its direct and indirect subsidiaries in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Luminor Group AB, the holding company established in Sweden, has Nordea Bank Abp ("Nordea", Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Sweden) merged into Nordea Bank Abp (Finland) on 1 October 2018) and DNB Bank ASA ("DNB") as its main shareholders, based on an agreement to merge their Baltic operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Luminor Group AB owns 100% of the shares of the Issuer, as well as of Luminor Latvia and Luminor Lithuania.

Luminor Group is the third largest financial services group on the Baltic market in terms of total assets and customer loans and deposits (according to the financial statements published by Baltic banks), providing retail, corporate and private banking as well as other financial services.


Contact Information
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Project Contact: Max Ehrengren
Email Address: info@luminor.ee; max.ehrengren@luminorgroup.com
Telephone No.: +372 628 3300; +3726283201
Website: https://www.luminor.ee/en 
Office Address: Luminor Bank A.S. Liivalaia 45 10145 Tallinn Estonia

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, 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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