senior capital and preferred senior capital equivalent to a
total of DKK 1,986 million in the first nine months of the
In terms of liquidity, the bank must comply with the
statutory requirement of at least 100% for both the
liquidity ratios LCR and NSFR.
NSFR 118%. The bank thus met the statutory requirement
for both ratios by a good margin.
Capital structure
10,451 million. The profit for the period must be added to
this, while the dividend paid,
own shares bought must be subtracted. After this, equity
at the end of September 2024 was DKK 10,825 million.
When computing the common equity tier 1, ongoing
earnings contribute 35%, and the full share buyback
programme totalling DKK 1,525 million was deducted
from the common equity tier 1 in the first quarter of 2024.
The capital ratios will thus improve gradually in step with
the recognition of ongoing earnings, but with the biggest
effect in the fourth quarter of 2024.
were 18.8% and 15.6% respectively at the end of
September 2024.
The part of the share buyback programme which has not
yet been bought back has already been deducted from
the capital, and, as shown above, the bank can only
include 35% of ongoing earnings in the capital. This
influences the capital ratios. Adjusted for these two
circumstances, the tier 1 capital ratio would have been
18.8% on 30 September 2024.
Calculated without the IFRS 9 transition programmes,
capital ratio was 18.4% and the tier 1 capital ratio 15.2%
on 30 September 2024.
The individual solvency requirement at the end of
September 2024 was calculated as 8.9%.
The capital conservation buffer of 2.5% and the
countercyclical buffer also of 2.5% should be added to
this.
Finally, the sector-specific systemic buffer results in an
addition of 0.8%. The sector-specific systemic buffer for
exposures to real estate companies was activated at a
rate of 7%, see below.
Real estate companies are firms engaged in activities
under the
exempt from the buffer. In addition, the part of the
secured exposures in the 0-15% loan-to-value range is
exempt from the calculation.
14.7% at the end of September 2024.
In December 2023, the bank received an updated MREL
requirement of 18.9% from the Danish FSA, applicable
from the beginning of 2024. The Danish FSA at the same
time notified the bank of a subordination requirement of
22.8%.
The subordination requirement must be met, at a
minimum, with non-preferred senior capital, while the
difference between the MREL requirement plus the
combined capital buffer requirements and the
subordination requirement can be met with preferred
senior capital.
Both the MREL requirement and the subordination
requirement must always be met.
To meet the MREL requirement, the bank has issued non-
preferred senior capital over time. At the end of
September 2024, non-preferred senior capital equivalent
to DKK 3.8 billion had been issued. In the first nine
months of the year, the bank entered into agreements on
new issues of non-preferred senior capital equivalent to
DKK 1,262 million, of which the equivalent of DKK 330
million was not disbursed until the beginning of October
2024.
At the end of September 2024, the bank had issued
preferred senior capital equivalent to DKK 596 million,
which complies with the eligibility provisions and can be
used to cover the difference between the MREL
requirement plus the combined capital buffer
requirements and the subordination requirement.
For further information on capital, please see pages 17-
18 of this quarterly report.
The bank operates with three different capital targets.
The capital targets specify that the common equity tier 1
capital ratio must be at least 13.5%, the total capital ratio
at least 17.0% and the MREL capital ratio for covering the