NLB - Senior Loan (Nova Ljubljanska Banka)

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Project ID 40817

Status Complete

Location

Regional

Business Sector

Financial Institutions

Notice Type

Private

Project timeline

Exploratory
Passed Concept Review
Passed Structure Review
Passed Final Review
Board Approved
Signed
Implementing
Completed

Project ID 40817

Status Complete

Location

Regional

Business Sector

Financial Institutions

Notice Type

Private

Environmental Category

Approval Date

07 Dec 2010

Disclosure date

25 Oct 2010

As per section 1.4.2 (iii) of the Directive on Access to Information: "For Projects approved by Bank management where the Board of Directors has delegated the approval authority, the PSD shall be disclosed at the start of the relevant no-objection notification period to a member country of the Bank in accordance with Article 13 (iii) of the Agreement Establishing the EBRD."

Project Description

The EBRD is considering granting a 5-year, senior unsecured loan of €50 million to Nova Ljubljanska Banka dd (“NLB”) to support NLB’s subsidiaries in the Western Balkans. The loan will be used for on lending to NLB’s banking subsidiaries in the region for further on lending to the local SME sector in the respective countries.

Transition Impact

The credit line will be supporting significant regional player with strong commitment to Western Balkans and should facilitate lending to the real economy. In the Western Balkans, SMEs remain under pressure for funding. EBRD line aims at helping the recovery and the growth of the real economy and encouraging the banks to increase their lending to this sector.

The Client

Nova Ljubljanska Banka d.d. (“NLB”) is the largest bank in Slovenia with a market share of over 30 percent. NLB is 51.1 percent directly and indirectly owned by the Republic of Slovenia and 30.6 percent by KBC Bank N.V. NLB has a strong and a long standing commitment to the Western Balkans region where it has banking subsidiaries in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and FYR of Macedonia among others.

EBRD Finance

€30 million senior unsecured loan.

Project Cost

€30 million.

Environmental Impact

NLB and NLB Subsidiaries will be required to comply with EBRD’s Environmental Performance Requirement (“PR”) 9 when making local loans, conduct their business in accordance with PR 2, adhere to the EBRD's Environmental and Social Exclusion and Referral Lists, and submit Annual Environmental and Social Reports to the Bank. The subsidiary borrowers will be required to comply with applicable national environmental, health and safety and labour requirements.

Technical Cooperation

None.

Company Contact

Valerija Pešec, Senior Manager

E-mail: Valerija.Pesec@nlb.si

PSD last updated

01 Feb 2019

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Environmental and Social Documentation is not available for this project.

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