Bank Millennium S.A. Senior Bonds

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Project ID 46319

Status Complete

Location

Poland

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 46319

Status Complete

Location

Poland

Business Sector

Financial Institutions

Notice Type

Private

Environmental Category

Approval Date

07 Mar 2014

Disclosure date

29 Jun 2015

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."

Translated version of this PSD: Polish

Project Description

The EBRD is considering investments in a series of senior unsecured bonds to be issued by Bank Millennium S.A. (“Millennium”) on the Polish capital market in local currency. The Project comes under the Polish Financial Institutions Debt Capital Market Framework launched in December 2013 and extended further in December 2014.

Initial investment of the EBRD in Millennium’s senior unsecured bonds was approved and took place in March 2014. Potential subsequent investments were approved on 10 June 2015.

The bonds will support Millennium’s sustained access to medium-term funding via the domestic debt capital market and facilitate its loan portfolio growth. They will allow the bank to diversify its funding base and strengthen its liquidity profile. As a consequence Millennium will be able to expand its presence and activities on the domestic market which is expected to benefit real sector of the economy.

Transition Impact

The transition impact is derived from:

Market expansion: the proposed bond issuance will contribute to further building the critical mass of outstanding quality non-sovereign capital market instruments needed to create pricing benchmarks, develop market liquidity and attract institutional investors in Poland.
Demonstration of balance sheet restructuring towards longer term liabilities which will match long term assets.
Maintaining high standards for transparency and reporting.

The Client

Bank Millennium S.A is Poland’s 7th biggest bank by assets as of YE 2014. It is a universal bank with the focus on retail banking and strengthening position in corporate sector, offering its services via 418 branches and electronic banking channels. The bank is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and majority owned by Banco Comercial Portugues (50.1%), the second largest bank in Portugal.

EBRD Finance

Investment in the senior unsecured bonds of PLN 42 million in March 2014. Potential subsequent investments were approved on 10 June 2015, with PLN 60 million invested in June 2015.

Project Cost

Up to PLN 102 million.

Environmental and social categorisation, impact, and mitigation

Categorised FI. Millennium is required to comply with EBRD's Performance Requirements 2 and 9 and submit annual reports to the EBRD on environmental and social matters and on the implementation of the Performance Requirements.

For Category A projects, this section will need to be updated on an annual basis.

Technical Cooperation

None.

Company Contact

Pawel Rawa – Director of Financial Institutions Department

E-mail: pawel.rawa@bankmillennium.pl

Transition impact

ETI Score:75

PSD last updated

01 Feb 2019

Business opportunities

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Environmental and Social Documentation is not available for this project.

Selected procurement notices related to this project may be shown below. Further procurement opportunities related to this and other projects, if available, maybe be viewed in the EBRD Procurement Portal.

The EBRD's Environmental and Social Policy (ESP), Access to Information policy (AIP) and Project Accountability Policy (PAP) enable sound and sustainable development in its projects. The Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM) deals with complaints about environmental, social and disclosure matters related to the Bank’s investments.

No complaints about this project have been made so far.

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