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40 Securitisations continued
A summary of the main transactions, and the assets and liabilities and the financial risks arising from these transactions, is set out below:
Transfers of financial assets that do not result in derecognition
Securitisations
The Group was party to securitisation transactions involving its residential mortgage loans, business loans and credit card balances. In addition,
the Group acts as a conduit for commercial paper, whereby it acquires static pools of residential mortgage loans from other lending institutions for
securitisation transactions.
In these transactions, the assets, interests in the assets, or beneficial interests in the cash flows arising from the assets, are transferred to a special
purpose entity, which then issues interest bearing debt securities to third-party investors.
Securitisations may, depending on the individual arrangement, result in continued recognition of the securitised assets and the recognition of the
debt securities issued in the transaction. Partial continued recognition of the assets to the extent of the Group’s continuing involvement in those
assets can also occur or derecognition of the assets and the separate recognition, as assets or liabilities, of any rights and obligations created or
retained in the transfer.
The following table shows the carrying amount of securitised assets that have not resulted in full derecognition, together with the associated
liabilities, for each category of asset on the balance sheet:
2012 2011
Assets Liabilities Assets Liabilities
Carrying
amount
£m
Fair Value
£m
Carrying
amount
£m
Fair Value
£m
Carrying
amount
£m
Fair Value
£m
Loans and advances to customers
Residential mortgage loans 5,545 5,129 (5,066) (4,600) 7,946 (8,085)
Credit cards, unsecured and other retail lending 6,944 7,015 (5,519) (5,542) 4,059 (3,477)
Corporate loans 944 798 (809) (679) 1,391 (1,428)
Total 13,433 12,942 (11,394) (10,821) 13,396 (12,990)
Assets designated at fair value through profit or loss
Retained interest in residential mortgage loans 12 n/a – n/a 1 –
Balances included within loans and advance to customers represent securitisations where substantially all the risks and rewards of the asset have
been retained by the Group.
The relationship between the transferred assets and the associated liabilities is that holders of notes may only look to cash flows from the
securitised assets for payments of principal and interest due to them under the terms of their notes, although the contractual terms of their notes
may be different to the maturity and interest of the transferred assets.
Retained interests in residential mortgage loans are securities which represent a continuing exposure to the prepayment and credit risk in the
underlying securitised assets. The carrying amount of the loans before transfer was £16m (2011: £2,299m). The retained interest is initially
recorded as an allocation of the original carrying amount based on the relative fair values of the portion derecognised and the portion retained.
For transfers of assets in relation to repurchase agreements, see Notes 22 and 42.
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