Ships with wings
The EBA have decided that they really don’t think it is a good idea that aircraft pfandbrief get a preferential risk weight along with other types of covered bond. Economically that is fairly trivial, there are only €1bn of these bonds outstanding and, since it is doubtful that many are held in banking books, it is questionable if they would get any benefit from a better risk weighting.
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