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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) received a new communication from the Bank of Spain on June 12, 2025, detailing its Minimum Requirement for own funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL) set by the Single Resolution Board, which supersedes a previous communication from March 27, 2024. Based on financial information as of December 31, 2023, the new MREL requires BBVA to hold 23.13% of total risk-weighted assets (RWAs) with 13.50% subordinated, and 8.59% of total exposure for the leverage ratio (LR) with 5.66% subordinated. BBVA's current structure of own funds and eligible liabilities complies with these MREL and subordination requirements.
| Date | 12 Jun 2025 |
| Time | 18:22:07 |
| Category | Miscellaneous |
| ID | 6779M |
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. ("BBVA"), in accordance with the Securities Market legislation, hereby communicates the following:
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
As of today, BBVA has received a new communication from the Bank of Spain regarding the determination of its Minimum Requirement for own funds and Eligible Liabilities ("MREL"), set by the Single Resolution Board ("SRB"), which is applicable from the date of its receipt and which has been calculated taking into account the financial and supervisory information as of December 31, 2023. This new communication repeals and supersedes the previous communication, which content was communicated to the market through an Inside Information notice published on March 27, 2024 (with registration number 2188).
In accordance with the communication received, BBVA must keep a volume of own funds and eligible liabilities representing at least a 23.13% of the total risk-weighted assets ("RWAs") of its resolution group, on a sub consolidated[1] level (the "MREL in RWAs"), of which 13.50% of the RWAs of its resolution group should be met with subordinated instruments (the "subordination requirement in RWAs").
Additionally, BBVA must keep a volume of own funds and eligible liabilities in terms of total exposure considered for the purposes of calculating the leverage ratio of the 8.59% (the "MREL in LR"), of which 5.66% in terms of total exposure considered for the purposes of calculating the leverage ratio should be fulfilled with subordinated instruments (the "subordination requirement in LR").
The MREL in RWAs and the subordination requirement in RWAs do not include the combined capital buffer requirement applicable which, in accordance with current regulations and supervisory criteria, would stand at 3.65%.
The current structure of own funds and eligible liabilities of the resolution group complies with the MREL in RWAs, with the MREL in LR, with the subordination requirement in RWAs and with the subordination requirement in LR.
Madrid, June 12, 2025
[1] In accordance with the MPE resolution strategy ("Multiple Point of Entry") of BBVA Group, as established by the SRB, the resolution group consists of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. and subsidiaries belonging to the same European resolution group. As of December 31, 2023, the RWAs of the resolution group amounted to 214,757 million euros and the total exposure considered for calculating the leverage ratio amounted to 517,470 million euros.