KBC Group: KBC successfully completes a significant risk transfer transaction on a 1.25 billion euros corporate loan portfolio

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KBC Group has successfully completed a second significant risk transfer transaction, placing credit-linked notes with institutional investors to cover first loss exposure on a 1.25 billion euro corporate loan portfolio. This strategic move is expected to result in a risk-weighted asset saving of approximately 0.7 billion euros, thereby strengthening KBC Group's unfloored fully loaded CET1 ratio by approximately 8 basis points as of the second quarter of 2026, aligning with its capital deployment policy and strategy to optimize risk-weighted assets for further growth.

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In line with the capital deployment policy of KBC and the strategy to optimise RWA in order to strengthen the capital ratio and support further growth, KBC has successfully completed a second significant risk transfer transaction on a 1.25 billion euros corporate loan portfolio.

KBC Group is pleased to announce the completion of a second Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) transaction. The risk transfer is achieved via the placement of credit linked notes to institutional investors, covering first loss exposure on a 1.25 billion euros portfolio originated by the corporate banking department of KBC Bank.

This transaction will lead to a risk-weighted assets saving of approximately 0.7 billion euros and as such strengthen the unfloored fully loaded CET1 ratio of KBC Group by approximately 8 basis points as of the second quarter of 2026.

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