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Deepak Taneja
Treasury Department
Asian Development Bank
Agenda
Overview of ADB’s Financial Products for OCR
Borrowers
LIBOR-Based Loan (LBL)
• Background
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Overview: ADB Financial
Products
LIBOR-Based Loan Debt Management
Foreign Currency
Products
Cost-efficient access to
Liability Management
foreign currencies
Allow active portfolio
Long tenors
risk management of
Wide choice of currency and interest rate
currencies Borrower’s exposure
Flexible repayment
terms
Debt Management
Debt management Strategy
features
Risk Mitigation Credit
Local Currency Enhancement
Local Currency Loan Products
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LIBOR-Based Loan (LBL)
LBL
Main Features – Sovereign Borrowers
Prepayment
And
Cancellation
Currency
Composition
Repayment
Terms
Conversion
Options
LBL Front-end
Fee
(Eliminated)
Local
Currency
Conversion Commitment
Charge
6-month LIBOR /
6-month EURIBOR/ Lending Rebate/
Floating rate Rate Surcharge
benchmark for other
currencies
Effective
Contractual
Spread
* Applicable only to sovereign LBLs that carry a lending spread of 0.60% per annum.
LBL ADB’s Advantages
By using the interest rate and currency conversion and options
embedded in LBL, borrowers enjoy the following main
advantages:
ADB’s AAA Credit Rating ensures that the borrower get favorable
pricing and terms with no additional credit spread/premium
charges.
Since such derivatives features are embedded in the LBL
product, they are considered an integral part of the loan,
therefore, no additional credit approval is required for such
request.
ADB’s transparent cost-pass through treatment ensures that the
borrower achieve satisfactory terms and pricing and take full
advantages of ADB’s extensive and sound banking networks.
ADB is not profit-driven but aims to help the borrowers to
achieve their debt management goals using available risk
management features under LBL.
LBL Interest Rate Conversions
Borrowers may change the interest rate basis of their loan:
at disbursement,
at any time following disbursement
at regular time intervals (Specified Rate Fixing by Period),
or
When disbursement reaches a threshold amount
(Specified Rate Fixing by Amount)
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*Notional Amount $200M; Loan 100% Maturity
capped, Transaction fee 1/16%
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LBL Currency Conversions
Asset-Liability Management
Market movements (ex: timing, current rates, yield curve, volatility, opportunity
gain/loss or risk based decision, scenario analysis)
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LBL Sample Conversions and Local Currency Financing
LCL Background
LBLs are available in US Dollars, Yen, Euro and other major currencies.
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Local Currency Loan (LCL)
LCL
Main Features
Pool-based Back-to-back
Funding Funding
Local
Currency
Funding
Options
Lending
LCL
Interest rate Conversion
Conversion Options Rate
Front End
Fee Pool-
Back-to-
based
back
Fundin
Commitment Funding
g
Charge
Local ADB’s cost
floating-rate of a funding
benchmark transaction,
including
related swap
Rebate or
costs
Surcharge
LCL Interest Rate Conversions
Borrowers may request an interest rate conversion:
from Floating to Fixed rate, or vice-versa, and
for all or part of disbursed balance or remaining life
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Debt Management
Product Benefits for the DMCs
Bypass the minimum credit rating requirement for the comprehensive access of the
debt management products.
Sovereign Credit Ratings Table (as of 18 February 2011 )
Fiji B- Philippines BB
Mongolia BB- Kazakhstan BBB
Pakistan B- India BBB-
Sri Lanka B+ Thailand BBB+
Turkmenistan1 WR Georgia B+ 16
Source: Bloomberg; All ratings by S&P, except where indicated 1by Moody’s:
Armenia1 Ba2 Azerbaijan BB+
Debt Management
Product Benefits for the DMCs
More favorable transaction pricing on the swaps, as well as
longer maturity terms
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Debt Management When to Use ADB Debt
Product
Products?
Government may have a target sovereign benchmark
with respect to currencies and mix of floating/fixed rates
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Debt Management Required Actions for using debt
Product management products
The client must submit formal request for such debt
management products with sound justification and rationale.
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Summary
LIBOR-Based Loan (LBL) is a market-based loan
product that allows ADB’s efficient intermediation on
the finest possible terms, provides transparent and
market-based pricing.
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Thank You.
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Appendix
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LBL
LIBOR-Based Loan (LBL)
Main Features – Sovereign Borrowers
USD, JPY, Euro, and other
LBL Negotiated Currency currencies in which ADB can
after 1 July 2010 efficiently intermediate
till 30 June 2011 Normally 5 - 25 years depending on
Item Project/Program Maturity
Loan Type
A. Interest Normally 3 - 5 Years depending on
Cost Basis Grace Period
Loan Type
(Adjusted every 6 months 6-Month
Fixed at Loan Signing
on every Interest Payment LIBOR
- Annuity
Date)
- Straight - line
Funding
Rebate/Surcharge Amortization - Custom - tailored
Cost
(Adjusted every 6 months - Bullet
Under/Over
as calculated by ADB)
LIBOR Linked to Actual Disbursements
Effective Contractual - Straight - line
Spread * 0.30% Interest Rate Conversion
B. Front-End Fee (bps) 0 From floating to fixed or vice versa
C. Commitment Charge
(Applied on full amount 0.15% Interest Rate Cap and Collar
Conversion
of undisbursed balance)
Options
Currency Conversion
For all or part of both undisbursed
and disbursed loan amounts.
Currency Conversions
Undisbursed loan amounts
0.0625%
Disbursed loan amount
0.125%
Local Currency conversion
0.02% p.a.
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USD 6 Month LIBOR : 1991-2011
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USD 10 year Swap FIX Rate :1988-2011
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Historical Yield Spread : USD 6 month LIBOR vs USD 10
year Swap FIX rate
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Bernard Lim
HSBC
Derivatives Usage in Financing
Activities
Issue in floating rate and interest rate
Finding Cost swap
Effective Funding Issue in foreign currency and currency
Source swap into local currency
Issue callable liability and monetise the
optionality
Pre-issuance hedge
• e.g., Treasury Lock
Hedging Post-issuance hedge
• Currency swap, currency options
Emerging
• Brazil • Japan
39%
• Mexico • Australia
KRW
G4 • China
Emerging
• Thailand
G4 • Indonesia
49%
• India
• Singapore
• Due to different investors appetite in different capital markets, very often we see sovereign/public
entities able to raise cheaper/longer money in developed foreign capital markets (US, UK, Japan or
Europe) through bond issuance, or increasingly through private placements in emerging markets.
However, currency mismatch could produce a currency risk.
• Currency swaps could be used in this case to swap the bond issuance currency into the functional
currency of the company.
Private Placement - Issuer Motivation
Pros and Cons
• Pros
– Many issuers consider MTNs/private placements to be a tactical
vehicle for cheap, cost efficient funding (i.e., expensive for investors)
– An alternative to the public markets to provide investor
diversification, maturity smoothing (avoiding concentrated
redemptions which bring refinancing risk)
– Access to non-core markets
– Retail
– Local currencies
– An opportunity to fund privately without impacting secondary
spreads and/or any disclosure of their cost of funding to the market
• Cons
– Transaction cost and time to market are negligible if the issuer has a
documentation shelf (programme) in place
– Issues may be vanilla or highly structured. This means that active
issuers need to have the infrastructure to handle ancilliary concerns
relating to the bond and swap cash flows (e.g., accounting, tax etc.)
– Ticket size usually smaller than benchmark size
Investor Motivation
Pros and Cons
• Pros
– A custom product which is designed to match an investor’s …
– Maturity, Structure, other investment criteria including ALM objectives
– Currency (when issuers only issue ‘benchmarks’ in core currencies)
– Get access to a credit when you choose rather than waiting for the issuer’s
strategic funding objectives to be fulfilled
– Opportunity to gain exposure to structured products in a securitised form
(including warrants representing a securitised option)
– Employ simple strategies to boost yield and enhance returns
– Fixed callables vs. Fixed Bullets
– Forward starting bonds benefitting from upward sloping yield curve
– Opportunity to fill in holes in asset profile
• Cons
– Credit spreads may be tighter than more liquid, public deals
– Generally less liquid than public, syndicated issues
– Transactions are not delivered on a platter and require more effort from sales and
the investor
Asian Currency Issuance
Singapore 4% 6% 3% 9%
Malaysia 17% 14% 10% 9%
Korea
India 19% 20% 22% 27% Taiwan
India
Thailand 8% 11% 10% 7% Thailand
Indonesia
Indonesia 3% 1% 3% 3% Vietnam
Philippines
Vietnam 1% 0% 0% 0%
Philippines 1% 2% 2% 1%
Use of Swaps - Immunization
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Key Features
• Issuer issues in the currency investor want
There is no need to actually • The Issuer effectively hedges the cost of issuance:
exchange securities − By doing a Treasury Lock, the Issuer either makes money from the
Lock contract when the Treasury yield rises, or and loses money when
the Treasury yield drops
Advantages:
• No daily mark-to-market − The Issuer’s bond coupon will increase when the Treasury yield rises,
but the gain from the Treasury Lock contract will offset the increment
• No daily maintenance margin
in the bond coupon (and vice versa)
• No daily accounting entries
• No on-going repo transactions
• FAS 133 compliant as hedge of • Settlement of a Treasury Lock
forecasted transaction − If the actual Treasury yield on the settlement date is above the Lock
• Creates contingent credit Rate, then the Issuer is credited for the present value of the difference
exposure in rates. This will offset the impact of the higher rate on the actual
bond issue
− If the actual Treasury yield is below the Lock Rate, then the Issuer is
Disadvantages:
debited for the present value of the difference in rates. This will offset
• Sacrifice the opportunity of a the
Indicative benefit
T-Lock of(as
Pricing theoflower rate
14 March on the actual bond issue
2011)
lower benchmark rate if rate
drops
• T-Locks can be arranged for a specific Treasury issue or for the
“then on-the-run” Treasury
Settlement Date
Swap Lock
A Swap Lock is an interest • A Swap Lock is a customised agreement that fixes the yield on a
rate swap (“IRS”)
specified swap rate for a specific period (the “Lock Rate”). The
transaction which targets to
lock in the benchmark rate buyer of the swap lock is protected from a rise in the yield of the
in pricing a bond issue underlying reference swap rate during the lock period
• The rate to be received by the Issuer in the Swap Lock should equal
Advantages:
to the benchmark rate to be paid in the bond issue. The effective
• Eliminate swap rate risk all-in rate for the bond issue, as a result of the swap lock, will be
• No upfront cost equal to the Lock Rate plus the Credit Spread
• Can be early terminated
easily • Terms of a Swap Lock:
• FAS 133 compliant as hedge − Lock period: [from now to the target bond pricing date]
of forecasted transaction − Tenor: [equal to the bond tenor]
• Due to better liquidity, the − Issuer pays a fixed rate
swap lock offers more
competitive pricing in − Issuer receives a rate to be determined at the end of the Lock period,
hedging the benchmark rate equal to the prevailing Mid Swap Rate for the tenor
than the − The settlement can be upfront by discounting the differential between the
T-lock above 2 rates. It can also be settled over time, as the differential will be
settled every 6 months up until the maturity of the transaction
Disadvantages: Indicative Swap Lock Pricing (as of 14 March 2011)
Settlement Date
3. Cashflow
Management
Cashflow Management
Payment timing –
Payment timing - investor issuer desire
desire
Investor Issuer Bank
Payment timing -
investor desire
Key Features
• Issuer make payments tailored to meet investors demand – e.g., bullet
bond
• Issuer swaps back to match the cashflow it expects
• OR
• Issuer to lock in the rate in the prevailing market
Capitalised Interest
• Projects may not have cashflow to pay for interest at the
construction period/ early stage of operation period
USD 3-month
LIBOR
Fixed Rate Collection Account
• Projects which collect cash daily (more frequently), and loan principal repayment annually
(less frequently) may use this
Cash Collection
Loan/Bond Repayment
Example
Securitisation Bond
[Securitisation Bonds] • Proceeds used to partially finance the development and construction
484,000 sq Bangkok Government Office Centre Project on Chawattan
THB10.3bn Road in Bangkok, to be leased by the Treasury DepartmentTD)( and
housing 28 government agencies (T he Project)
Joint Principal Advisors
Joint Bookrunner, Joint Lead Arranger and • Payments under the Bonds are collateralised by a 30-Year lease with t
Joint Lead Manager Treasury Department(TD)
Transaction Highlights
November 2005
• THB10.3bn was raised by DAD, part of total THB24bn Programme si
• Largest securitisation deal in Thailand to date (by issue volume)
[XXX] • 1st securitisation to be publicly offered to retail investors in Thailand
Date • 1st bond issue in Thailand to be simultaneously offered to retail and
institutional investors
[Comment]
• 1st future flow securitisation transaction in Thailand to date
• 1st infrastructure-related securitisation transaction in Thailand to date
• 1st real estate related securitisation transaction in Thailand to date
• 1st transaction rated by both Fitch and TRIS
Dhanarak Asset Development THB10.3bn
Securitisation Bonds
Transaction Highlights
Collection Accounts
(3) Interest and principal on
Reserves the Securitisation Bonds
Investors
Dhanarak Asset Development THB9.5bn
Securitisation Bond
Achieved All Key Objectives of the Government of Thailand(GOT):
Project DAD raised the funds necessary for the preliminary phase of construction of th
Implementation 484,000 sq Bangkok Government Center within the MOF’s timeframe
DAD entered into long-term interest rate swap with HSBC prior to Closing Dat
Mitigation of in order to lock-in a fixed interest income on cash flow accumulating in Princip
Interest Rate Risk Reserve over time, to fund principal repayment on THB10.3bn bonds, in Nov
2012, 2015, 2020, 2025