EUR 1,663m of structured securities affected
London, 26 September 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has upgraded the ratings on the
following 25 series of repack notes issued by Premium Green PLC:
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-1
....Series 2006-1 EUR 100,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3; previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-2
....Series 2006-2 EUR 100,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.52 per cent Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-3
....Series 2006-3 Euro 100,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.56 per cent Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-4
....Series 2006-4 EUR 100,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3; previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-5
....Series 2006-5 Euro 300,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.54 per cent Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-6
....Series 2006-6 Euro 100,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.5575 per cent Notes due 2021,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-7
....Series 2006-7 Euro 30,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.70 per cent Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-8
....Series 2006-8 Euro 30,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-9
....Series 2006-9 Euro 50,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.33 per cent Notes due 2021, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2006-11
....Series 2006-11 Euro 30,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.30% Fixed Rate Notes due 2021,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-1
....Series 2007-1 EUR 70,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Notes due 2022, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-3
....Series 2007-3 EUR 25,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse Variable Interest Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-4
....Series 2007-4 EUR 100,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.81 per cent Notes due 2022, Upgraded
to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-6
....Series 2007-6 EUR 50,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 4.50 per cent. Fixed / Index Linked
Variable Notes due 2022, Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on
Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-7
....Series 2007-7 EUR 50,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse Variable Interest Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-8
....Series 2007-8 EUR 50,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Variable Interest Rate Notes
due 2022, Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28,
2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-9
....Series 2007-9 EUR 50,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Variable Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-10
....Series 2007-10 EUR 25,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse Variable Interest Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-11
....Series 2007-11 EUR 20,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse Variable Interest Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-12
....Series 2007-12 EUR 30,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse Variable Interest Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-13
....Series 2007-13 EUR 30,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse Variable Interest Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-14
....Series 2007-14 EUR 140,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 5.12 per cent. Fixed/Index Linked
Switchable Notes due 2022, Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously
on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-15
....Series 2007-15 EUR 10,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 5.1425% Fixed Rate Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC Series 2007-16
....Series 2007-16 EUR 23,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse 5.45 per cent. Notes due 2022,
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28, 2016 Upgraded to
A1 (sf)
Issuer: Premium Green PLC, Series 2009-1
....Series 2009-1 EUR 50,000,000
Secured Limited Recourse CMS-Linked Variable Interest Rate Notes
due 2024, Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on Jul 28,
2016 Upgraded to A1 (sf)
These transactions represent a repackaging of collateral bonds issued
by various Caisses Regionales de Credit Agricole Mutuel, subsidiaries
of Credit Agricole S.A. In most transactions, Credit
Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank acts as the swap counterparty,
providing asset and/or interest rate swaps.
RATINGS RATIONALE
Moody's explained that the rating actions taken today are the result of
the rating actions on Credit Agricole S.A., Credit
Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Caisses Regionales de Credit
Agricole Mutuel, on which the long-term deposit and senior
unsecured debt ratings -- where applicable -- were upgraded
to Aa3 from A1 on 19 September 2019. For further information on
the underlying action see the press release titled "Moody's upgrades Credit
Agricole S.A.'s long-term deposit and senior unsecured
debt ratings to Aa3 from A1; outlook changed to stable" on www.moody.com.
The ratings of Premium Green PLC transactions are closely linked to the
rating of Credit Agricole for being the issuer of the collateral bonds
and the swap counterparty.
Methodology Underlying the Rating Action:
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody's Approach
to Rating Repackaged Securities" published in March 2019.
Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com
for a copy of this methodology.
Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings:
Given the repack nature of the structure, Noteholders are mainly
exposed to the credit risk of the underlying asset and the swap counterparty.
An upgrade or downgrade of either the underlying or the swap counterparty
could trigger an upgrade or downgrade on the Notes.
Moody's notes that this transaction is subject to a high level of
macroeconomic uncertainty, which could negatively impact the ratings
of the Notes, as evidenced by: 1) uncertainties of credit
conditions in the general economy; 2) more specifically, any
uncertainty associated with the underlying credits in the transaction
could have a direct impact on the repackaged transaction; and 3)
additional expected loss associated with hedging agreements in this transaction
may also negatively impact the ratings.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity
analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity
to Assumptions of the disclosure form.
The analysis includes an assessment of collateral characteristics and
performance to determine the expected collateral loss or a range of expected
collateral losses or cash flows to the rated instruments. As a
second step, Moody's estimates expected collateral losses or cash
flows using a quantitative tool that takes into account credit enhancement,
loss allocation and other structural features, to derive the expected
loss for each rated instrument.
Moody's did not use any stress scenario simulations in its analysis.
For ratings issued on a program, series, category/class of
debt or security this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures
in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or Note of the
same series, category/class of debt, security or pursuant
to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing
ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices. For ratings
issued on a support provider, this announcement provides certain
regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit rating action on the
support provider and in relation to each particular credit rating action
for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's
credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement
provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional
rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may
be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each
case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior
to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have
affected the rating. For further information please see the ratings
tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit
support from the primary entity(ies) of this credit rating action,
and whose ratings may change as a result of this credit rating action,
the associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity.
Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures,
if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure
to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit
rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating
review.
The below contact information is provided for information purposes only.
Please see the ratings tab of the issuer page at www.moodys.com,
for each of the ratings covered, Moody's disclosures on the
lead rating analyst and the Moody's legal entity that has issued
the ratings.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to
the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued
the rating.
Please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com
for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
Iwona Fernandes
Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service Ltd.
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Raja Iyer
Vice President - Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
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Mizuho Tanaka
Vice President - Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
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