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AI Summary of Article 133 Equity exposures

The document outlines criteria for classifying equity exposures, emphasising irredeemable investments, Tier 1 items, and obligations with specific deferral or equity settlement conditions. It stipulates exceptions for assets resembling debt, securitisation exposures, and sets various risk weights for different categories of equity investments, including those in unlisted companies and legislative programme investments.

Furthermore, it establishes that equity exposures to central banks receive a 0% risk weight, and addresses the treatment of equity holdings as loans arising from debt-equity swaps to ensure appropriate risk weight assignments.

Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2025 - onwards
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Article 133 Equity exposures

1. All of the following shall be classified as equity exposures:

(a) any exposure that meets all of the following conditions:

(i) it is irredeemable in the sense that the return of invested funds can be achieved only by the sale of the investment or sale of the rights to the investment or by the liquidation of the issuer;

(ii) it does not embody an obligation on the part of the issuer;

(iii) it conveys a residual claim on the assets or income of the issuer;

(b) instruments that would qualify as Tier 1 items if issued by an institution;

(c) instruments that embody an obligation on the part of the issuer and meet any of the following conditions:

(i) the issuer is able to defer the settlement of the obligation indefinitely;