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OP Financial Group's capital adequacy clearly exceeds the new minimum requirement set by the ECB

OP Corporate Bank plc
OP Cooperative
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12 December 2019 at 5.00 p.m. EET

OP Financial Group's capital adequacy clearly exceeds the new minimum requirement set by the ECB

The European Central Bank (ECB) has updated the capital buffer requirement on OP Financial Group as part of the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP). The capital buffer requirement (P2R) will increase from 2% to 2.25% as of 1 January 2020. When taking account of this capital buffer requirement, the new minimum for OP's CET1 ratio is 11.3% and for its capital adequacy ratio 14.8%.

OP Financial Group's capital adequacy clearly exceeds the new minimum set. At the end of September 2019, OP Financial Group's CET1 ratio stood at 19.6% and the capital adequacy ratio at 21.2%. The new minimum set by the ECB increases the capital requirement based on the Act on the Supervision of Financial and Insurance Conglomerates (FiCo), whereby the FiCo solvency falls by 1 percentage point following the new capital buffer requirement. At the end of September 2019, the Fico solvency was 137% (minimum 100).

OP Financial Group is supervised by the European Central Bank (ECB). The SREP is part of normal banking supervision activities carried out by the ECB, aiming to ensure that banks have sufficient risk management methods as well as sufficient capital and liquidity to manage risks and cover risks.

OP Corporate Bank plc

OP Cooperative

Tuuli Kousa

Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer

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OP Corporate Communications, tel. +358 50 523 9904, viestinta@op.fi

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