Domestic Programmes
Product structures
Offers under our domestic programmes comprised the following types of bearer bonds:
- plain-vanilla and structured fixed income products
- derivative products (i.e. products referring to some underlying)
We may issue such products in both large and small denominations.
Asset classes
We have issued fixed income products in the following formats:
- covered bonds (Pfandbriefe)
- bonds in standard format
- bonds in the eligible liabilities format
- subordinated bonds in the format for Tier 2 capital instruments
As regards our fixed income products, apart from covered bonds and subordinated Tier 2 bonds we have distinguished between bonds in “standard format” and bonds in the “eligible liabilities format”.
Each of those formats constitutes unsecured and unsubordinated bearer bonds. However, bonds in the eligible liabilities format are intended to count towards our minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities. To that end, the terms and conditions of bonds in the eligible liabilities format reflect the eligibility criteria of subsection 2 of Article 72b of the CRR (Regulation (EU) No 575/2013). This is not the case for bonds in standard format.
We have issued either format as preferred senior bonds or as non-preferred senior bonds.
Derivative products referring to an underlying have been issued as preferred senior bonds, only. The terms and conditions of our derivative products do not reflected the eligibility criteria of subsection 2 of Article 72b of the CRR.
Approval and notification
The base prospectuses relating to our domestic programmes have been approved by the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht in Germany and notified to Austria and Luxembourg.
Offers
The Final Terms for each product have determined whether the product was publicly offered in Germany, Austria, or Luxembourg.
If we have offered a product publicly, the final Terms also determined the offer period. Where such offer period exceeded the period of the validity of the underlying base prospectus, the offer has been continued on the basis of one ore more successor base prospectuses, provided that the relevant successor base prospectus provided for the continuation of the public offer.
Financial intermediaries were allowed to use the underlying base prospectus for their own public offers, subject to and in accordance with the Final Terms of the relevant product.
Listings
For fixed income products, the Final Terms have determined whether and on which stock exchange, if any, the relevant issue of bonds was intended to be listed.
Derivative products were intended to be traded on an unregulated marked (Freiverkehr), if so provided for in the Final Terms.
Prospectuses
Several base prospectuses have formed the basis for our issues under our domestic programmes. Fixed income products were issued under our “Basisprospekt für Pfandbriefe und Standardschuldverschreibungen” (Base Prospectus for Covered Bonds and Standard Notes). The base prospectuses for our derivative products bore other titles varying from time to time, depending on the types of products for which the base prospectus has been drawn up and subject to relevant legal provisions.
The base prospectuses relating to our domestic programmes were updated regularly. You will find those base prospectuses on our prospectus sites, sorted by vintages. To access the prospectus sites, please click “Investor Relations” and “Refinanzierung und Emissionen” on our German webpages.
Final Terms
To view the Final Terms (Endgültige Bedingungen) of any issue under one of our domestic programmes, please click here .