SECURITISATIONS AND COVERED BONDS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Disclosure Of Securitisations Programmes And Transactions [Abstract]

SECURITISATIONS AND COVERED BONDS

NOTE 29: SECURITISATIONS AND COVERED BONDS

Securitisation programmes

Loans and advances to customers include loans securitised under the Group’s securitisation programmes, the majority of which have been sold by subsidiary companies to bankruptcy remote structured entities. As the structured entities are funded by the issue of debt on terms whereby the majority of the risks and rewards of the portfolio are retained by the subsidiary, the structured entities are consolidated fully and all of these loans are retained on the Group’s balance sheet, with the related notes in issue included within debt securities in issue.

Covered bond programmes

Certain loans and advances to customers have been assigned to bankruptcy remote limited liability partnerships to provide security for issues of covered bonds by the Group. The Group retains all of the risks and rewards associated with these loans and the partnerships are consolidated fully with the loans retained on the Group’s balance sheet and the related covered bonds in issue included within debt securities in issue.

The Group’s principal securitisation and covered bond programmes, together with the balances of the advances subject to these arrangements and the carrying value of the notes in issue at 31 December, are listed below. The notes in issue are reported in note 28.

	2020		2019
	Loans and advances securitised	Notes in issue	Loans and advances securitised	Notes in issue
	£m	£m	£m	£m
Securitisation programmes
UK residential mortgages	23,984	21,640	25,815	23,505
Commercial loans	2,884	4,004	5,116	6,037
Credit card receivables	5,890	4,340	8,164	5,767
Motor vehicle finance	1,826	1,915	3,450	3,462
	34,584	31,899	42,545	38,771
Less held by the Group		(27,448)		(31,436)
Total securitisation programmes (notes 27 and 28)1		4,451		7,335
Covered bond programmes
Residential mortgage-backed	33,980	23,480	37,579	29,321
Social housing loan-backed	980	600	1,552	600
	34,960	24,080	39,131	29,921
Less held by the Group		(100)		(100)
Total covered bond programmes (note 28)		23,980		29,821
Total securitisation and covered bond programmes		28,431		37,156

1Includes £45 million (2019: £47 million) of securitisation notes held at fair value through profit or loss.

Cash deposits of £3,930 million (2019: £4,703 million) which support the debt securities issued by the structured entities, the term advances related to covered bonds and other legal obligations are held by the Group. Additionally, the Group has certain contractual arrangements to provide liquidity facilities to some of these structured entities. At 31 December 2020 these obligations had not been triggered; the maximum exposure under these facilities was £52 million (2019: £56 million).

The Group has a number of covered bond programmes, for which limited liability partnerships have been established to ring-fence asset pools and guarantee the covered bonds issued by the Group. At the reporting date the Group had over-collateralised these programmes as set out in the table above to meet the terms of the programmes, to secure the rating of the covered bonds and to provide operational flexibility. From time-to-time, the obligations of the Group to provide collateral may increase due to the formal requirements of the programmes. The Group may also voluntarily contribute collateral to support the ratings of the covered bonds.

The Group recognises the full liabilities associated with its securitisation and covered bond programmes within debt securities in issue, although the obligations of the Group in respect of its securitisation issuances are limited to the cash flows generated from the underlying assets. The Group could be required to provide additional support to a number of the securitisation programmes to support the credit ratings of the debt securities issued, in the form of increased cash reserves and the holding of subordinated notes. Further, certain programmes contain contractual obligations that require the Group to repurchase assets should they become credit impaired or as otherwise required by the transaction documents.

The Group has not provided financial or other support by voluntarily offering to repurchase assets from any of its public securitisation programmes during 2020 (2019: none).