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The Belgian authorities also commit that KBC or any of its subsidiaries shall not engage in the origination of CDOs^f1. It is understood that securitisation transactions which are not caught by this definition of CDOs fall outside the scope of this commitment. This is for instance the case for securitisation transactions for purposes of management of regulatory capital or credit risk or to raise liquidity.

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f1: For the purpose of this commitment, a ‘CDO’ is a credit portfolio securitisation transaction, with the following characteristics: (i) it entails a repackaging of portfolios of assets, and such assets can be bonds, loans, derivatives or other debt obligations, (ii) the credit risk in respect of such assets is repackaged into multiple tranches of securities of different seniority, sold to investors, and (iii) the transaction is mainly arbitrage driven, i.e. the main goal of the transaction is to provide profits from differences between the market price of the underlying assets and the price at which the securitised risk can be sold in structured form.