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About Danske Kiinnitysluottopankki Oyj

Danske Kiinnitysluottopankki Oyj is a Finnish mortgage credit bank within the Danske Bank Group that issues covered bonds to fund residential mortgage lending in Finland. The company operates under Finnish covered bond legislation and is supervised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority, with a segregated cover pool consisting primarily of Finnish home loans originated and serviced by Danske Bank’s Finnish operations, complemented by permitted substitution assets. Its covered bonds are obligations of the mortgage bank with dual recourse to both the issuer and the cover assets, and the structure is subject to ongoing regulatory asset coverage and stress requirements as well as monitoring by an independent cover pool inspector. The business model is narrowly focused: it does not take deposits or provide day-to-day retail banking, but acquires eligible mortgage assets from the group and refinances them in the bond market, typically using standardized documentation under an issuance program. Interest rate and currency mismatches between assets and liabilities are managed in line with program documentation, commonly through derivatives, and the bank maintains overcollateralization in the cover pool above legal minima as disclosed in investor reporting. Public information is provided through offering documents, periodic cover pool reports detailing collateral composition, loan-to-value distribution, and maturity profiles, and statutory financial statements. Key structural dependencies include reliance on Danske Bank for loan origination, servicing, and certain risk management functions, and concentration in Finnish mortgage assets, which ties performance to domestic housing market conditions and the credit and operational framework of the parent group.