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''Loan documentation.''
Primary Loss Absorbing Capital.


A covenant which has to be met initially and on certain other trigger events, for example raising new borrowings, acquisitions or dividend payments, where the event is permissible if the covenant test is met after the event has been taken into account.  
Used, especially in the UK, to refer to equity and bail-in-able long term debt of banks that can be written down in case of financial distress. It includes both equity and bail-in-able long-term debt.
 
 
The great majority of bank capital in future must be PLAC, in contrast with Secondary Loss Absorbing Capital (SLAC).




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Covenant]]
 
* [[Maintenance covenant]]
*[[Capital adequacy]]
*[[Loss absorbing capacity]]
*[[MREL]]
*[[Principal write down]]
*[[TLAC]]
*[[Total Loss Absorbing Capacity]]
 
*[[SLAC]] - Secondary Loss Absorbing Capital
 
*[[GCLAC]] also referred to as GLAC - gone-concern loss absorbing capital
*[[MCT]]
*[[Bailin]]
 
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]

Revision as of 14:27, 13 August 2016

Primary Loss Absorbing Capital.

Used, especially in the UK, to refer to equity and bail-in-able long term debt of banks that can be written down in case of financial distress. It includes both equity and bail-in-able long-term debt.


The great majority of bank capital in future must be PLAC, in contrast with Secondary Loss Absorbing Capital (SLAC).


See also

  • SLAC - Secondary Loss Absorbing Capital
  • GCLAC also referred to as GLAC - gone-concern loss absorbing capital
  • MCT
  • Bailin