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MILAN: Intesa Sanpaolo will decide based on market conditions whether to repay a perpetual bond with a call option coming due early next year, the chief executive said, adding the potential decision to call did not pose a problem to Italy’s biggest bank.

“We’ll see what the conditions are,” CEO Carlo Messina said on the sideline of an event in Milan when asked if Intesa planned to exercise the call option coming due next on one of its Additional Tier 1 bonds.

“Certainly for us this is not a problem of any kind,” he added.

Intesa has a 750 million euro 6.25% perpetual bond with a call option falling due on May 16, 2024.

AT1 bonds have been rattled by turmoil in the banking sector, which has prompted investors to doubt whether lenders will stick to the standard market practice of calling these perpetual bonds at the earliest opportunity.

Unless a bank has very ample capital and liquidity buffers, regulators normally expect lenders to replace such capital instruments with new issues if they repay them, but that would be difficult and excessively costly in current markets.

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