Claims on Non-central Government Public Sectors Entities (PSEs)
CA-4.2.4
Claims on the Bahraini PSEs listed in Appendix CA-8 will be treated as claims on the government of Bahrain.
Apr 08CA-4.2.5
Where other supervisors also treat claims on named PSEs as claims on their sovereigns, claims to those PSEs are treated as claims on the respective sovereigns as outlined in paragraphs CA-4.2.1 and CA-4.2.2 above. These PSE's must be shown on a list maintained by the concerned central bank or financial regulator. Where PSE's are not on such a list, they must be subject to the treatment outlined in paragraph CA-4.2.6 below.
Apr 08CA-4.2.6
Claims on all other (foreign) PSEs (i.e. not having sovereign treatment) denominated and funded in the home currency of the sovereign must be risk weighted as allowed by their home country supervisors, provided the sovereign carries rating BBB- or above. Claims on PSEs with no explicit home country weighting or to PSEs in countries of BB+ sovereign rating and below are subject to ECAI ratings as per the following table:
Credit Assessment AAA to AA- A+ to A- BBB+ to BBB- BB+ to B- Below B- Unrated Risk Weight 20% 50% 100% 100% 150% 100% Apr 08CA-4.2.7
Claims on commercial companies owned by governments must be risk weighted as normal commercial entities unless they are covered by a government guarantee that satisfies the conditions in CA-4.7 below in which case they may take the risk weight of the concerned government.
Apr 08
