Société Générale / Risk report 2021 - Pillar 3 2020

8 SECURITISATION SOCIETE GENERALE’S SECURITISATION ACTIVITIES PILLAR 3 - 2021 | SOCIETE GENERALE GROUP | 160 OPERATIONAL RISK the limits of the appetite for operational risk, identified and assessed by the Risk Control Self-Assessment exercise and any incidents are collected and analysed according to Group standards. The The monitoring of operational risk on securitisation activities is taken management of operational risk is described in Chapter 10 of this into account in the Group's operational risk management systems. document. Thus, the operational risks on these activities are notably regulated by SOCIETE GENERALE’S 8.5 SECURITISATION ACTIVITIES Securitisation activities allow the Group to raise liquidity or manage risk exposures, for proprietary purposes or on behalf of customers. Within the framework of these activities, the Group can act as originator, sponsor/arranger or investor: as an originator, the Group directly or indirectly participates in the p initial agreement on assets which subsequently serve as underlying in securitisation transactions, primarily for refinancing purposes; as a sponsor, the Group establishes and manages a securitisation p programme used to refinance customers’ assets, mainly via the Antalis and Barton conduits and via certain other special purpose vehicles; as an investor, the Group invests directly in certain securitisation p positions, is a liquidity provider or a counterparty of derivative exposures. This information must be considered within the context of the specific structure of each transaction and vehicle, which cannot be described in this report. Taken separately, the level of payments past due or in default does not provide sufficient information on the types of exposures securitised by the Group, mainly because the default criteria may vary from one transaction to another. Furthermore, these data reflect the situation of the underlying assets. In securitisation transactions, past due exposures are generally managed via structural mechanisms that protect the most senior positions. Impaired exposures belong mainly to CDOs of US subprime residential mortgages, dating back to 2014. As part of its securitisation activities, the Group does not provide any implicit support in accordance with Article 248, paragraph 1, of the CRR. Since the protection purchased is financed, there is no counterparty credit risk on the vendor of the insurance. The Group does not intend to purchase unfunded protection at this stage. SOCIETE GENERALE AS ORIGINATOR As part of its refinancing activities, the Group undertakes securitisations of some of its portfolios of receivables originated with individuals or corporate customers. The securities created in these transactions can be either sold to external investors, thus providing funding to the Group, or retained by the Group to be used as collateral in repurchase transactions, notably with the European Central Bank. In 2020, two new securitsation transactions were carried out: EUR 1.0 billion securitisation of auto loans, publicly placed to p provide external funding and reduce RWA consumption; EUR 0.4 billion securitisation of auto lease receivables, publicly p placed for EUR 0.35 billion of funding. Given that there is no significant risk transfer arising from the Group’s securitisation transactions for its refinancing activities, these transactions have no impact on the Group’s regulatory capital and are therefore not included in the tables in this section. The vehicles holding the transferred receivables are consolidated by the Group and the Group remains exposed to the majority of the risks and rewards related to the receivables. Furthermore, the receivables cannot be used as collateral or sold outright as part of another transaction. The total outstanding of the receivables securitised without significant risk transfer amounted to EUR 12.4 billion as at 31 December 2020, including EUR 5.4 billion of French home loans, EUR 1.8 billion of German auto loans, EUR 3.3 billion of French consumer loans and EUR 1.9 billion of auto lease receivables and related residual values. Besides, the Group also detains several synthetic securitisation programmes in which the risk transfer is made by using credit derivatives or financial guarantees and where the portfolio is kept in the balance sheet of the Group. The securitised stock of these transactions stood at EUR 16.5 billion as at 31 December 2020, mainly composed of loans to corporates. Societe Generale did not securitise revolving exposures subject to early amortisation treatment in which the level of credit risk to which the originator is exposed may increase following the execution of the early amortisation provision.