FDIC Loan Guarantees Under TLGP Decline Again For August 2009

FDIC Debt Guarantees Decline 4% In August

The FDIC Temporary Loan Guarantee Program (TLGP) was instituted late last year.  The program’s stated purpose and goals, according to the FDIC, is as follows:

The FDIC has created this program to strengthen confidence and encourage liquidity in the banking system by guaranteeing newly issued senior unsecured debt of banks, thrifts, and certain holding companies, and by providing full coverage of non-interest bearing deposit transaction accounts, regardless of dollar amount.

The recently released FDIC 8/31/2009 report on the TLGP shows total guaranteed debt outstanding of $307  billion.  This represents a decrease from July 31 of 4.1% or $13 billion.  The number of banks using TLGP also declined to 92 from 94 over the past month.

Monthly Reports on Debt Issuance Under the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program

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Debt Issuance under Guarantee Program
(dollar figures in millions) August 31. 2009	Number	Debt Outstanding	Cap1 for Group	Debt Outstanding Share of Cap
Insured Depository Institutions with Assets <= $10 Billion	40	1,617	2,997	53.9%
Insured Depository Institutions with Assets > $10 Billion	20	57,223	314,758	18.2%
Bank and Thrift Holding Companies, Non-Insured Affiliates	32	248,149	471,194	52.7%
All Issuers	92	306,989	788,948	38.9%
1 The amount of FDIC-guaranteed debt that can be issued by each eligible entity, or its cap, is based on the amount of senior unsecured debt outstanding as of September 30, 2008. The cap for a depository institution with no senior unsecured debt outstanding at September 30, 2008, is set at 2 percent of total liabilities. See http://www2.fdic.gov/qbp/2008dec/tlgp2c.html for more information.

A large portion of the guaranteed debt had terms at issuance of over one year, so the process of fully winding down the FDIC TLGP program will take over 3 years.  At August 31, 2009, 20% of the TLGP debt guaranteed had a term of 1 – 2 years, 27% had a term of 2 – 3 years and almost 45% had a term of over 3 years.

The FDIC recently announced that it will let the TLGP program expire on its originally planned termination date of October 31, 2009.

No Losses On TLGP To Date

The FDIC has incurred no losses to date on the debt guarantee program.  The intention of the program was to allow banks to roll over or issue new debt at a time when capital markets were all but non functional.  The FDIC program was not meant to extend debt guarantees to financial firms whose future viability as a going concern was in question, as can be seen by the FDIC refusal to extend debt guarantees to CIT.

Based on the reduced amount of TLGP activity, the FDIC debt guarantee fees assessed in August amounted to only $208 million.   The FDIC to date has made $9.35 billion in fees on the TLGP program and to date has incurred no losses.

Monthly Reports on Debt Issuance Under the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program

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Fees Assessed Under TLGP Debt Program
(dollar figures in millions) August 31, 2009	Debt Guarantee Fees	Surcharges	Total Fee Amount
Fourth Quarter 2008	3,437		3,437
Month of January 2009	1,024		1,024
Month of February 2009	1,087		1,087
Month of March 2009	1,323		1,323
Month of April 2009	574	137	712
Month of May 2009	396	92	488
Month of June 2009	442	155	597
Month of July 2009	278	109	387
Month of August 2009	208	88	296
Total	8,769	581	9,350