BNS Capitalization : 2Q08

BNS has released its Second Quarter 2008 Report and Supplementary Package, so it’s time to recalculate how much room they have to issue new preferred shares – assuming they want to!

Step One is to analyze their Tier 1 Capital, reproducing the prior format:

BNS Capital Structure
October, 2007
& April, 2008
  4Q07 2Q08
Total Tier 1 Capital 20,225 21,073
Common Shareholders’ Equity 81.5% 83.9%
Preferred Shares 8.1% 10.5%
Innovative Tier 1 Capital Instruments 13.6% 13.0%
Non-Controlling Interests in Subsidiaries 2.5% 2.8%
Goodwill -5.6% -10.3%

Next, the issuance capacity (from Part 3 of the introductory series):

BNS
Tier 1 Issuance Capacity
October 2007
& April 2008
  4Q07 2Q08
Equity Capital (A) 15,840 16,113
Non-Equity Tier 1 Limit (B=A/3), 4Q07
(B=0.428*A), 2Q08
5,280 6,896
Innovative Tier 1 Capital (C) 2,750 2,750
Preferred Limit (D=B-C) 2,530 4,146
Preferred Actual (E) 1,635 2,210
New Issuance Capacity (F=D-E) 895 1,936
Items A, C & E are taken from the table
“Regulatory Capital”
of the supplementary information;
Note that Item A includes Goodwill, FX losses, “Other Capital Deductions” and non-controlling interest


Item B is as per OSFI Guidelines; the limit was recently increased.
Items D & F are my calculations

and the all important Risk-Weighted Asset Ratios!

BNS
Risk-Weighted Asset Ratios
October 2007
& April 2008
  Note 2007 2Q08
Equity Capital A 15,840 16,113
Risk-Weighted Assets B 218,300 218,900
Equity/RWA C=A/B 7.26% 7.36%
Tier 1 Ratio D 9.3% 9.6%
Capital Ratio E 10.5% 11.7%
Assets to Capital Multiple F 18.22x 17.68x
A is taken from the table “Issuance Capacity”, above
B, D & E are taken from BNS’s Supplementary Report
C is my calculation.
F is from OSFI (4Q07) and BNS’s Supplementary Report (2Q08) of total assets ($452.6-billion) divided by total capital ($25.588-billion)

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