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(10) In order to reduce to a minimum the costs of compliance with the subordination requirement and any negative impact on funding costs, this Directive should allow Member States to keep, where applicable, the existing class of ordinary unsecured senior debt, which is less costly for institutions to issue than any other subordinated liabilities. In order to enhance the resolvability of institutions, this Directive should, nevertheless, require Member States to create a new class of non-preferred senior debt that should rank in insolvency above own funds instruments and subordinated liabilities that do not qualify as own funds instruments, but below other senior liabilities. Institutions should remain free to issue debt in both the senior and the non-preferred senior classes. Of those two classes, and without prejudice to other options and exemptions provided for in the TLAC standard to comply with the subordination requirement, only the non-preferred senior class should be eligible to meet the subordination requirement. That is intended to enable institutions to use the less costly ordinary senior debt for their funding or any other operational reasons and to issue debt in the new non-preferred senior class to obtain funding while complying with the subordination requirement. Member States should be allowed to create several classes for other ordinary unsecured liabilities provided that they ensure, without prejudice to other options and exemptions provided for in the TLAC standard, that only the non-preferred senior class of debt instruments is eligible to meet the subordination requirement.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-19 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.