Banking Resolution
Senior Non-Preferred

Senior non-preferred debt

Senior non-preferred debt is a class of senior unsecured bonds created specifically so that banks could build MREL without subordinating their operating liabilities: it ranks below ordinary senior debt in insolvency but above Tier 2, by statute rather than by contract.

Senior non-preferred sits between subordinated capital and ordinary senior debt. It exists because the 2017 creditor hierarchy directive gave EU banks a statutory layer that can be bailed in without touching deposits, derivatives or trade liabilities. Full definition in the glossary.

Live instruments
343
Source: ESMA FIRDSUpdated 2026-07-24
Issuers
27
Source: ESMA FIRDSUpdated 2026-07-24
Notional (EUR lines)
EUR 94,798m
Source: ESMA FIRDSUpdated 2026-07-24
EUR lines with notional
161of 343
Source: ESMA FIRDSUpdated 2026-07-24

Notional is summed over EUR-denominated lines that report an amount. FIRDS carries no exchange rates, so amounts in other currencies are counted but never converted.

By issuer country

CountryInstrumentsNotional (EUR)
ESSpain87EUR 37,083m
SESweden65EUR 18,802m
DEGermany43EUR 246m
FRFrance42EUR 4,564m
DKDenmark39EUR 4,661m
FIFinland20EUR 6,360m
NONorway17EUR 6,325m
NLNetherlands14EUR 9,250m
ITItaly12EUR 5,507m
ATAustria3EUR 1,500m
BEBelgium1EUR 500m

Largest issuers

By number of live instruments. Issuance count is not issuance volume — a bank running a large medium-term note programme shows many small lines.

Most recently issued

Source: ESMA FIRDSUpdated 2026-07-24

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