Bank Of Ireland Regulatory News (BIRG)

Bank of Ireland Group plc (together with its subsidiaries the "Group" or "BOI")

Credit Risk Transfer Transaction

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland has executed a credit risk transfer transaction which will improve the Group's regulatory and fully loaded CET1 capital ratios by c.30bps.

The transaction references a portfolio of c.€1.4 billion of Irish mortgages and involves the execution of credit protection agreements which reduce the Group's credit risk exposure through a risk sharing structure, whereby the investors assume the credit risk for c.€265 million of potential credit losses on the reference portfolio of Irish mortgages for an initial annual coupon of c.€12m. The coupon is scheduled to reduce over the life of the transaction pro-rata with amortisation in the reference portfolio.

This transaction forms part of the range of balance sheet optimisation initiatives the Group previously indicated were being progressed during H2 2021; and results in a pro-forma reduction in the average risk weight of the Group's Irish mortgage portfolio as at June 2021 from c.26% to c.22%.

There is no customer impact from the transaction. No assets will be derecognised from the Group balance sheet and the reference portfolio of loan assets and related customer relationships will continue to be managed by the Group.

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For further information please contact:

Bank of Ireland

Myles O'Grady, Group Chief Financial Officer +353 (0)1 2508900 ext. 43291

Darach O'Leary, Head of Group Investor Relations +353 (0)1 2508900 ext. 44711

Mark Leech, Head of Media Relations +353 (0)87 9053679

Forward Looking Statement

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