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Totalkredit and competition authorities reach agreement about Totalkredit partnership - Nykredit Realkredit A/S
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25 September 2024
Totalkredit and competition authorities reach agreement about Totalkredit partnership
Totalkredit and Nykredit have entered into an agreement with the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority. In 2003 the Danish competition authorities approved the Totalkredit partnership. The agreement concerns the exit terms of the agreement behind the Totalkredit partnership.
Since October 2020, Totalkredit has been in continuous dialogue with the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority. Over the past almost four years, the authorities have carried out extensive market research and submitted two draft agreements to competitors and Totalkredit partner banks for consultation.
Totalkredit and the authorities have had constructive talks. Throughout the process, it has been essential for Totalkredit to make sure that – together with the Totalkredit partner banks – we can continue to offer the most attractive mortgage loans all over Denmark. It has also been crucial for Totalkredit to preserve a key characteristic of the Danish mortgage system: That all homeowners, in all parts of Denmark, pay the same price for their mortgage loans.
Based on the market research conducted and the continuous dialogue between the parties, Totalkredit and the Danish competition authorities have reached an agreement. The agreement includes the following amendments to the Totalkredit partnership agreement:
Going forward, in case the partner banks leave the Totalkredit partnership and enter into new partnerships, they can keep 100% of future commission payments for loans distributed by them against continuing to provide security for the loans. At the same time, the partner banks will be able to distribute mortgage loans to homeowners from non-vertically integrated mortgage loan providers, including new or existing small mortgage lenders. Also, the partner banks will remain free to partner up with providers other than Totalkredit on the funding of secured homeowner bank loans.
Michael Rasmussen, Chair of the Board of Directors of Totalkredit and Group Chief Executive of Nykredit, says:
With the agreement, the Danish competition authorities have provided clarity about the framework of the Totalkredit partnership, and it is therefore natural that we will now, together with the Totalkredit partner banks, start looking at ways to modernise our partnership within the new framework.
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