NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

ISDA Determinations Committee:Irish Life & Permanent plc Second Restructuring Credit Event

LONDON, Friday, August 26, 2011 – The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced that its EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee resolved that a Restructuring Credit Event occurred in respect of Irish Life & Permanent plc.

The Committee determined that one or more auctions may be held in respect of outstanding CDS transactions of varying maturity ‘buckets’.

This is a subsequent and separate credit event to that which the EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee resolved on July 5, 2011, and which was settled following auctions held on July 29, 2011.

ISDA will publish further information regarding the potential auctions on its website, www.isda.org/credit, in due course.

For More Information, Please Contact: 
Lauren Dobbs, ISDA New York, +1 212 901 6019, ldobbs@isda.org
Rose Millburn, ISDA London, +44 203 088 3526, rmillburn@isda.org

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