Hypo Alpe Adria Bank guarantee, offered a debt hair-cut to buy the senior bonds for 75% face value and 30% face value for subordinated bonds. On 4 August 2016, a private equity fund advised by Bain Capital purchased Heta Asset Resolution Italia S.r.l. (former Hypo Alpe-Adria Leasing S.r.l.) from Heta. During the year, Financial Market Authority also made a debt hair cut using the power as a resolution authority of EU "Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive", making the bad bank had a positive equity for the first time. Hypo Alpe Adria Bank Heta Asset Resolution A.G. is a "bad bank" that was the residual
Impaired asset Impaired asset According to U.S. accounting rules (US GAAP), the value of an asset is impaired when the sum of estimated future cash flow from that asset is less than the book value of the asset. At this point an impairment loss should be recognized, which is done by taking the difference between the fair market value and the book value and recording this amount as the loss. This basically records the asset as if it were being acquired brand new at its fair market value, recording this as its new book value. This is a common occurrence for goodwill