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
Ireland as a tax haven The Tax Justice Network imply the U.S. may be the reason. While by 2017, the OECD only considered Trinidad and Tobago to be a tax haven, in 2017 the EU produced a list of 17 tax havens, plus another 47 jurisdictions on the "grey list", however, as with the OECD lists above, the EU list did not include any EU-28 jurisdictions. Only one of the EU's 17 blacklisted tax havens, namely Samoa, appeared in the July 2017 Top 20 tax havens list from CORPNET. The EU Commission was criticised for not including Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Malta and Cyprus, and