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Balance Sheet at 31 December 2010 of BBVA

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Transl<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> financial st<strong>at</strong>ements originally issued in Spanish and prepared in accordance with generally accounting principles Spain<br />

(See Note 1 and 54). In the event <strong>of</strong> a discrepancy, the Spanish-language version prevails.<br />

The comprehensive management <strong>of</strong> liquidity is carried out by the Assets and Liabilities Committee (ALCO) in<br />

each Management Unit. The Financial Management unit, as part <strong>of</strong> the Financial Division, analyzes the<br />

implic<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>of</strong> the Bank’s various projects in terms <strong>of</strong> finance and liquidity and its comp<strong>at</strong>ibility with the target<br />

financing structure and the situ<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> the financial markets. The Financial Management unit executes<br />

proposals agreed by the ALCO in accordance with the agreed budgets and manages liquidity risk using a<br />

broad scheme <strong>of</strong> limits, sub-limits and alerts approved by the Permanent Deleg<strong>at</strong>e Committee. The Risk<br />

Area uses these limits to carry out its medi<strong>at</strong>ion and control work independently and provides the manager<br />

with the support tools and metrics needed for decision-making. Each <strong>of</strong> the local risk areas, which are<br />

independent from the local manager, complies with the corpor<strong>at</strong>ive principles <strong>of</strong> liquidity risk control th<strong>at</strong> are<br />

established by the Global Market Risk (GRM) unit, which is the global structural risks unit for the whole<br />

Group.<br />

At the level <strong>of</strong> each entity, the managing areas request and propose a scheme <strong>of</strong> quantit<strong>at</strong>ive and qualit<strong>at</strong>ive<br />

limits and alerts th<strong>at</strong> affect liquidity risk in the short and medium term. Once agreed with GRM, controls and<br />

limits are proposed to the Board <strong>of</strong> Directors through its deleg<strong>at</strong>e bodies, for approval <strong>at</strong> least once a year.<br />

The proposals submitted by GRM are adapted to the situ<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> the market according to the risk tolerance<br />

level aimed for by the Group.<br />

The implement<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> a new Liquidity and Finance Manual, which was approved in the last quarter <strong>of</strong> the<br />

year, has meant the extension <strong>of</strong> schemes limiting the internal financing <strong>of</strong> business units, the financial<br />

structure and financing concentr<strong>at</strong>ion, as well as establishing alerts in qualit<strong>at</strong>ive liquidity indic<strong>at</strong>ors.<br />

GRM carries out regular measurements <strong>of</strong> risk incurred and the monitoring <strong>of</strong> consumption <strong>of</strong> limits. It<br />

develops tools and adapts valu<strong>at</strong>ion models, carries out regular stress tests and reports to ALCO and the<br />

Group’s Management Committee on a monthly basis about liquidity levels. It also reports more <strong>of</strong>ten to the<br />

management areas themselves and to the GRM Management Committee. The frequency <strong>of</strong> communic<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

and the amount <strong>of</strong> inform<strong>at</strong>ion under the current Contingency Plan is decided by the Liquidity Committee on<br />

the proposal <strong>of</strong> the Technical Liquidity Group (TLG). The TLG carries out the initial analysis <strong>of</strong> the Bank's<br />

short or long-term liquidity situ<strong>at</strong>ion. The TLG is made up <strong>of</strong> specialized staff from the Short-Term Cash<br />

Desk, Financial Management and the Global Market Risk Unit (UCRAM-Structural Risk). If the alert levels<br />

suggest a deterior<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> the rel<strong>at</strong>ive situ<strong>at</strong>ion, the TLG reports the m<strong>at</strong>ter to the Liquidity Committee, which<br />

is composed <strong>of</strong> the managers <strong>of</strong> the rel<strong>at</strong>ed areas. If required, the Liquidity Committee is responsible for<br />

calling the Financing Committee, which is made up <strong>of</strong> the President and COO, the Director <strong>of</strong> the Financial<br />

Area, the Director <strong>of</strong> the Risk Area, the Director <strong>of</strong> Global Business and the Director <strong>of</strong> Business <strong>of</strong> the<br />

country in question.<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the most significant aspects regarding monitoring and management <strong>of</strong> liquidity risk in <strong>2010</strong> has been<br />

the management and development <strong>of</strong> the sovereign risk crisis. In this sense, the role <strong>of</strong> the central banks<br />

has been decisive in calming markets during the Eurozone debt crisis and the ECB has been proactive in<br />

guaranteeing the liquidity conditions <strong>of</strong> the interbank markets. The <strong>BBVA</strong> Group has not needed to use the<br />

extraordinary measures established by the Spanish and European authorities to mitig<strong>at</strong>e tension in bank<br />

financing.<br />

On the regul<strong>at</strong>ory side, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Bank for Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Settlements)<br />

has proposed a new liquidity regul<strong>at</strong>ory scheme based on two r<strong>at</strong>ios: the Liquidity Coverage R<strong>at</strong>io (LCR), to<br />

enter into force in 2015; and the Net Stable Funding R<strong>at</strong>io (NSFR), which will be implemented in 2018. The<br />

Group particip<strong>at</strong>ed in the corresponding impact study (QIS) and has included the new regul<strong>at</strong>ory challenges<br />

in its new general framework for action in the field <strong>of</strong> Liquidity and Finance.<br />

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