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Financial instruments risks

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Disclosure of nature and extent of risks arising from financial instruments [abstract]

35. Financial instruments risks

Presentation of Risk Management and Risk-Weighted Assets (RWA)

Strategies and processes

The purpose of the organization is based on assuming a prudential level of risks in order to generate yields and keep acceptable levels of capital and funding, and generate benefits on a recurring basis. Therefore, it is vital that the teams assigned to risk management are highly trained professionals.

The General Risks Policy of BBVA Argentina expresses the levels and types of risk the Entity is willing to take to carry out its strategic plan, with no relevant deviations, even under stress conditions. Along this line, the process for risks management is comprehensive and proportional to the economic size and importance of the financial institution.

To achieve its goals, BBVA Argentina uses a management model with two guiding principles for the decision-making process:

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Prudential analysis: related to the management of the various risks acknowledged by the Entity.

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Anticipation: it refers to the capacity to make decisions foreseeing relevant changes in the environment, the competition and customers that may have an impact in the mid-term.

This process is adequate, sufficiently proven, duly documented and periodically reviewed based on the changes to the Entity’s risk profile and the market.

In this regard, the Board of Directors and the Senior Management are highly committed to the identification, evaluation, follow-up, control and mitigation of significant risks. These bodies periodically review credit, financial and operational risks, which may potentially affect the success of BBVA Argentina’s activities, and place special emphasis on strategic, reputation and concentration risks.

Structure and organization

The Group has a formal organizational structure, with a set of roles and responsibilities, organized in a pyramidal structure that generates control instances from lower to higher levels, up to the highest decision-making bodies. The following are the areas that conform the structure and a list of their functions:

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Risks Management Unit.

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Committees.

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Reporting Units.

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Cross-Control Areas.

Risks Management Unit:

This is an area that is independent from the Bank’s business units, in charge of implementing the criteria, policies and procedures defined by the organization within the scope of credit (retail and wholesale), operational and market risk management, with a

follow-up

and control of proper application and proposing the actions necessary to the keep quality of risks within the defined goals. One of its main functions is to ensure proper information for the decision-making process at all levels, including relevant risk factors, such as:

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Active management throughout the life of the risk.

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Clear processes and procedures.

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Integrated management of all risks through identification and quantification.

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Generation, implementation and dissemination of advanced decision-making support tools.

Committees

Committees are the governance bodies through which risks are treated.

Reporting Units

The Reporting Units are in charge of control procedures for risk in compliance with Central Bank regulations, determining the risk quota for each segment of economic activity and type of financing, preparing fundamental metrics setting forth the principles and general risk profile in the statement of Appetite for Risk. In addition, it is in charge of generating reports for the Risks Management Unit for decision-making process in accordance with internal credit policies and control organizations’ policies, reviewing processes and proposing alternatives.

Cross-Control Areas

Internal Control and Compliance Department - has the following main functions: to ensure that there is a sufficient internal regulatory framework; a process and measures defined for each type of risk; to control its application and operation; and to ensure that an assessment is made of the existence of a control environment and its adequate implementation and operation.

Model Validation - Internal Control and Compliance Department - who ensures that BBVA Argentina’s internal statistical risk models are adequate for their use, and must issue a well-founded and updated opinion on their adequate use.

The control and monitoring areas are in charge of giving cohesion to credit risk management and ensuring that the management of the rest of the critical risks for the Bank is carried out in accordance with the established standards.

Finally, Internal Audit, transversal to the business and support units.

Risk Appetite Framework

Risk appetite is a key element which provides the Group with a comprehensive framework to determine the risks and level of risks, expressed in terms of capital, liquidity, profitability, income recurrence, risk costs or other metrics.

Risk appetite is expressed through a statement containing the general principles for the Group’s strategy and quantitative metrics.

Stress Testing

In compliance with the provisions on “guidelines for risk management in Financial Institutions” set forth by the Argentine Central Bank, the Entity has developed a stress test program, within the Entity’s comprehensive risk management.

Stress test means the evaluation of the Entity’s financial position under an adverse but plausible scenario, which requires the simulation of scenarios to estimate the potential impact on the value of portfolios, profitability, solvency and liquidity for the purposes of identifying latent risks or detecting vulnerabilities.

Credit risk

The Bank defines credit risk as the possibility to sustain losses as a result of a debtor’s or counterparty’s noncompliance with the contractual obligations assumed.

Credit risk is present in on and off-balance sheet transactions, as well as settlement risk , that is to say, when a financial transaction cannot be completed or settled as agreed. Credit risk losses arise from a debtor’s or counterparty’s noncompliance with its obligations. Also, it takes into consideration several types of risks, such as country risk, and counterparty credit risk.

BBVA Argentina defines country risk as the risk of sustaining losses generated in investments and loans to individuals, companies, and governments due to the incidence of economic, political, and social events occurring in a foreign country.

Strategy and processes

BBVA Argentina develops its credit risk strategy defining the goals that will guide its granting activities, the policies to be adopted and the necessary practices and procedures to carry out those activities.

Additionally, the Risks Management Department, together with the rest of the Bank’s Management Departments, annually develops a budget process, which includes the main variables of credit risk:

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Expected growth per portfolio and product.

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Evolution of default ratio.

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Evolution of

write-off

portfolios.

This way, the expected standard credit risk values are set for a term of one year. Afterwards, the real values obtained are compared with that budget, to assess the growth of the portfolio and its quality.

Also, maximum limits or exposures per economic activity are formalized, pursuant to the Group’s placement strategy, which are used to follow up credit portfolios. In case of deviations from the set limits, these are analyzed by the Risks

Follow-Up

Committees to take the necessary measures.

Origination

BBVA Argentina has credit risk origination policies in place, to define the criteria to obtain quality assets, establish risk tolerance levels and alignment of the credit activities with the strategy of BBVA Argentina and in accordance with the Group. The policy of accepting risks is therefore organized into three different levels within the Group:

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Analysis of the financial risk of the transaction, based on the debtor’s capacity for repayment or funds generation.

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The constitution of guarantees that are adequate, or at any rate generally accepted, for the risk assumed, in any of the generally accepted forms: monetary, secured, personal or hedge guarantees.

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Assessment of the repayment risk (asset liquidity) of the guarantees received.

Monitoring

The main monitoring procedures carried out by the various Banking areas are:

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Monitoring of the limit granted: Since customer profiles vary over time, the limits of products contracted are periodically reviewed for the purpose of broadening, reducing or suspending the limit assigned, based on the risk situation.

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Maintenance of

pre-approved

limits: Customers’ characteristics, vary over time. Therefore, there is periodical maintenance of the

pre-approved

limits, taking into consideration changes in a customer’s situation (position of asset and liability and relationship). Likewise, there is a periodic

follow-up

of the evolution of the

pre-approved

limit amount for the purpose of controlling and ensuring the risk assigned in accordance with the desired risk levels.

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Monitoring of rating tools: Rating tools are a reflection of the internal inputs and show the characteristics and biases of such inputs. Therefore, they need a long period to reduce or eliminate those biases through the inclusion of new information, correction of existing information and periodic reviews optimizing the results of back-tests.

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Portfolio analysis: The portfolio analysis consists of a monitoring process and study of the complete cycle of portfolio risk for the purpose of analyzing the status of the portfolio, identifying potential paths towards improvements in management and forecasting future behavior.

Additionally, the following functions are carried out:

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Monitoring of specific customers.

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Monitoring of products.

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Monitoring of units (branches, areas).

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Other monitoring actions (samples, control of admission process and risk management, campaigns).

The priority in credit risk monitoring processes is focused mainly on problematic or potentially problematic customers for preventive purposes. The remaining aspects, the monitoring of products, units and other monitoring actions, are supplementary to the specific monitoring of customers.

Recovery

BBVA Argentina also has a Recoveries Area within Risk Management to mitigate the severity of credit portfolios, both regarding the Bank and its subsidiaries, as well as to provide the results directly through collections of

write-off

portfolios and indirectly through collections of active portfolios, which imply a reduction of allowances.

Scope and nature of information and/or risk measurement systems

BBVA Argentina has several tools to be used in credit risk management for effective risk control and to facilitate the entire process. The periodic reports are:

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Progress of Risks.

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Payment Schedules.

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Ratings.

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Dashboard.

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Early Alerts System.

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Quarterly tools

follow-up

sheet.

Exposure to credit risk

The Group’s credit risk exposure of financial assets, loan commitments and financial

guarantees

under IFRS 9 with stage allocation by asset classification as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 is provided below:


Credit risk exposure	December 31, 2023		Stage 1		Stage 2		Stage 3
Cash and cash equivalents		415,678,677		415,678,677		—		—

Financial assets at amortized cost		3,492,654,055		3,154,006,364		303,440,509		35,207,182

Debt securities		96,681,440		—		96,681,440		—

Wholesale		1,221,331,138		1,129,949,339		85,843,115		5,538,684

- Business		528,849,835		504,743,775		19,918,423		4,187,637
- Corporate and Investment Banking		362,392,695		311,601,170		50,791,308		217
- Institutional and international		10,319		3,685		1,537		5,097
- MSMEs		159,206,280		142,728,700		15,131,847		1,345,733
- Others		170,872,009		170,872,009		—		—

Retail		972,219,682		821,635,230		120,915,954		29,668,498

- Advances		1,909,410		1,166,156		377,016		366,238
- Credit cards		674,523,874		582,116,623		78,202,893		14,204,358
- Personal loans		153,475,842		131,013,331		11,302,243		11,160,268
- Pledge loans		47,968,181		46,532,007		653,277		782,897
- Mortgages		90,404,966		58,129,217		29,121,012		3,154,737
- Receivables from financial leases		2,177,565		2,163,236		14,329		—
- Others		1,759,844		514,660		1,245,184		—

Reverse repurchase agreements		1,202,421,795		1,202,421,795		—		—

- BCRA repos		1,202,421,795		1,202,421,795		—		—

Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income		841,884,579		192,781,776		649,102,803		—

Debt securities		841,884,579		192,781,776		649,102,803		—

Total financial assets risk		4,750,217,311		3,762,466,817		952,543,312		35,207,182

Loan commitments and financial guarantees		647,025,344		585,414,818		61,403,032		207,494

Wholesale		241,347,117		217,735,177		23,589,353		22,587

- Business		96,632,508		83,741,932		12,885,097		5,479
- Corporate and Investment Banking		95,868,758		92,737,597		3,131,153		8
- Institutional and international		35,404,046		31,588,932		3,815,114		—
- MSMEs		13,441,805		9,666,716		3,757,989		17,100


Credit risk exposure	December 31, 2023		Stage 1		Stage 2		Stage 3
Retail		405,678,227		367,679,641		37,813,679		184,907

- Advances		13,284,965		12,787,853		494,004		3,108
- Credit cards		390,703,870		353,899,032		36,679,554		125,284
- Mortgages		1,598,766		913,866		628,385		56,515
- Others		90,626		78,890		11,736		—

Total loan commitments and financial guarantees		647,025,344		585,414,818		61,403,032		207,494

Total credit risk exposure		5,397,242,655		4,347,881,635		1,013,946,344		35,414,676


Credit risk exposure	December 31, 2022		Stage 1		Stage 2		Stage 3
Cash and cash equivalents		556,906,904		556,906,904		—		—

Financial assets at amortized cost		2,783,507,847		2,401,123,764		343,206,765		39,177,318

Debt securities		138,659,964		—		138,659,964		—

Wholesale		1,214,785,498		1,155,211,671		53,184,583		6,389,244

- Business		524,857,823		489,222,837		30,582,887		5,052,099
- Corporate and Investment Banking		352,986,681		334,163,826		18,822,815		40
- Institutional and international		188,578		8,729		178,046		1,803
- MSMEs		153,825,763		148,889,626		3,600,835		1,335,302
- Others		182,926,653		182,926,653		—		—

Retail		1,266,372,541		1,082,222,249		151,362,218		32,788,074

- Advances		3,354,887		1,837,008		987,944		529,935
- Credit cards		822,762,185		707,207,058		102,601,449		12,953,678
- Personal loans		220,915,565		194,713,429		13,703,503		12,498,633
- Pledge loans		84,573,077		79,746,567		2,299,056		2,527,454
- Mortgages		131,979,055		95,975,191		31,729,028		4,274,836
- Receivables from financial leases		2,688,360		2,643,692		41,130		3,538
- Others		99,412		99,304		108		—

Reverse repurchase agreements		163,689,844		163,689,844		—		—

- BCRA repos		163,689,844		163,689,844		—		—

Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income		1,922,232,186		1,478,379,540		443,852,646		—

Debt securities		1,922,232,186		1,478,379,540		443,852,646		—

Total financial assets risk		5,262,646,937		4,436,410,208		787,059,411		39,177,318


Credit risk exposure	December 31, 2022		Stage 1		Stage 2		Stage 3
Loan commitments and financial guarantees		664,472,529		606,937,314		57,326,255		208,960

Wholesale		124,191,534		109,972,663		14,184,466		34,405

- Business		46,597,993		38,071,627		8,513,906		12,460
- Corporate and Investment Banking		54,373,985		51,837,248		2,536,737		—
- Institutional and international		11,467,755		9,147,894		2,319,861		—
- MSMEs		11,751,801		10,915,894		813,962		21,945

Retail		540,280,995		496,964,651		43,141,789		174,555

- Advances		30,487,566		29,181,844		1,301,474		4,248
- Credit cards		507,464,932		466,048,328		41,291,086		125,518
- Mortgages		2,108,796		1,528,230		535,777		44,789
- Others		219,701		206,249		13,452		—

Total loan commitments and financial guarantees		664,472,529		606,937,314		57,326,255		208,960

Total credit risk exposure		5,927,119,466		5,043,347,522		844,385,666		39,386,278

Information on the credit quality of assets

The Group’s credit quality analysis of financial assets under IFRS 9 with risk allocation as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 is provided below:


Credit quality analysis	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Cash and cash equivalents
- Low risk (PD < 2.3%)		415,678,677		556,906,904

Total cash and cash equivalents		415,678,677		556,906,904

Wholesale
- Low risk (PD < 4%)		1,254,676,711		1,167,991,905
- Medium risk (PD ≥ 4% to < 24%)		166,178,544		112,799,574
- High risk (PD ≥ 24% to < 100% or Individually Stage 2)		36,261,729		51,761,904
- Non performing (PD = 100% or Individually Stage 3)		5,561,271		6,423,649

Total wholesale		1,462,678,255		1,338,977,032

Retail
- Low risk (PD < 2.3%)		1,075,897,337		1,379,787,080
- Medium risk (PD ≥ 2.3% to < 29%)		266,128,432		375,330,757
- High risk (PD ≥ 29% to < 100% or Individually Stage 2)		6,018,735		18,573,070
- Non performing (PD = 100% or Individually Stage 3)		29,853,405		32,962,629

Total retail		1,377,897,909		1,806,653,536

Reverse repurchase agreement
- BCRA repos (CCC+)		1,202,421,795		163,689,844

Total reverse repurchase agreement		1,202,421,795		163,689,844

Debt securities
- BCRA Liquidity Bills (CCC+)		174,330,520		1,466,786,104
- Government securities (CCC-)		752,062,939		582,512,610
- Corporate bonds (B)		12,085,356		11,593,436
- Corporate bonds (B-)		87,204		—

Total debt securities		938,566,019		2,060,892,150

Total credit risk exposure		5,397,242,655		5,927,119,466

The amounts included in the table above represent the Entity’s maximum exposure to credit risk as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, without taking account of any collateral held or other credit enhancements. In order to mitigate credit risk, the following table shows the net credit risk exposure as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:


	December 31, 2023			December 31, 2022
Maximum exposure to credit risk		5,397,242,655			5,927,119,466
Collateral held or other credit enhancements		(2,164,506,418	)		(1,089,537,232	)

Total net credit risk exposure		3,232,736,237			4,837,582,234

Mitigation of credit risk, collateralized credit risk and other credit enhancements

In most cases, maximum credit risk exposure is reduced by collateral, credit enhancements and other actions which mitigate the Group’s exposure. The Group applies a credit risk hedging and mitigation policy deriving from a banking approach focused on relationship banking. The existence of guarantees could be a necessary but not sufficient instrument for accepting risks, as the assumption of risks by the Group requires prior evaluation of the debtor’s capacity for repayment, or that the debtor can generate sufficient resources to allow the amortization of the risk incurred under the agreed terms.

The procedures for the management and valuation of collateral following the Corporate Policies (retail and wholesale), which establish the basic principles for credit risk management, including the management of collaterals assigned in transactions with customers.

The methods used to value the collateral are in line with the best market practices and imply the use of appraisal of real-estate collateral, the market price in market securities, the trading price of shares in investment funds, etc. All the collaterals received must be correctly assigned and entered in the corresponding register.

The following are the principal types of collateral managed by BBVA Argentina:

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Guarantees: It includes sureties or unsecured instruments.

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Joint and several guarantee: upon default on payment, the creditor may collect the unpaid amount from either the debtor or the surety.

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Joint guarantee: in this case the guarantors and debt-holders are liable in proportion to their interest in the company / transaction and restricted to such amount or percentage.

•

Security interest: it includes guarantees based on tangible assets, which are classified as follows:

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Mortgages: a mortgage does not change the debtor’s unlimited liability, who is fully liable. They are documented pursuant to the Group’s internal regulations for such purposes and are duly registered. Also, there is an independent appraisal, at market value, which enables a prompt sale.

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Pledges: this includes chattel mortgages of motor vehicles or machinery, as well as liens on time deposits and investment funds. To be accepted, they shall be effective upon realization accordingly, be properly documented and approved by the Legal Services area.

Loan commitments

To meet the specific financial needs of customers, the Group’s credit policy also includes, among others, the granting of financial guarantees, letters of credit and lines of credit through checking account overdrafts and credit cards. Although these transactions are not recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position, because they imply a potential liability for the Group, they expose the Group to credit risks in addition to those recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position and are, therefore, an integral part of the Group’s total risk.

Hedging based on netting of on and off-balance sheet transactions

The Entity, within the limits defined by regulations regarding netting, negotiates with its customers the execution of master agreements (for instance, ISDA or CMOF) for the derivatives business, including the netting of off-balance sheet transactions.

The wording of each agreement determines in each case the transaction subject to netting. The reduction in the exposure of counterparty risk arising from the use of mitigation techniques (netting plus use of collateral agreements) implies a decrease in total exposure (current market value plus potential risk).

Main types of guarantors

The Group defines that the collateral shall be direct, explicit, irrevocable and unconditional in order to be accepted as risk mitigation. Furthermore, regarding admissible guarantors, BBVA Argentina accepts financial institutions (local or foreign), public entities, stock exchange companies, resident and

non-resident

companies, including insurance companies.

Credit quality of financial assets that are neither past due nor impaired

The Group has tools (“scoring” and “rating”) that enable it to rank the credit quality of its transactions and customers based on an assessment and its correspondence with the PD scales. To analyze the performance of PD, the Group has a series of tracking tools and historical databases that collect the relevant internally generated information. These tools can be grouped together into scoring and rating models, being the main difference between ratings and scorings is that the latter are used to assess retail products, while ratings use a wholesale banking customer approach.

These different levels and their PD were calculated by using as a reference the rating scales and default rates. These calculations establish the PD levels for the Bank’s Master Rating Scale. Although this scale is common to the entire Group, the calibrations (mapping scores to PD sections/Master Rating Scale levels) are carried out at the country level.

Financial risks

The Financial Risks Management of the Risks Management area applies the criteria, policies and procedures defined by the Board of Directors to manage, with a

follow-up

and control of its proper application, and proposing the necessary actions to maintain the quality of risk within the defined appetite for risk.

The financial risks management model of BBVA Argentina consists of the Market Risks and Structural Risks and Economic Capital Areas, which are coordinated for the control and

follow-up

of risks.

The management of these risks is in line with the basic principles of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, with a comprehensive process to identify, measure, monitor and control risks.

The organization of financial risks is completed with a scheme of committees in which it participates, for the purpose of having an agile management process integrated into the treatment of the various risks.

Among others:

•

Assets and liabilities Committee (ALCO).

•

Risk Management Committee (RMC).

•

Financial Risks Committee (FRC).

BBVA Argentina has many tools and systems to manage and

follow-up

market risk, to achieve effective risk control and treatment.

Market risk

BBVA Argentina considers market risk as the likelihood of losses of value of the trading portfolio as a consequence of adverse changes in market variables affecting the valuation of financial products and instruments.

The main market risk factors the Group is exposed to are as follows:

•

Interest rate risk: From exposure to changes in the various interest rate curves.

•

Foreign exchange risk: From changes in the various foreign exchange rates. All positions in a currency other than the currency of the consolidated statements of financial position create foreign exchange risk.

The main market risk metric is Value at Risk (“VaR”), a parameter to estimate the maximum loss expected for the trading portfolio positions with a 99% confidence level and a time horizon of 1 day.

Current management structure and procedures in force include the

follow-up

of a limits and alerts scheme in terms of VaR, economic capital, stress and stop loss.

The market risk measurement model is periodically validated through Back-Testing to determine the quality and precision of the VaR estimate.

The Market Risk management model contemplates procedures for communication in the event the risks levels defined are exceeded, establishing specific communication and acting circuits based on the exceeded threshold.

The market risk measurement perimeter is the trading portfolio (trading book) managed by the Global Markets unit. This portfolio mainly consists of:

•

Argentine Government Securities.

•

BCRA Liquidity Bills

•

Corporate Bonds.

•

Foreign exchange spot.

•

Derivatives (Exchange rate Futures and Forwards and Interest rate swaps).

The following tables show the trading portfolio total VaR and VaR per risk factors based on daily VaR information:

VaR (in millions of pesos)


	Year ended December 31, 2023		Year ended December 31, 2022
Average		303.54		141.13
Minimum		24.49		48.71
Maximum		1,586.80		263.07
Closing		296.22		112.22

VaR per risk factors – (in millions of pesos)


VaR interest rate	Year ended December 31, 2023		Year ended December 31, 2022
Average		336.97		157.79
Minimum		29.58		49.32
Maximum		2,163.96		298.07
Closing		298.78		121.29


VaR foreign exchange rate	Year ended December 31, 2023		Year ended December 31, 2022
Average		7.24		1.05
Minimum		0.29		-0.47
Maximum		190.63		65.11
Closing		12.28		0.15

Currency risk

The position in foreign currency is shown below:


	Total as of December 31, 2023		As of December 31, 2023 (per currency)									Total as of December 31, 2022
	Total as of December 31, 2023		US Dollar		Euro			Real		Other		Total as of December 31, 2022
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents		1,076,719,793		1,041,165,789		32,597,593			494,680		2,461,731		773,572,820
Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss - Debt securities		225,199,948		225,199,948		—			—		—		10,961,484
Other financial assets		80,696,615		80,681,827		14,788			—		—		59,884,911
Loans and advances		196,957,836		196,589,749		368,087			—		—		119,996,346
Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income - Debt securities		74,070,243		74,070,243		—			—		—		17,022,612
Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income - Equity instruments		432,216		404,468		27,748			—		—		187,625

TOTAL ASSETS		1,654,076,651		1,618,112,024		33,008,216			494,680		2,461,731		981,625,798

LIABILITIES
Deposits		1,281,848,662		1,263,551,944		18,296,718			—		—		890,641,779
Other financial liabilities		79,930,161		73,958,024		5,400,352			—		571,785		68,186,188
Bank loans		3,119,096		2,800,253		318,843			—		—		3,455,761
Other liabilities		61,891,994		38,792,328		23,099,666			—		—		36,704,866

TOTAL LIABILITIES		1,426,789,913		1,379,102,549		47,115,579			—		571,785		998,988,594

NET ASSETS / (LIABILITIES)		227,286,738		239,009,475		(14,107,363	)		494,680		1,889,946		(17,362,796	)

The notional values of forward transactions, foreign currency forwards and interest rate swaps are detailed in Note 5.2.

Interest rate risk

Structural interest risk (SIR) gathers the potential impact of market interest rate variations on the margin of interest and the equity value of BBVA Argentina.

The process to manage this risk has a limits structure to keep the exposure to this risk within levels that are consistent with the appetite for risk and the business strategy defined and approved by the Board of Directors.

Within the core metrics used for measurement,

follow-up

and control, the following stand out:

•

Margin at Risk (MaR): quantifies the maximum loss which may be recorded in the financial margin projected for 12 months under the worst case scenario of rate curves for a certain level of confidence.

•

Economic Capital (EC): quantifies the maximum loss which may be recorded in the economic value of the Group under the worst case scenario of rate curves for a certain level of confidence.

The Group additionally carries out an analysis of sensitivity of the economic value and the financial margin for parallel variations by +/- 100 basis points over interest rates.

The following table shows the sensitivity of the economic value (SEV), to +100 basis points variation presented as a proportion of Core Capital:

SEV +100 bps


	December 31, 2023			December 31, 2022
Closing		1.09	%		0.62	%
Minimum		0.67	%		0.62	%
Maximum		1.09	%		1.42	%
Average		0.79	%		1.00	%

The following table shows the sensitivity of the financial margin (SFM), to

-100

basis points variation presented as a percentage of

12-month

forecast net interest income:

SFM

-100

bps


	December 31, 2023			December 31, 2022
Closing		0.30	%		0.47	%
Minimum		0.11	%		0.43	%
Maximum		0.35	%		1.01	%
Average		0.24	%		0.75	%

Liquidity and financing risk

Liquidity risk is defined as the possibility of the Group not efficiently meeting its payment obligations without incurring significant losses which may affect its daily operations or its financial standing.

The short-term purpose of the liquidity and financing risk management process at BBVA Argentina is to timely and duly address payment commitments agreed, without resorting to additional funding deteriorating the Group’s reputation or significantly affecting its financial position, keeping the exposure to this risk within levels that are consistent with the appetite for risk and the business strategy defined and approved by the Board of Directors. In the medium and long term, to watch for the suitability of the financial structure of the Bank and its evolution, according to the economic situation, the markets and regulatory changes.

Within the core metrics used for measurement,

follow-up

and control of this risk, management considers the following to be most relevant:

LtSCD: (Loan to Stable Customers Deposits), measures the relationship between the net credit investment and the customers’ stable resources, and is set forth as the key metric of appetite for risk. The goal is to preserve a stable financing structure in the medium and long term.

Below are the Bank’s LtSCD ratios as of the dates indicated:


	December 31, 2023			December 31, 2022
LtSCD Closing		59.7	%		58.0	%
Max		80.3	%		62.8	%
Min		58.2	%		54.6	%
Avg		62.7	%		58.6	%

LCR: (Liquidity Coverage Ratio), BBVA Argentina calculates the liquidity coverage coefficient daily by measuring the relation between high quality liquid assets and total net cash outflows during a

30-day

period.

Below are the Bank’s LCR ratios as of the dates indicated:


	December, 2023			December, 2022
LCR Closing		271	%		348	%
Max		433	%		348	%
Min		151	%		223	%
Avg		246	%		278	%

The following chart shows the concentration of deposits as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:


	December 31, 2023					December 31, 2022
Number of customers	Debt balance		% over total portfolio			Debt balance		% over total portfolio
10 largest customers		550,858,950		15.14	%		304,614,921		7.45	%
50 following largest customers		392,517,039		10.79	%		439,358,749		10.74	%
100 following largest customers		186,621,640		5.13	%		166,445,085		4.07	%
Rest of customers		2,509,309,031		68.94	%		3,180,893,681		77.74	%

TOTAL		3,639,306,660		100.00	%		4,091,312,436		100.00	%

The following chart shows the breakdown by contractual maturity of loans and advances, other financing and financial liabilities considering the total amounts to their due date, as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:


	Assets (1)				Liabilities (1)
	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022		December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Up to 1 month ( 2 )		948,027,726		1,156,925,565		3,870,639,601		3,924,202,723
From more than 1 month to 3 month		372,964,126		378,153,999		288,142,094		333,552,210
From more than 3 month to 6 month		351,924,061		284,396,797		100,401,517		342,760,271
From more than 6 month to 12 month		311,728,457		236,503,073		33,725,396		13,392,406
From more than 12 month to 24 month		210,364,472		250,085,084		11,714,874		10,388,584
More than 24 months		349,270,361		433,127,189		18,691,790		15,713,621

TOTAL		2,544,279,203		2,739,191,707		4,323,315,272		4,640,009,815

(1)	These figures includes expected interest amounts. For floating rate instruments such interest amounts were calculated using interest rate prevailing at the end of each period.

(2)	The Bank has liquid assets such as cash and cash equivalents (Note 4), reverse repurchase agreements (Note 6.3) and BCRA liquidity bills (Note 10.1), among others, to settle its liabilities.

Additionally, the Bank has issued financial guarantees and loan commitments which may require outflows on demand.


Financial guarantees and loan commitments	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Up to 1 month		1,889,829,494		2,607,674,595
From more than 1 month to 3 month		22,031,136		20,057,032
From more than 3 month to 6 month		13,917,028		14,712,799
From more than 6 month to 12 month		23,063,990		7,609,973
From more than 12 month to 24 month		22,742,910		1,576,585
More than 24 months		5,176,587		2,847,496

TOTAL		1,976,761,145		2,654,478,480

The amounts of the Bank’s financial assets and liabilities, which were expected to be collected or paid twelve months after the closing date as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 are set forth below:


	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Financial assets
Loans and advances		559,634,833		683,212,273
Debt securities		134,719,555		5,242,340,911
Other financial assets		34,420,575		23,594,306

Total		728,774,963		5,949,147,490

Financial liabilities
Other financial liabilities		22,099,882		18,421,874
Bank loans		8,017,438		7,438,454
Deposits		289,344		241,877

Total		30,406,664		26,102,205