After six weeks without any financial institutions sub debt issuance, Aviva successfully reopened the market on 28 May with a dual tranche, Eu900m and £400m, Tier 2 offering. Here, Susan Sharrock Yates, deputy group ...
Aviva: Friendly reopener
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Swiss Life on 8 June hit a short issuance window to sell a Eu750m perpetual non-call 10 hybrid on the back of a twice oversubscribed order book before conditions again deteriorated and insurance sub debt issuance dried up. ...
Swiss Life: Last hurrah
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SCOR successfully executed a Eu250m 32NC12 Tier 2 issue on 2 June and here Marco Circelli, head of group capital and treasury management, SCOR SE, explains the thinking behind it. ...
SCOR
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The impact of Solvency II is expected to hit the capital markets in 2015 via the first Tier 1-style structures under the new framework. Bank+Insurance Hybrid Capital surveyed leading market participants to find out how the ...
Solvency II Tier 1 take-off
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The European Banking Authority is playing a lead role in the evolution of hybrid capital, most recently with the publication of an AT1 monitoring report. Here, Delphine Reymondon, head of unit, capital and asset/liability ...
EBA: AT1 monitor
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Crédit Agricole Assurances (CAA) marked its debut in the primary market on 7 October with a Eu750m perpetual non-call 11 issue. Here, Grégory Erphelin, chief financial officer at CAA, discusses the execution of the debut ...
Crédit Agricole Assurances: Going solo
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CNP Assurances returned to the subordinated debt market on 12 November to price a Eu500m perpetual non-call 10 issue, with CA-CIB as a joint bookrunner. Vincent Damas, director for ALM and funding, and Stéphane Trarieux, ...
CNP Assurances: Perpetual return
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The UK has led the way in new-style bank capital instruments and sterling issuance has found its way into investors’ portfolios, but the pace of regulatory change has brought with it uncertainty. A difficult summer has ...
Roundtable: Team UK
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Italy’s UniCredit launched its second AT1 transaction, a Eu1bn issue, into a hesitant post-summer market at the beginning of September. Here, Waleed El Amir, head of strategic funding and portfolio at UniCredit, gives his ...
UniCredit: Quality over quantity
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