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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
Q&As
Philippe Picagne, senior analyst — insurance, at CreditSights, and University Professor, examines the challenges facing the European insurance sector, and explores how Solvency II is affecting their strategies, not least ...
CreditSights: European insurers
Focus
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
Q&As
In spite of a clear, early signal of its direction of travel, the German goverment has yet to finalise implementation of the BRRD, in particular details as to how and just which senior unsecured creditors will be ...
BRRD in Germany: key details undecided
Focus
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
Q&As
HSBC provided a late highlight to first quarter Additional Tier 1 activity with a $2.25bn transaction in late March that rounded off a constructive first quarter in which issuers across the credit spectrum were able to find ...
HSBC caps Q1 as ECB QE reboots AT1
Market
Crédit Agricole Assurances in early January squeezed in the last grandfathered Tier 1 trade before Solvency II took full effect later in the month, with the sector now awaiting the first fully-fledged trades under the new ...
CAA under the wire, Solvency II Tier 1 awaited
Market
As the details of the Solvency II are fleshed out, Hervé Ekué, partner, Allen & Overy LLP, Paris, offers an overview of Tier 1 issuances under the insurance industry framework. ...
A tool to satisfy capital requirements
Focus
UBS used a greenshoe on an Additional Tier 1 on 13 February, including the option for the first time on such an instrument in a bid to improve the performance of AT1s by allowing lead managers to better support new issues. ...
Greenshoe promises greater AT1 stability
Market
Allianz achieved the lowest coupon and tightest spread on a subordinated transaction in the insurance sector since the financial crisis with a Eu1.5bn 2.241% 30 year non-call 10 Tier 2 issue on 30 March. ...
Allianz hits post-crisis tight with Tier 2
Market
A year ago Nordic banks had yet to issue Additional Tier 1, but 12 months on virtually all the region’s leading players have taken up the capital instrument — whether in euros, dollars or their local currencies. However, ...
Nordic season!
Focus
Crédit Agricole CIB DCM Solutions conducted an investor survey on Solvency II Tier 1 hybrid instruments in January and we are pleased to present the results here. ...
Investor survey Solvency II Tier 1
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