CoCo bonds have become too big to abolish
By Nicholas DunbarApril 25, 2024
The near-collapse of Credit Suisse and its forced takeover by UBS led to a controversial writedown of $18bn of contingent convertible bonds, known as CoCos, triggering a flood of lawsuits from aggrieved investors.
Now the Basel Committee is mulling whether such ...
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