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Anglo irish 807 28,5 denaro 30.5 lettera
Anglo irish 2015 35,5 denaro 37,5 lettera.
By John Glover
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bonds of Anglo Irish Bank Corp., the
nationalized lender, jumped after an official said the bank
asked for approval to buy back subordinated debt and the
government announced plans to split the bank into two parts.
The lender’s 750 million euros ($950 million) of floating-
rate notes due 2017 soared 6.5 cents on the euro to 27.5 cents,
equivalent to a 31 percent gain, data compiled by Bloomberg
show. The Dublin-based lender’s 500 million euros of floating-
rate notes due 2016 also rose, increasing to 28.5 cents on the
euro from 26.5 cents, the data show.
Anglo Irish Chief Financial Officer Maarten van Eden said
yesterday that the bank asked regulators for approval to buy
back subordinated debt. The lender, which lost 20 billion euros
in two years as property loans soured, will be divided into so-
called good and bad banks, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said
yesterday, without specifying how the debt would be allocated.
“The recovery for subordinated bondholders is bound to be
limited,” said Eleonore Lamberty, a credit analyst at ING Bank
NV in Amsterdam. “Senior debt, being a prime financing source,
is very likely to be transferred to the funding bank,” she
said, referring to the good bank owned and guaranteed by the
state that will continue to operate.
An asset-recovery bank will be run down over time,
Ireland’s Lenihan said.
Tender Takeup
In July last year, Anglo Irish tendered for seven
subordinated bonds, offering to pay 27 percent to 55 percent of
face value for the securities. Bondholders took up the offer,
selling back as much as 98 percent of a so-called Tier 1 note
and as little as 52 percent of a lower Tier 2 security.
“We’re still waiting to hear if a subordinated bond
buyback or exchange will happen,” said Bill Blain, co-head of
fixed income at Matrix Corporate Capital LLP in London. “If it
does, then get out.”
A buyback or exchange is likely to take place at about 30
percent of par, Blain said.
Credit-default swaps on the bank’s subordinated debt fell
1.4 percentage points to 41.6 percent upfront and 5 percent a
year, meaning it costs 4.16 million euros in advance and 500,000
euros annually to insure 10 million euros of debt for five
years. The contracts imply a 72.3 percent likelihood of default
within five years.
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