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Barclays PLC : Barclays Plans CoCo Bond Sale
03/27/2013| 07:19am US/Eastern
By Art Patnaude
U.K. lender Barclays PLC (BCS) is planning to sell contingent capital bonds, known as CoCos, as part of its plans to meet capital requirements imposed by regulators.
CoCos are aimed at helping eliminate taxpayer-led bailouts in the banking sector by providing financial companies with an extra funding cushion. This type of debt can completely lose its value if the bank breaches a predetermined level of capital, making it riskier for investors than more typical bonds.
The new CoCo bond will have a maturity of 10 years, and will be callable after five years, a banker working on the deal said.
Barclays issued a $3 billion coco bond in November, and the structure of the new deal will be similar. The November deal had a maturity of 10 years, and priced with a yield of 7.625%.
Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities were hired to manage the deal.
At the bank's next annual general meeting, shareholders will be asked to approve the issuance of CoCos that convert into equity, as opposed to being completed wiped out.
L'offerta è parte di un esercizio di gestione delle passività in cui Barclays prevede di riacquistare USD1bn di debito subordinato e sostituirlo con cocos