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Under the UBS-Credit Suisse merger deal, holders of Credit Suisse AT1 bonds will get nothing

Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders eye possible legal action

Lawyers from Switzerland, the US and UK are talking to a number of Credit Suisse Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bond holders about possible legal action after the state-backed rescue of Credit Suisse by UBS wiped out AT1 bonds, law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has said.

Business • 21 Mar 23

Debenhams is trying to resist its biggest shareholder Sports Direct taking control of the group

Debenhams' bondholders back restructuring

Debenhams' bondholders have agreed to change the terms of some of their bonds.

Business • 28 Mar 19

IBRC was set up in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2011 and was made up of the failed lenders Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide

Q&A - IBRC to fully repay junior bondholders

The Joint Special Liquidators for IBRC confirmed today that junior bondholders in the former Anglo Irish Bank will be fully repaid as part of the liquidation process.

Business • 18 Dec 18

Joan Burton was speaking following correspondence which suggests burning bondholders may be difficult

Burton says junior bondholders should not be paid

Tánaiste Joan Burton has said the Government will use every legal means available to ensure junior bondholders in IBRC are not paid.

News • 09 Jun 15

Enda Kenny sees no circumstances that the bondholders will be paid

Kenny 'does not see' junior bondholders being paid

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he does not see any circumstances where junior bondholders will be paid following the liquidation of IBRC.

News • 08 Dec 14

The case relates to a restructuring of Argentinian bonds offered after its 2002 default

Judge urges Argentina, bondholders to reach deal

A US judge ordered Argentina and investors who did not participate in the country's past debt restructurings to meet "continuously" with a court-appointed mediator until a settlement is reached, warning of the threat of a new default.

Business • 23 Jul 14

Klaus Regling said the ESM has been authorised to set up a €60bn fund to recapitalise euro area banks

Low borrowing costs may be 'reward' - ESM chief

The head of the European Union’s bailout fund has said that Ireland's currently low cost of borrowing may be a reward from the market for not imposing losses on senior bondholders of bank debt.

Business • 20 Jan 14

Ajai Chopra is set to retire from the IMF after 30 years at the organisation

Unfair to bail out bondholders over taxpapers: IMF

It was unfair to impose the burden of supporting banks on Irish taxpayers while senior unguaranteed bank bondholders were paid out, the IMF's Ajai Chopra has said.

Business • 20 Dec 13

Co-operative Group's recapitalisation of its banking arm had been approved by creditors

Co-Op Bank's rescue approved by bondholders

The Co-operative Group said a £1.5 billion sterling recapitalisation of its banking arm had been approved by creditors and will be completed if it is given permission by a court tomorrow.

Business • 17 Dec 13

The Government must pay senior bondholders

Bondholders to get €750m of IBRC liquidation costs

At least €750 million of the estimated €1 billion in "transaction costs" arising from the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will be paid to bondholders.

Business • 08 Feb 13

Hernan Lorenzino says the government will take the judge's ruling to the US Second Circuit Appeals Court in Manhattan on Monday

Argentina to fight bond investor ruling

Argentina is willing to take its debt fight with "holdout" bond investors to the US Supreme Court if necessary, Economy Minister Hernan Mr Lorenzino has said.

Business • 23 Nov 12

$The ARA Libertad is valued between $10m-$15m, only a fraction of what the hedge fund is claiming$

Bondholders nab Argentine Naval ship

Economics Correspondent Sean Whelan reports that defaulting on national debt does not make all one's problems disappear.

Special Reports • 04 Oct 12

Argentine Navy ship nabbed by bondholder

Next week President Higgins will be in Buenos Aires, where he will honour the memory of Admiral William Brown, the founder of the Argentine Navy.

Business • 05 Oct 12

Eamon Gilmore said that any change on imposing losses on bondholders would be 'helpful' to Ireland

Imposing losses on bondholders helpful - Tánaiste

The Reuters news agency has reported that the ECB is willing to see senior bondholders take losses when banks that are not systemically important fail.

Business • 17 Jul 12

Greece extends bond swap deadline again

Greece has extended a deadline for a second time today for remaining bondholders to accept a debt swap.

Business • 05 Apr 12

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