PRIOR to the Swiss government’s decision on the UBS Group AG-Credit Suisse Group AG merger, which led to the write-down of the latter’s CHF16 billion (RM77 billion) Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital, or contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds, not many in Malaysia would have heard of these hybrid securities that have the characteristics of both debt and equity.

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