Standard Chartered gets US$20bn of orders for AT1 bond
By Will Caiger-Smith
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (IFR) - Standard Chartered Bank built an order book of US$20bn for its US$2bn perpetual non-call 5.5-year Additional Tier 1 bond that priced on Thursday, according to a lead on the transaction.
The deal priced at a yield of 7.5%, inside earlier guidance of 7.625% and IPTs of 8% area.
The bonds will convert to equity if the bank's Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio falls below 7%.
Standard Chartered (HKSE: 2888.HK - news) was structuring adviser and joint lead manager. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank (LSE: 0H7D.L - news) , Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale (Swiss: 519928.SW - news) and UBS (LSE: 0QNR.L - news) were joint leads. (Reporting by Will Caiger-Smith; Editing by Marc Carnegie)