UBS $1 Billion AT1 Sale Rakes in Nearly $12 Billion of Orders

  • Bank plans to issue as much as $2 billion AT1 bonds in 2024
  • It aims to beef up a capital buffer over the next five years

The UBS headquarters in Zurich.

Photographer: Pascal Mora/Bloomberg
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UBS Group AG sold dollar-denominated Additional Tier 1 notes just a day after setting out plans to sell billions more of the risky securities in the coming years.

The Swiss lender pricedBloomberg Terminal $1 billion of securities callable in April 2031 to yield 7.75%, according to a person with knowledge of the sale, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. It follows UBS’s return to the market in November, when it pulled in $36 billion of orders for $3.5 billion of AT1s across two tranches — a deal that marked a recovery of the market in a tumultuous year.