BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Hybrid Financial Instrument

  • a financial instrument such as a convertible bond that has characteristics of multiple types of instruments, often convertible from one to another

Additional Resources

Final standard on certain hybrid financial instruments
FASB has issued a final Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 155, Accounting for Certain Hybrid Instruments, an amendment to FASB Statements Nos. 133 and 140. Among other things, the standard allows financial instruments that have embedded derivatives to be accounted for as a whole, eliminating the need to...
Tags: FINANCE, financial, Financial Accounting Standards Board
Research articles 2006-05-01
Companies' IPOshave new vehicle
INVESTORS HAVE TENDED to turn up their noses at initial public offerings of unglamorous businesses that chalk up steady performance year after year but have little prospect of explosive growth. Still, more than a dozen such companies, from rural telephone operators to a fast-food franchisee and a...
Tags: FINANCE, income, Internal Revenue Service, IPO, payment, security, Taxes, yield
Research articles 2004-07-29
Kookmin set to offer hybrid instrument.
Jan 08, 2003 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) Kookmin Bank is hoping to raise as much as $US1 billion from its planned hybrid security offering. South Korea's largest bank will commence an international road show to market the offering in the...
Tags: ING Group, SECURITY, UBS Warburg
Research articles 2003-01-08
Westpac to raise $600m for buyback.
Nov 12, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia's Westpac Banking plans a raising of as much as $A700 million to fund a share buy-back in calendar 2003. On 13 November 2002, it will announce a hybrid equity instrument, lead managed by...
Tags: Salomon Smith Barney, Westpac Banking Corp.
Research articles 2002-11-12
Fitch Rates Capital One Capital III $650MM Capital Securities 'BBB-'
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB-' rating to Capital One Capital III's issuance of $650 million hybrid capital instrument with a scheduled maturity of August 2036 and a final repayment date of August 2066. Payments may be deferred for up to 10 years if Capital One Financial...
Tags: security
Research articles 2006-07-31
Lion mulls Independent bid funding.
Byline: Simon Evans Dec 04, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Lion Nathan is expected to formally lodge its bid for Independent Liquor by mid-day on 6 December 2006. If the bid succeeds, the company intends to use bridging...
Tags: Lion Nathan Ltd.
Research articles 2006-12-04
Jury Out on Appeal For Lloyds' Hybrids
By Jane Merriman and Alex ChambersLONDON (Reuters UK) - Lloyds LLOY looks set to get investor support for a hybrid bond exchange into 7.5 billion pounds of new enhanced capital notes ECN but it is not clear how much wider appeal these new securities will command.That wider appeal could be...
Tags: Bank, Security, Bond, Equity, Investor, Lloyds, Investment, Financial Services
News items 2009-11-11
UK experiment raises prospect of new asset class
UK regulators have embarked on an experiment that could redefine the way banks are financed. As part of a £21bn capital raising, Lloyds Banking Group, in which the government has a 43 per cent stake, launched an offer for holders of about £16bn of outstanding hybrid debt to exchange into...
Tags: Bank, Debt
News items 2009-11-05
A SECURE ALTERNATIVE TO AN IPO?
Financial institutions are offering increasingly innovative instruments for their corporate clients. One of the latest to arrive on the US market is the income deposit security. By Santiago FittipaldiCanada's Imperial Bank of Commerce CIBC has delivered US corporate finance directors an innovative capital market instrument. Income deposit securities IDSs, a...
Tags: US Companies
Research articles 2004-01-01
Airport to raise $650m.
Byline: Alexander Symonds Nov 08, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A new listed hybrid instrument will be created for Sydney Airport, part of the Macquarie Airports fund. In total, 6.5 million Sydney Kingsford Smith Interest Earning Securities SKIES...
Tags: ABN AMRO, FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., hybrid, Investment, MARKETING
Research articles 2006-11-08
Structured Notes to Become More Alluring for Thai Investors.
By Darana Chudasri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 26--Structured notes will become an increasingly attractive product for institutional investors this year in the wake of rising interest rates, according to ABN Amro treasurers. Kitti Charoenkitchaichana, a...
Tags: ABN AMRO, Bangkok Post, FINANCE, investor
Research articles 2004-05-26
Safe investment trip is FLIERS priority.
Jul 23, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Hybrid securities are becoming a popular instrument for raising capital in Australia. Over $A3.5bn worth of these securities were issued in 2001, and in the year to date, $A1.4bn worth of them have...
Tags: Macquarie Bank Ltd., UBS Warburg
Research articles 2002-07-24