Heard on the Street: Switzerland goes loco for CoCo bonds

Swiss banks will feel some relief after experts in the country proposed new capital requirements

UBS and Credit Suisse can breathe a little easier.

A Swiss Commission of Experts may have just proposed the country's two biggest banks be required to hold capital equivalent to 19% of their risk-weighted assets, nearly three times the Basel III minimum. For a country so reliant on confidence in its financial system that makes sense.

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