{"id":4397,"date":"2023-01-21T01:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:37:51","slug":"what-is-additional-tier-1-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-additional-tier-1-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Additional Tier-1 Bonds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About AT1 bonds<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These bonds are <strong>unsecured bonds<\/strong> that have perpetual tenors, are issued by banks and have <strong>no maturity date.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They have a call option, which can be used by the banks to buy these bonds back from investors. These bonds are typically used by banks to bolster their core or tier-1 capital.<\/li>\n<li>These AT1 bonds are subordinate to all other debt and only senior to common equity.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These bonds were <strong>introduced <\/strong>by the <strong>Basel accord<\/strong> after the global financial crisis to protect depositors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Basel Accord?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to a series of three international banking regulatory meetings that established capital requirements and risk measurements for global banks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/yes-bank-at1-bonds-bombay-high-court-8395311\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Additional Tier-1 bonds, and the case against Yes Bank<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT1 bonds are unsecured bonds that have perpetual tenors, are issued by banks and have no maturity date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}