US banking turmoil: Wipeout of risky bonds upends $275-billion market

UBS Group AG told Credit Suisse wealth bankers it's weighing financial sweeteners for them to stay as it seeks to reassure key staff following the takeover

Among the biggest losers in the shotgun sale of Credit Suisse Group are investors in the firm’s riskiest bonds, known as AT1s, worth $17 billion. 

These money managers are set to be wiped out — potentially sending that $275 billion market for bank funding into a tailspin, while threatening blowback for European policy makers in crisis-fighting mode.

Money managers are frantically poring through the fine print for these so-called additional tier 1 securities to understand if authorities in other countries could repeat what the Swiss government did on Sunday: Wiping them out while preserving $3.3 billion of value for equity investors. That’s