MUFG clients hit with $700m in losses on Credit Suisse AT1 bonds

Wealthy Japanese customers' investments wiped out in Swiss bank rescue

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The bonds sold by Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley account for about 4% of Credit Suisse's total issuance of AT1 bonds. (Photo by June Watanabe)

MASAYUKI SHIKATA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities sold about 95 billion yen ($712 million) worth of ill-fated Credit Suisse bonds to mostly wealthy domestic clients who saw the value of those investments wiped out when the Swiss bank was rescued by rival UBS, sources said Friday.

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