LONDON – Eligible capital of EU banks is reckoned to include some €213 billion in outstanding hybrid instruments, the increasingly popular types of securities that combine features of both debt and equity. This figure emerges from a quantitative analysis undertaken by the London-based Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), which has the job of trying to harmonise bank supervision across the 27-country EU.

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