◆ Deal unaffected by Japanese macro volatility, lead said ◆ Aggressive pricing led to heavy long-end attrition ◆ Continuing trend of heavy supply for dual tranche holdco senior trades

◆ Belgian utility goes for 10 year paper ◆ Issuer set final size at guidance ◆ Deal skims through fair value

◆ First IG corporate SLB of the year ◆ Deal lands at tight end of guidance ◆ Interest in SLB format on the slide

Attractive pricing versus dollars luring GCC borrowers back to the single currency

New product 'ticks boxes' including more investor diversification for Paris-based supranational, which also sold its largest Kangaroo

◆ UK lender raises $4.5bn-equivalent in five senior holding company tranches this week ◆ Both deals target long dated funding ◆ Despite secondary widening, euro offering lands with hardly any premium

Only one of Canada's big five banks has yet to publicly support new defence bank initiative

Hyperscaler earnings could become a crucial date for issuance funding calendars

Cologix taps private ABS for latest trade

Chemical sector's growing uncompetitiveness a problem when it comes to attracting investment in the capital markets

Canada throwing full weight behind plan for new multilateral lender for defence funding

Second Canadian lender to declare official support for embryonic SSA issuer as government takes lead on establishing new entity

Bond issues tighten across the board as borrowers plunge in to avoid perilous fourth quarter

Wind and solar park operator signs oversubscribed facility with new lenders

Committee featuring at least five major firms’ lawyers set up amid hopes for change in Venezuela

Anticipation of a 25bp rate cut kept the bond market quiet, though some plucky issuers found a window

Multilateral development banks find themselves swept up in two parallel waves of change. As bond issuers, they are having to deftly navigate capital markets that are still emerging from the end of years of historically low rates, being forced to call upon all their experience and sophistication as they fund across multiple markets. At the same time, with the pressure on to fill the huge gap in global development finance, these institutions are being asked to work out how to better use or expand their balance sheets and lend more — all while maintaining their precious credit ratings. GlobalCapital gathered some of the leading supranational issuers at a roundtable in New York City in May to discuss how best to deal with the challenges of this changing world.

There has never been so much momentum to reform the multilateral development banks. But most of the many avenues to expand their lending have run into difficulties. Jon Hay reports

Craig Coben examines whether it is true that no good deed goes unpunished

Investors and bankers grapple with 24% fall in Bitcoin since deal was rated

Investment banking travel was a relentless grind, not gold card access to global glamour

Eight banks provided loan facility to company

Vaccine bond programme to issue $1.5bn this year but needs new pledges

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