Loans: the real power behind the corporate bond business

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Loans: the real power behind the corporate bond business

Two things are clear from the first quarter DCM league tables: there’s more money in being a top 10 corporate bond house than there has been for years — and the composition of top 10 is changing faster than ever before. The reason: Europe’s banks are demanding the juiciest-ever bond mandates in return for extending loans to their closest relationship clients.

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