Watermark
Go to Asia edition

Corporate bonds on fire as mandos, hybrids, seniors fly

Europe’s corporate bond market is on classic form, swallowing six-tranche monster deals, hybrid issues paired with senior and other juicy trades day after day. Vodafone’s £3.4bn mandatorily convertible bond grabbed the attention on Tuesday with coupons that looked astonishingly low for sub debt, but behind it all is a rally caused by, of all things, economic uncertainty.

  • By Jon Hay
  • 06 Mar 2019

“We’re seeing a definite recovery in assets and a lot of issuance, driven by a relatively stable macro picture,” said a credit investor in London. But on closer examination, what he meant by relatively stable was monetary policy.

“The PMI data and leading indicators do suggest a soft ...

Please take a trial or subscribe to access this content.

Contact our subscriptions team to discuss your access: subs@globalcapital.com

Or sign up for a trial to gain full access to the entire site for a limited period.

Free Trial
Log in

Corporate access

To discuss GlobalCapital access for your entire department or company please contact our subscriptions sales team at: subs@globalcapital.com or find out more online here.

All Corporate Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
View full table
For detailed analysis: Dealogic
  • Last updated
  • 19 Sep 2019
1 JPMorgan 109,927.46 548 5.97%
2 Citi 99,462.90 510 5.40%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 96,422.40 491 5.24%
4 Barclays 84,649.13 363 4.60%
5 Goldman Sachs 72,819.63 356 3.96%

Bookrunners of Euro Denominated Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
View full table
For detailed analysis: Dealogic
  • Last updated
  • Today
1 Barclays 24,662.19 69 7.81%
2 BNP Paribas 22,906.48 127 7.25%
3 Deutsche Bank 19,972.27 94 6.32%
4 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 18,114.30 84 5.73%
5 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 17,700.68 61 5.60%

Bookrunners of European HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount €m No of issues Share %
View full table
For detailed analysis: Dealogic
  • Last updated
  • Today
1 Citi 5,481.64 30 9.01%
2 JPMorgan 4,489.79 35 7.38%
3 Deutsche Bank 4,163.77 26 6.85%
4 Goldman Sachs 4,137.68 31 6.80%
5 Barclays 3,944.19 26 6.49%

Bookrunners of Dollar Denominated HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
View full table
For detailed analysis: Dealogic
  • Last updated
  • Today
1 JPMorgan 21,777.85 178 9.62%
2 Citi 20,535.92 160 9.07%
3 Goldman Sachs 16,887.66 130 7.46%
4 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 16,122.51 140 7.12%
5 Morgan Stanley 14,536.57 101 6.42%

Bookrunners of European Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
View full table
For detailed analysis: Dealogic
  • Last updated
  • Today
1 BNP Paribas 21,308.46 122 5.87%
2 Barclays 19,367.52 80 5.33%
3 JPMorgan 18,474.40 88 5.09%
4 Citi 18,466.69 91 5.09%
5 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 17,848.07 86 4.91%