© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

Leader

Top Section/Ad

Top Section/Ad

Most recent


Not every borrower can print overseas in their local currency, but for those that can, it is a great tool
Issuers have frontloaded their core currency funding and could benefit from turning their attention to other projects as the year draws to an end
Reforms should focus on banks' access to liquidity, not capital
Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
More articles/Ad

More articles/Ad

More articles

  • Covered bond disclosure has come on leaps and bounds over the past few years, but this week it took a humble sellside analyst to tell teams of industry specialists that, despite all their strenuous efforts, they had got it wrong.
  • Investors have been wringing their hands about secondary trading of EM bonds recently. Violent price action fosters illiquidity and makes new issues tough to execute. Russia’s altercation with Ukraine is just the latest driver of that. But the real problem that EM desks are going to face is not disruption, but the potential lack of bond and loan business as growth slows.
  • The granting of bond issuing powers to the devolved Scottish government is nothing but a political play.
  • It's great when a plan comes together, especially in times like these, when the plan involves recapitalising Europe's crisis-weary banks with a high-yielding but risky instrument that could potentially lose you a lot of money.
  • The relentless hunt for yield that has driven investors from Spain and Italy into Portugal and now possibly Greece, is beginning to take on some of the hallmarks of the catastrophe of 2007 and 2008.
  • The region's primary equity issuance is being stymied by capital outflows and poor stock market performance. With a blackout period ahead of annual financial results also beginning, there could be few new deals until March.