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CFO and former trader is seen as natural successor after Noel Quinn unexpectedly stepped down
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The Aussie dollar investor pool is diverse deep; dive in and take size
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If rate cuts are further delayed, the red hot streak of floating rate note issuance will continue
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Société Générale’s plan to escape its long underperformance is an old idea: ‘originate to distribute’
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Markets have become tricky and treacherous again
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The market needs a rethink on how to understand and handle the price advantage for green bond issuers
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Waiting till nearer summer to print could give banks even cheaper costs of funding
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Michael Klein’s attempted spin-off of Credit Suisse’s investment bank was complex and conflicted, but it could have reshaped the landscape in a way the UBS takeover does not
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Bank must accept a perfect deal may not be possible while it has Russia exposure
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European financial institutions should not neglect investors wanting supply in the belly of the curve
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Primary markets remain in good shape, but they are not firing as well as they were a couple of weeks back
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European insurance companies should make the most of favourable conditions to grow nascent asset class
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Why lock in a high spread just because primary conditions are stellar?
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European primary market activity has thrived this year with the central bank gone from the market
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How the new asset class performs under stress will drive investor confidence and determine its success
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Investors are hungry for higher yielding FIG bonds
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Green bond market needs to discover its real identity and purpose
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Starving investors of exposure to it should mean that the bank can lower the cost of its next new issue
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If retail investors aren’t getting involved at a time when interest rates are at their highest for a decade and savers are raring to engage, then when are they ever?
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Selling NatWest shares on the cheap to retail investors risks political controversy and won’t boost interest in the UK’s downtrodden equity market
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◆ Records smashed in primary markets but what's driving it? ◆ Why order books are so swollen ◆ Rampant demand but companies want to cut hybrid debt
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Banks should aim to average their cost of funding. Issuing regularly throughout the cycle, come rain or shine, will enhance their market standing
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The election result may not have hurt Western markets, but political risk bulks huge this year
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Returning investors to the asset class are playing the spread between different varieties of bank bonds, giving issuers something to think about and swelling their order books
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◆ Super sterling welcomes corporate first timers ◆ SSAs switch tactics in UK market ◆ Bill on bonds
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◆ SSAs throw etiquette out of the window in rapid start to year ◆ Banks blind-sided by sudden correction ◆ Mixed fortunes for corporate issuers
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The ebullient market conditions as 2023 ends are unlikely to last. Issuers must be ready for liquidity to ebb abruptly