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The European FIG market rode through 2025 on high demand for credit, providing bank issuers, large and small, with extremely advantageous funding conditions. Although investors have also benefitted from strong secondary market performance, as Atanas Dinov reports, that equilibrium may change in 2026, with anticipation mounting that spreads will widen
With a relentless flow of cash into credit markets this year, almost every borrower could be said to have done well. But some issuers stood out for their ability to establish new footholds in certain markets that have since paved the way for peers
The Australian dollar bond market’s growth has propelled it to be the third most important funding currency for some international bond issuers. Its ability to offer investor diversification and arbitrage funding is attracting an increasing number of issuers from spread-conscious SSAs to banks and companies seeking strategic capital, write Sarah Ainsworth and Atanas Dinov
EU politicians talk enthusiastically about making the bloc more competitive, but so far, its capital markets have struggled to match the efficiency of the US. Whether it can meet the booming demand for data centres will be a defining test of its ambitions, write George Smith, Chadwick Van Estrop and Thomas Hopkins
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◆ Issuer captures strong opening to launch capital pre-funding ◆ Achieves tightest spread from Spanish bank in longest tenor ◆ But as market weakened the deal lost some steam -
◆ Its first sub-€1bn tier two in four years ◆ First French euro bank capital sale since prime minister's resignation ◆ Mixed views on new issue concession
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Five banks in the GCC have opened books, or plan to, on new paper this week
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◆ Investors absorb new bank capital ◆ BBVA prices at tightest euro AT1 reset spread of 2025 ◆ Eurobank returns after May AT1 debut
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Younited mandates Citi for Italian ABS equity placement, while Santander returns with Kimi 14
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NBK will land inside a tier two from another Kuwaiti bank last month
