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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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With issuers in earnings blackouts or nearing the end of their 2025 programmes, issuance slumped in October compared to the September rush -
Meanwhile UBS prepares to appeal court's decision that writing down Credit Suisse AT1s was unlawful
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The deal was priced in a lighter week for euro issuance, with just two other deals in the pipeline
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Regulator plans to implement formulaic p-factor proposed in October 2024
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BMW also releases initial price thoughts for its own UK auto deal
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◆ Barclays raises €1.75bn in dual tranche senior ... ◆ and issues Singapore dollar AT1 ◆ Lloyds pulls $9bn of orders for US dollar AT1
