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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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High demand for senior and tier two debt keeps deals rolling in -
◆ Austria bank compresses funding cost as investors remain avid buyers of tier two bonds ◆ Product described as 'most attractive' within the FIG capital structure ◆ Deal lands with negligible premium, if any
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Swedish specialist lender is transferring risk from its consumer loans portfolio
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◆ Issuer takes advantage of capped size ◆ Rarity element provides tailwind for tight pricing ◆ Others take different markets as Nordea stays local for AT1 and Allianz eyes dollars for RT1
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Issuers shift the primary market equilibrium in their favour but questions raised whether it can last
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◆ Bank issues two deals a day after record earnings ◆ Week's fourth euro tier two ends with largest demand ◆ Earlier senior bond achieves highest-ever book for an Australian dollar credit trade
