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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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Successful corporates and FIG bonds belie move to ‘higher volatility regime' -
◆ Week-long flow of insurance capital sales in euros and sterling ◆ ASR goes for a longer and tight RT1 ◆ Both issuers using proceeds to buy back capital notes
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◆ Sterling market embraces diverse set of insurance sector deals ◆ L&G underlines different current dynamics in tier two and RT1 asset classes ◆ Proceeds to go for buyback ahead of October call
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◆ Rare deeply subordinated capital from an insurer in sterling very popular ◆ Potentially negative new issue premium ◆ First possible window taken
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◆ Value versus domestic curve debated ◆ Scarce Nordic tier two supply helped trade ◆ Nordic names 'still performing during volatility'
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Subordinated deals make up a larger share of March's supply than usual
