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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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◆ DOGE threatens US CMBS recovery ◆ Drill, baby, drill? Borrow, habibi, borrow ◆ Cracks appear in European credit market
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Froth evaporates in unsecured FIG as corporates still fly
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◆ Pace of FIG issuance in the US slows down ◆ Nordea the sole Yankee financial issuer this week ◆ Local insurers make up the rest of the primary action with senior and subordinated offerings
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◆ CA experiences big drop in orders ◆ BCP struggled to tighten from IPT ◆ FIG deals struggle even as corps succeed
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◆ French bank’s insurance arm completes first tier one print less than a month after parent bank’s AT1 ◆ Deal offers heightened premium ◆ Outcome amid volatility deemed ‘pretty decent’ by rival
