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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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◆ Strong market for subordinated bank debt in euros and dollars ◆ Investors buy ‘undersupplied’ UniCredit AT1 at multi-year low yield in the asset class ◆ Barclays, SMFG and ENBD target dollar AT1 buyers -
Development banks kick off 2025, but private investors have a growing presence too
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◆ Issuer hits a market embracing every type of FIG deal ◆ Big order attrition but no concession paid ◆ CCF prepares to optimise tier two capital well ahead of call
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Some FIG primary trades experienced big attrition levels this week in a sign that dynamics could be shifting
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◆ Investors rush to buy despite yield compression... ◆ ... as French bank aims for both big size and 10 year non-call ◆ Issuer achieves lowest euro reset spread
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◆ Praise from bankers away from transaction ◆ Deal launched into market 'that wants to buy AT1s' ◆ Post-CPI spike in US Treasury yields not viewed as game changer
