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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 appetite for sub-benchmark pair ◆ Julius Baer issues in dollars after no replacement of Swiss franc AT1 last year ◆ Iceland’s Landsbankinn debuts in international AT1 market -
◆ French bank offers premium to investors to attain size target ◆ Deal is the tightest and longest French euro tier two in 2025 ◆ Rare Ibercaja also goes longer than the norm
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◆ Fair value considerations point to wide range but no concession paid ◆ Earnings and market backdrop provide tailwind for tight pricing ◆ Issuer's first callable tier two in euros since 2022
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◆ Second Icelandic AT1 in five months after no issuance for four years ◆ Issuer on the road ahead of dollar outing ◆ Arion's recent deal is the main reference
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New deal marks the first broadly wholesale capital issuance in Swiss francs after Credit Suisse's demise, say local bankers
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◆ Trump orders review of US involvement in multilateral development banks ◆ What's driving Reverse Yankee issuance? ◆ Deutsche Bank sparks new controversy in AT1 capital
