Senior Debt

◆ Stability leads to third day of FIG sterling issuance ◆ Rabo prints its first tier two four years ◆ BBVA completes first sterling senior bond since 2020

Atanas Dinov, September 23, 2026

Senior Debt

BBVA and Bawag print senior green bonds amid stable but selective market

◆ Receptive but crowded FIG market requires concessions for funding to clear ◆ BBVA goes big with its first SP in more than two years ◆ Bawag issues first bond after PTSB acquisition

Atanas Dinov, September 22, 2026

FIG

Dark clouds surround The Eiffel Tower as seen from Rue Soufflot , a street lined with impressive apartment buildings ,Paris ,France

French banks grab opportunistic funding across the capital stack as OATs deteriorate

Bank issuance ranges from strategic tier one capital to insurance subsidiary funding externalisation and big senior bond offerings

Atanas Dinov, September 22, 2026

FIG

Building of AIB (Allied Irish Bank) branch in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland

AIB achieves 'amazing spread' on green senior offering

◆ Issuer's joint-tightest spread since 2020 ◆ Constructive backdrop helped execution, says lead ◆ Busy primary market expected on Tuesday

Flynn Nicholls, September 21, 2026

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Sovereign action needed, say FIG syndicators

Definitive action on European’s sovereign debt crisis is needed before senior unsecured markets can re-open, bankers said on Wednesday as financial institutions tapped covered bonds for the second day running.

September 28, 2011
FIG

Senior market rallies after ECB purchase programme rumours

Debate raged on Tuesday morning over whether or not a European Central Bank covered bond purchase programme (CBPP) could reignite the senior FIG market. While most bankers agreed such a move would be positive for the covered bond market and could by extension improve conditions in senior, many called on the ECB to buy senior directly.

September 27, 2011
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Bankers bemoan ECB covered bond purchase plan

Participants in the senior unsecured FIG market on Monday struggled to make sense of the ECB’s announcement that it would consider buying covered bonds, saying it would encourage more encumbrance of assets and make the possibility of gaining senior funding even more remote.

September 26, 2011
FIG

Euro and dollar buybacks for Man

Man Group on Wednesday priced its dollar buyback as well as releasing details of a separate cash tender on a euro issue.

September 23, 2011
FIG

Prohibitive pricing the least of FIG’s worries

In spite of a stronger start to the week and encouraging supply in corporate and covered bonds on Wednesday, any positive sentiment that existed in the senior FIG market withered and died on Thursday after Moody’s downgrade of three US banks pushed indices and cash spreads wider.

September 23, 2011
FIG

Man completes buybacks in euros and dollars

Man Group yesterday priced its dollar buyback as well as releasing details of a separate cash tender on a euro issue.

September 22, 2011