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Public sector issuers have sailed through a volatile first five months of 2026, despite renewed inflation and growth concerns, writes Addison Gong. Their ability to adjust to higher yields and shorter demand ensured investors devoured a large slug of issuance laying a solid foundation for the rest of the year

In a complex market environment, AFL, the only French bank owned by local governments, will diversify its funding sources further in 2026 to strengthen the resilience and competitiveness of its credit. In this interview with GlobalCapital, Yves Millardet, chairman of AFL’s executive board explains how it is expanding its footprint across bond markets and continuing to focus on optimising funding costs as part of a strategy designed to secure financing for French local public investment for the long term

The Hong Kong dollar bond market is evolving beyond being one exclusively of private placements to one where public issuance of varying sizes and maturities is becoming more common. The greater frequency of public issuance is leading to more opportunities for investors and issuers alike. Sustaining this growth will require a bigger variety of asset classes, and more diversified local and international participation. GlobalCapital assembled a group of investors and issuers from across the bond market to discuss this burgeoning market and the progress they want to see from it in the future.

A rally thanks to cheaper oil has let the Gilt market defer its reckoning with political risk. But it is coming, for sure

The interventionist approach of the US government in forcing Anthropic to pull cutting edge model should worry Europeans

I thought the grass would be greener in fintech land, but it’s patchy and dreary

Impressions from Global ABS

◆ What now for European Secured Notes ater long-awaited debut? ◆ The mood in European securitization amid MFS fallout and reg reform ◆ Digitalisation of bond market is up to the regulators

Markets are looking to the authorities to simplify blockchain issues, but they may not have the purest motives

The new European Secured Note market is keen to secure regulatory recognition for the new product but there are advantages to not having it

Investors weighed risk, relative value, and private credit growth

Record attendance and cross-sector panels framed Europe's evolving securitisation agenda