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European ABS market participants are optimistic about 2024, despite the persistence of rates volatility and economic fears. While poor arbitrage haunts the CLO market, managers are ready to tighten the straps on their captive equity funds and soldier on. George Smith and Victoria Thiele assess the market outlook for European securitized products

The main consideration for eurozone banks at the start of 2023 was to garner what remained of the ECB bid for covered bonds but by the end of the year they had negotiated not one but two crises. Sarah Ainsworth reports on how, despite all the volatility, they navigated another strong year for issuance

A dreadful year for ECM volumes has not helped European banks play a bigger part in EMEA equity capital markets. But there are dreams of a better 2024 and, as John Crabb and Aidan Gregory report, Europe’s banks have specialisms up their sleeves to help them grab market share

The Swiss franc bond market weathered the collapse of one of its two biggest players in 2023 to enjoy its busiest year since 2014. Investors welcomed foreign issuers from all quarters with open arms and, as Sophie Astles writes, those visitors may be here to stay

Observers could have been forgiven for thinking the additional tier one market might be as defunct as Credit Suisse, the bank whose demise mired it in controversy. By the autumn AT1s had come roaring back but, as Sarah Aisnworth reports, this was not 2023’s only wild ride in the FIG primary market

For the first time since the global financial crisis, there is optimism that much-needed positive and proportionate regulatory reform is coming to European securitization. Yet there is a long way to go before glimmers of hope translate into concrete changes or have a meaningful impact, write Tom Lemmon and George Smith.

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GlobalCapital presents the nominations for its 21st annual Awards for the loan, leveraged finance and private debt markets.

Sovereign, supranational and agency issuers made an early start to what promised to be a treacherous 2023 in the primary bond market. They will have been glad they front-loaded, as the year more than delivered on that promise. Rates volatility and rising inflation dictated when issuers could find a window to bring a deal and quantitative tightening, war and a banking crisis have left issuers needing to pay even more care to how they approach 2024.