Issues

UK Financial Conduct Authority’s investigation could bring needed rigour

Banks alleviate funding costs and diversify buyers as money market funds emerge from banking crisis

Debt ceiling and mixed rate expectations are putting a damper on new issuance

If Europe’s biggest IPO trades down, London will be put in the stocks — no matter how bad the market

WE Soda’s listing is important for Europe and London, but burnt by the awful market, bankers don’t expect too much

Investor diversification and duration lure issuers, but lower need for single currency and lack of arb will limit further issuance

Japanese life insurer buys entire amount of deal designed to fund athlete education and facilities

The Italian bank is basing the next phase of its development on international expansion and close collaboration with its private banking clients

Early hopes of a change of policy, if not of leader

CH Guenther & Sons is refinancing at higher margin

CVS Health Corp dashed to the dollar bond market with its second jumbo M&A financing of the year before US Congress agreed a bipartisan deal to raise the US debt ceiling and avert a sovereign default.

Issuers set to follow anticipated EU new issue with deals ahead of Federal Reserve’s next meeting