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Turkish bond prices remain unmoved as investors sit pat on latest rates indications

UK coverage banker Aamir Khan has also worked at Lazard in the past

Moody’s bumps up the bank’s debt rating for the second time this year

The course of what is expected to be a furiously busy SSA bond market next quarter will be dictated in a few days

Market participants tried desperately to put Covid-19 behind them in 2021, but another year was defined by the pandemic. Though vaccination programmes reduced the number of national lockdowns, the resulting economic rebound brought with it a new and scary risk: the prospect that central banks could start shrinking, rather than expanding, their balance sheets. Fears over the delayed impact of the coronavirus carnage triggered more frequent bouts of volatility in international markets, which became increasingly violent as the year rolled on. In such a tricky year of transition, GlobalCapital wanted to reward those bond deals that achieved standout results for FIG issuers — in terms of pricing, innovation, execution, and timing. The winners are presented here

Private credit funds in Europe are increasingly sizing up larger companies that would have otherwise been candidates for the high yield and leveraged loan markets. The challenge for the private debt market, reports Silas Brown, will be whether it can keep its discipline during its sharp rise

Few would have expected that, as Europe staggered out of a pandemic, its equity capital market would be roaring hotter than at any point since 2007. But so it was for European IPOs in 2021. Plenty more firms want to float, so 2022 could be just as active. But as Victoria Thiele reports, participants know that it only takes a little volatility — triggered by the emergence of a new Covid variant — or a few failed deals to spoil the party

The European securitization market is on course to break issuance records in 2022, as it comes to the end of one of its best years since the global financial crisis. Bill Thornhill reports

Money poured into corporate investment grade bond funds in 2021, while many sectors were still coming out of lockdowns. Supply/demand dynamics were heavily in favour of borrowers. The deals below were outstanding for their ability to push the limits and take advantage of the favourable conditions

US banks continue to rule the roost in LatAm DCM, but some say league tables don’t tell the full story. Olly West reports

All strands of sustainable finance are booming. Use of proceeds and target-linked structures are invading ever more areas of debt markets, and even becoming the norm. There is much more to conquer — but as Jon Hay reports, the real battle is to help investors know an ambitious transition from an inadequate one

A GlobalCapital survey of senior bond syndicate bankers working across Europe’s high grade corporate bond market points to a sharp turnaround in issuance volumes in 2022, but that volatility in rates will mean it will be a tricky year for companies and their bankers, who will need to be agile if they are to get the most out of an increasingly hostile and choppy market.