© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

Search results for

Tip: Use operators exact match "", AND, OR to customise your search. You can use them separately or you can combine them to find specific content.
There are 371,298 results that match your search.371,298 results
  • A new wave of convergence plays swept through the non-core currency Eurobond markets in 2005, as investors piled into new currencies. As Matthew Attwood reports, the outstanding success stories were the Turkish lira and Mexican peso, which gave highly rated issuers new sources of attractive funding.
  • Austria's Erste Bank this week launched a Eu3bn rights issue — one of the largest equity deals ever seen in the country — to help fund its acquisition of Banca Comerciala Romana.
  • It was a difficult year for the European commercial paper market. Worried about rates, investors shifted money out of the market, and there was less issuance from cash-rich companies and German Landesbanks. But there were positives — new market participants and progress on the Step project. Sailaja Maganti reports.
  • Duration bid set to grow in 2006
  • Eurohypo successfully opened the jumbo Pfandbrief market this week, hitting the maximum Eu3bn size for its six year global mortgage Pfandbrief. Barclays Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, LBBW and new Eurohypo owner Com-merzbank priced the issue at mid-swaps flat on Wednesday after building an order book of Eu4bn.
  • The EuroMTN market had another bumper year in 2005. The retail investor base deepened, and in the structured note market new innovations came out weekly. Gavin Finch reports.
  • A year ago the prospect of an upturn in corporate bond issuance had bankers rubbing their hands. Although 2005 did not perform in terms of volume, 2006 carries all the promise of improvements. But bankers beware: the junking of GM and Ford and the increasing LBO and M&A activity has made corporate credit a more volatile market. Alistair Dawber reports.
  • Brian Lazell, formerly head of BNP Paribas' European high grade corporate debt capital markets business in London, is to resurface next week in his new job after he resigned from the French bank in early December. According to syndicate officials, the likelihood is that Lazell will join one of Russia's leading investment banks — with Renaissance Capital odds-on favourite to recruit the 25 year bond market veteran.
  • Rating: Ba3/BB-/BB-
  • Underwriters are predicting another abundant year for hybrid capital for financial institutions, but doubt that volume will outstrip 2005's records. Capacity constraints are expected to cap growth as banks and insurance companies rapidly fill their tier one and tier two baskets. Jo Richards reports.
  • Rating: A
  • KfW launched its first ever 15 year euro benchmark bond this week, and bankers are already describing the Eu5bn issue as a contender for deal of the year.