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  • MTN bankers are tipping Formosa and senior non-preferred debt for big things in 2020. Both markets, along with MTNs as a whole, have had an underwhelming year as issuance failed to live up to the promise of a busy 2018.
  • Deutsche Bank has been mandated on Alpha Bank’s ‘Project Galaxy’ NPL sale, likely to be the first to use Greece’s new non-performing loan guarantee scheme known as ‘Hercules’. Like its compatriot Eurobank, the sale will include the spin-off of an NPL management division as well as the loan exposures themselves.
  • The way that financial and economic news is reported is a better guide to variance in global equity returns than VIX, the CBOE Volatility Index, according to research by the International Monetary Fund.
  • The shine from last week’s Conservative Party win in the UK general election has worn off in the UK Gilts market, due, in part, to fears that the country may crash out the European Union without a trade deal in place.
  • Equity capital markets are fully firing again at the end of 2019, after a stressful year, but bankers hoping for a more fruitful 2020 are acutely conscious that most of their hopes are riding on the second quarter window, and that an ugly trinity of political risks is threatening the market. Sam Kerr reports.
  • The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued no action relief for market participants’ transition from swaps referencing Libor to alternative reference rates.
  • Europe will probably see an increase in rates of corporate defaults in 2020 as credit quality deteriorates. Moody’s expects the rate of defaulting junk-rated issuers to triple, pushing the figure above the long-term average after an extraordinarily quiet year.
  • Equity-linked bond investors were left hurting again this week after bonds and shares in NMC Healthcare, the London-listed Emirati private healthcare business, were hit by accusations of fraud by short seller Muddy Waters. This is another painful episode for the convertible bond market after its troubles with Wirecard earlier in 2019, and an earlier scandal at Steinhoff International.
  • As many as 15 to 20 UK local authorities are considering come to the US private placement market in the first half of 2020, according to three investors, after the UK Treasury decided in October to raise the cost it charges councils to borrow from the central government.
  • This year GlobalCapital has reported extensively on the various debt capital markets technology platforms being developed by both the public and private sectors. But which will come out on top? We should get an answer in 2020.
  • Lenovo Group, one of the world’s largest computer and electronics makers, lost a long time financing partner when IBM decided to close its factoring operation for hardware equipment manufacturers in February, GlobalCapital can reveal. But Lenovo moved fast to replace this with one of the largest trade receivables securitizations ever signed. The $3bn deal included selling junior notes to three investors to maintain full off balance sheet treatment for the assets and debt.
  • NN Investment Partners appoints head of alternative credit — Bothamley and McNelis take up DCM reins at HSBC — RenCap picks private clients boss