Nvidia's $25bn seven-tranche offering matched Meta’s issuance in late April which are only smaller than Amazon’s $37bn print from March

Bond market's leading performers recognised at GlobalCapital's annual awards ceremony

The Hong Kong dollar bond market is evolving beyond being one exclusively of private placements to one where public issuance of varying sizes and maturities is becoming more common. The greater frequency of public issuance is leading to more opportunities for investors and issuers alike. Sustaining this growth will require a bigger variety of asset classes, and more diversified local and international participation. GlobalCapital assembled a group of investors and issuers from across the bond market to discuss this burgeoning market and the progress they want to see from it in the future.

◆ Anglian Water finds attractive pricing in euros ◆ Iberdrola pays small NIP on dual tranche EuGB ◆ Statnett and EEW Energy bring single tranche green deals

PKO is the fourth Polish bank to debut in the tier two market in the last year

◆ Island region prices €500m sustainable 10 year ◆ Spread tightened 5bp from guidance after book grew ◆ Banker away from deal sees no congestion drag

Hybrid capital is open to the big US tech companies. But who needs an umbrella when the sun is shining?

The bank has been added to DNB's list of registered covered bond issuers

Issuance will be lower in June as yields rise

Amazon’s Swiss debut and Alphabet’s first yen deal jolted debt markets this week

Artificial intelligence is changing the investment banking game. But banks are divided on whether to cut costs or try and win more deals

The US bank is showing its global credentials at a time of increased transatlantic tensions but European banks are equal to the challenge

Bluefield Solar Income Fund, the London-listed investment trust focused on renewable energy assets, has tapped equity investors for £105.1m to repay debt and finance the acquisition of its first wind turbines.

Vilogia, a French social housing company, has shrugged off being downgraded by Moody’s and having its rating withdrawn by Fitch, printing a rare floating rate note that was driven by a reverse enquiry.

Insurers and reinsurers are expecting to take multi-billion euro losses as a result of the recent floods in core Europe. Firms could make record payouts, which are likely to drag on otherwise strong results in the first quarter.

In this round-up, China’s economic growth slows in the second quarter, Beijing launches the world’s largest carbon emission trading scheme, and the top market regulator approves Tencent Holdings’ plan to take US-listed search engine Sogou private.

Tony Hayward, the former boss of BP, is joining this year’s $117bn Spac IPO market by launching a new blank cheque company on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange that will focus on energy transition.

For all their espoused commitment to capitalism — a system in which outdated ideas are supposed to be allowed to perish when superseded by newer, better ways of doing things — there is a club of leaders at the top of investment banking that seems obstinately, sentimentally, and possibly even damagingly attached to the way things have always been done.

Investors were impressed with how the region's issuers have dealt with the crisis

Book coverage ratio was in the same area as Gulf banks' pre-Iran war euro issuance

Bankers eye Warsh's debut, private credit and stretched equity valuations

US drug company Eli Lilly jolted the dollar market awake on Wednesday with an eight-part jumbo trade to fund two recent acquisitions

The US dollar market buoyant this week despite escalating hostilities in the Middle East

Redwood will be a repeat issuer