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

A wave of mergers and acquisitions is on the way, driven by the rise in awareness of climate change, bankers believe. But there will be no easy options for companies trying to reshape their businesses for the low carbon transition, and the process will create winners and losers.

Retroactive commercial property owned clean energy (C-PACE) transactions gained traction through the pandemic, with building owners tapping C-PACE to get cash out of their properties and opportunistic investors taking money out of existing deals to redeploy capital at higher returns. This dynamic is expected to continue throughout the year, said panelists at IMN’s Solar & PACE Investing conference.

Solar energy providers have quickly upgraded their offerings from solar panels to batteries, bringing down the costs of both products for consumers. Solar providers say the next growth area is sustainable home improvements, ranging from resilient roofing to efficient heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, meaning more loans available to fund through solar ABS, panelists said at IMN’s Solar and PACE Investing conference.

hGears, the German maker of precision gears for e-mobility, kept its head above water in trading on Friday after the company’s €173m IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, against extremely difficult market conditions.

Severn Trent, the UK water company, is raising £250m of equity capital to fund green projects. Banks working on the deal quickly attracted enough demand to cover the transaction.

A landmark in global energy policy was reached on Tuesday when the International Energy Agency published its Net Zero by 2050 model, its first detailed attempt to set out how the energy industry could transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

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