© 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

SRI

Top section

Top section

Heathrow lands in Swiss francs, Austria extends green curve

International borrowers dominate this week's flow in the currency
Gulf AT1 deluge will be a challenge, with or without drone strikes

Easing won't be easy for new Fed boss

Lower rates will need lower inflation — and an FOMC consensus

CLOs prop up loan prices, betting on short Iran war

Leveraged loan prices have rallied from their post-war dip, with CLO demand remaining strong despite subdued LBO activity
Gulf AT1 deluge will be a challenge, with or without drone strikes
Sub-sections
  • Asian bonds showed some signs of life mid-week after markets collapsed on Monday. But that reprieve proved to be extremely short-lived, as another round of panic selling on Thursday left issuers with little choice but to put their deals on hold. Morgan Davis and Addison Gong report.
  • Spreads on bank bonds were sent shooting wider again on Thursday, caught up in further negative news around the Covid-19. But market participants are still unsure about how much of impact the pandemic will have on bank credit quality, with the sector already facing pressures over profitability.
  • Members of the European Banking Federation have called on supervisory authorities for help through the ‘temporary struggle’ of the Covid-19 pandemic, asking them for looser capital and liquidity requirements and special treatment of lending impacted by the virus.