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Estonia's Coop Pank enters securitization market with €249m SRT
First exclusively Estonian securitization the European Investment Bank has supported
The sovereign, supranational and agency bond market in 2025 featured a number of innovative debuts, bringing new issuers to this most venerable of asset classes. Meanwhile, some of its biggest names priced stellar deals, breaking records and pioneering new formats even in volatile markets
Bond Deals of the Year: Investment grade corporates — Corporate issuers go hyperscale
Investment grade companies demonstrated just how much liquidity was sloshing around in the euro, dollar, sterling and Swiss franc markets with a string of large deals. But these bonds did not just stand out for the amount issued. Rather, they showed that there is not always a trade-off to be made between size and price
Bond Deals of the Year: Financial institutions — FIG issuers find new ways into old markets
With a relentless flow of cash into credit markets this year, almost every borrower could be said to have done well. But some issuers stood out for their ability to establish new footholds in certain markets that have since paved the way for peers
The sovereign, supranational and agency bond market in 2025 featured a number of innovative debuts, bringing new issuers to this most venerable of asset classes. Meanwhile, some of its biggest names priced stellar deals, breaking records and pioneering new formats even in volatile markets
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Aroundtown and Toyota tap private markets as public supply winds down
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Funding head Ruud Jaegers on pioneering green bonds, pricing dynamics of EuGBs and heavier focus on senior preferred issuance
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◆ Simplification plans boggle banking boffins ◆ Hungry, hungry hyperscalers to push utilities into bond market ◆ A loan in the sand: private credit jostles for place in Middle East debt markets
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Big data energy needs set to help drive utility issuance higher next year
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Best deals, banks, investors, advisers, law firms and tech providers of 2025
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William Hill, the UK bookmaker, has raised £224m to pursue growth opportunities ahead of the restarting of sporting events such as the Premier League.
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Campaigners for equality for lesbian, gay and transgender people in the US hailed a historic victory on Monday, when the Supreme Court for the first time made it illegal throughout the country for employers to discriminate against staff on grounds of sexual or gender orientation.
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A third of the top 50 corporate bond issuers are among companies that investors have named and shamed for not disclosing adequately through the CDP reporting platform about the environmental risks they face as bondholders grow more engaged alongside shareholders in pushing for this information.
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The green bond market lets investors scrutinise the way issuers use their money, promoting good behaviour. Now, the focus is turning to the middle men: the banks. It is a welcome iteration, given their importance in financing either a green or brown future, but we must push them further.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched the first systematic process by an issuer to formally integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into choosing its bookrunners. Senior funding officials and sustainability bankers have welcomed the initiative as an important evolution in the use of ESG in capital markets, write Burhan Khadbai and Jon Hay.
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HSBC and Standard Chartered are facing a backlash from investors and politicians after publicly supporting China’s planned security law for Hong Kong.
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Debt financing to become more sophisticated as the race to build data centres across Europe heats up
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JP Morgan sole bookrunner on first jumbo block in a month
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This week Tom Hall and Thomas Hopkins discuss how Enpal's return heated up the ABS market and take the CLO equity market's temperature
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Company's relationship banks provided the funding
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UK chancellor got the big things right in the Budget but made damaging unforced errors
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Emerging markets are particularly vulnerable to protests led by disgruntled youth
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December is a strange time to be in the capital markets. Embrace it
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This week a managing director deals with the awkwardness of their boss finding out they had been in contention for a job at another firm
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Serverfarm said to have put up $20m to get data center deal over the line
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First deal of its kind more than 1.5 times subscribed
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Deal complexity, new issuer premium sees trade start more than 100bp wide of last WBS
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Gym franchise wants to refinance paper issued in 2022
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Sponsored by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
CAF gearing up to transform regional development
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Sponsored by Emirates NBD Capital
Emirates NBD Capital: An unrivalled conduit for Middle East liquidity
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