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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
Three new banks join facility, one drops out
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
Bond Deals of the Year: Public sector borrowers — Debuts and derring-do define SSAs
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
Three new banks join facility, one drops out
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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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2025's best deals, banks, investors, advisers and law firms
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◆ VW misses ESG deadline ◆ Good times for ABS ◆ CLO triple-A funds fear fall from power
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Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a fresh rally of defence stocks have boosted Renk's valuation hopes
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Car maker says green bonds show it is ‘on the right track’ but does not explain lack of ESG disclosure in ABS
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◆ Are lawsuits about funding polluters the next big risk for banks? ◆ Sub-Saharan Africa issuance returns... ◆ ... but will any follow Ivory Coast's lead?
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ING and BNP Paribas are already being sued, and more may follow
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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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