United States
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The US investment banking market is the largest and most lucrative in the world, and the most tightly locked down in the hands of domestic firms. But vaulting up the league tables, of late, has been Mizuho — hoping to break down Japanese bank stereotypes in the process.
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Hanesbrands, the North Carolina clothing maker, printed a €500m bond on Thursday to fund recent acquisitions in Italy and Australia. -
Axoni, a New York based start up firm specialising in distributed ledger infrastructure for capital markets and derivatives, has hired a former Citadel executive as its chief operating officer.
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HSBC has begun offering a clearing collateral service for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives to help clients comply with G20 swap reforms.
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Debt capital market bankers have long preached that diversifying into the US investor base is the next stage of development for Chinese issuers. But with recent transactions failing to resonate with stateside accounts, Chinese names should give up on US investors for now.
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OpenDoor Trading, a trading platform that aims to improve liquidity in off-the-run US treasuries and treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS), has hired an experienced capital markets strategist to a senior position.
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CME Group is adding to its base metals business with an aluminium alloy futures contract.
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European-listed exchange traded funds had their busiest month ever on Tradeweb in April, the marketplace firm said.
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Post-crisis regulation, funding pressures and liquidity demands are leading investors to favour derivative products over underlying assets in novel ways, said analysts.
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Deutsche Bank returned to the dollar market with its biggest-ever deal in the currency as it exploited favourable funding conditions.
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The geographical spread of US private placement issuance has been shaken up in 2016, according to two USPP bankers based in London.
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Corporate issuers led a dollar stampede to complete one of the busiest weeks of the year for US high grade issuance, with more to come as Dell prepares to announce a $16bn M&A financing as early as Monday.
