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K-shaped economy looms over consumer ABS market
Loan margins and spreads have been bid down, even as warning signs rise on asset quality
Critics doubted the EU Green Bond Standard would catch on, but it is gaining new issuers and a following from investors
EDF finds demand for green nuclear power bond
◆ Longer tranches earmarked for Hinkley Point C financing ◆ Books close at just under €11bn ◆ Single digit concessions offered
Iberdrola powers up second EuGB hybrid
◆ Deal is the fourth EuGB labelled hybrid ◆ Issuer punches through fair value... ◆ ...and gets its tightest senior/sub spread
Critics doubted the EU Green Bond Standard would catch on, but it is gaining new issuers and a following from investors
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Company retains same roster of banks that provided last loan
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With Latin America bond issuance smashing through its previous record, market participants think the peak has passed. A market tipped to turn tougher is the reason, which will make 2026 a year when issuers and bankers will have to earn every basis point, writes George Collard, with volumes expected to stay high
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Falling interest rates, returning inflows and a wave of pandemic-era redemptions mean CEEMEA bond market participants have high expectations for 2026. This optimism comes after a record-breaking year for issuance — and by quite some margin — meaning that 2025 will be a tough act to follow, writes George Collard
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A booming 2025 investment grade corporate bond market in Europe set a high bar as investors brace to pay higher premiums and shift to the belly of the curve in 2026. Meanwhile, capex, M&A and Reverse Yankees look set to keep the pipeline full, write Diana Bui and Frank Jackman
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The European FIG market rode through 2025 on high demand for credit, providing bank issuers, large and small, with extremely advantageous funding conditions. Although investors have also benefitted from strong secondary market performance, as Atanas Dinov reports, that equilibrium may change in 2026, with anticipation mounting that spreads will widen
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Demand to invest in the low carbon transition is growing fast, but strategies are very diverse
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Questions hang over the future of software as a service firms
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Shipbuilder's shares fall 10% after capital raise
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◆ Energy pair bring three tranches ◆ Sub-100bp senior/hybrid spreads secured ◆ Single digit concessions offered
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Founder of climate investing think tank wants to apply ideas as bond investor
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When loans' LTVs hit 80%, Bitcoin stakes are liquidated in seconds
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Investment bank, like the group, wants to diversify outside France, and will lead with its strongest suit, real assets
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Investors are rewarding Romania for trying to fix its fiscal problems
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Swiss power company issues only five and seven year floaters
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Commerzbank arranges $1.1bn deal for supply of vital raw materials
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Issuance net of buy-backs is not that high, and there is no sign of any indigestion
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Ivory Coast squeezed tight, taking $1.3bn in an 'aggressive' execution
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News could lead bank funding to dry up, after strong run of demand in private market
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Former US undersecretary for international trade expects more stockpiling
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'Important to distinguish between a systemic industry issue and a specific operational challenge' says trade body
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Abbott Laboratories plundered $20bn as it led a trio of drug companies which printed jumbo bonds as a deluge of supply in the dollar market ensured a red-hot end to the month.
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Eight banks provided loan facility to company
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Vaccine bond programme to issue $1.5bn this year but needs new pledges
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Sponsored by Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
Sukuk market’s next chapter: Financing the future, sustainably
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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
