Standard Chartered

◆ Favourable dollar market draws foreign and domestic FIG issuers ◆ NatWest chooses dollar for AT1 to achieve best post-swap cost ◆ String of senior issuance also offers rare five year FRN

Deal will be secured against a pool of Singaporean residential mortgages

Ex-banker joins trading platform as demand for digitisation grows

Little is being done to protect society from climate change’s worsening effects

Bill Winters has one chance left to secure his legacy as Standard Chartered CEO. The exit of Simon Cooper is just the beginning

Head of capital issuance, Richard Staff, and global head of bond syndicate, Hussain Zaidi, speak to GlobalCapital

◆ Eight foreign banks raise more than $18bn in three days as BMO adds another $1bn to multiple perps ◆ M&A funding also boosts February FIG volume to over $50bn ◆ Slow down felt by Thursday as spreads widen

◆ Standard Chartered eyes investor appetite for European banks in dollar AT1 ◆ NatWest plans a dollar tier two issue

Both transactions priced flat to fair value or tighter

Pair of loans with support from Bpifrance, AfDB and IsDB offer two ways to raise capital

Singapore’s ST Telemedia Global Data Centres last week issued a rare instrument: a sustainability-linked hybrid capital bond. Nelson Lim, the company’s CFO, explains why

◆ European banks lead issuance with focus on senior funding ◆ Market wobbles prove funding more challenging than expected ◆ Foreign banks’ capital raising is one prominent feature