Goldman Sachs reported a record quarter in equities trading in the first quarter, driven by its best quarter in equities financing ever. It also reported a 48% jump in investment banking revenue in the quarter, but warned the dealmaking boom may be cracking as its fees backlog dipped and geopolitics became more complex.

US advisory firm Perella Weinberg Partners is buying UK advisory boutique Gleacher Shacklock to ramp up its presence in Europe. 

ABN AMRO could be an acquisition target now that the Dutch state's shareholding has fallen below 25%, analysts at ING suggest.

Hong Kong has granted its first stablecoin issuer licences to a Standard Chartered joint venture and an HSBC Holdings subsidiary, effective immediately. 

The start of earning blackouts means niche issuers are taking centre stage in a euro corporate market that is chugging ahead slowly.

SpareBank 1 Sor-Norge attracted colossal demand on Monday as it visited the euro market for the first time since May 2024 with a €500m six-year non-call five green senior non-preferred trade that was more than five times subscribed.

Golden Goose has finally begun marketing the high-yield notes backing its LBO led by private equity firm HongShan Capital Group, a deal first flagged in January.

Only Kommunalbanken grasped Monday's SSA syndication window following the now expected delivery of fresh geopolitical drama over the weekend.

European securitisation markets are showing early signs of a post-Easter revival, with a debut transaction from Advanzia Bank reopening primary markets, market participants said. =

KKR hit the commercial mortgage-backed security market last week to refinance an office tower in San Francisco that was once the headquarters for Dropbox, which has vacated the premises and been replaced by a roster of other corporate tenants.

The European Banking Authority said in a Q&A posted on its website that a credit rating can only be used to calculate regulatory risk weights if it is publicly disclosed, clarifying an issue debated by market practitioners. 

ClearLight on Monday landed its first solar securitisation in what has been a slow start to the year in this corner of the ABS market. 

South Africa’s FirstRand Group has leapfrogged multilateral development and commercial banks by becoming the first market player to replicate the World Bank’s outcome bond structure .

Sustainable finance will play a central role in raising hundreds of billions of pounds of private capital over the next decade to fund the UK government's ambitious growth and infrastructure plans and help meet its net-zero targets. 

Global tech hyperscalers are exploring voluntary nature and biodiversity credits in the UK and Europe to offset the environmental impact of data centres, as well as mandatory credits to meet the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain regulation. 

The World Bank has stepped up its revived programme of Italian retail investor-targeted borrowing with its debut transaction through UniCredit. The Triple A rated development lender, which sourced lightly structured deals as large as US$668m and US$397m in the country during the 2010s, passing US$1bn in 2016 alone, issued €21.386m of fixed-rate callable notes through the Italian/German bank.

Shenzhen and Hong Kong-listed Contemporary Amperex Technology is considering an offering of shares in Hong Kong which could raise around US$5bn, after a strong run-up in its share price, said people with knowledge of the matter.

The books were covered for Shenzhen-listed Victory Giant Technology (HuiZhou)'s Hong Kong listing of up to HK$17.5bn (US$2.2bn) on the first day of bookbuilding on Monday, said people with knowledge of the matter. 

India's Shapoorji Pallonji Group has reiterated a call to list Tata Sons, in which it holds an 18.37% stake. 

ECM bankers are rushing to seize the window created by the initial two-week ceasefire agreement between the US, Israel and Iran, bringing deals last week that totalled US$3.2bn.

The prospect of a windfall in leveraged loan issuance tied to leveraged buyouts has failed to materialise as the US war with Iran drags on, injecting fresh volatility into credit markets and dampening risk appetite for new deals.

Direct lenders are preparing to gather for an annual private credit conference at a critical moment for the industry, as retail investors seek to pull large sums of capital from the asset class and some fund managers cap share redemptions.

Paramount Skydance signed US$10bn of loans to back its US$110bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. The move establishes more permanent loan support than the US$57.5bn of debt the company secured in December, and has resulted in the bridge loan’s size being cut to US$49bn from its original US$54bn. 

US investment-grade loan issuance surged to a record start to the year, but bankers are bracing for a slowdown in large-scale M&A as macro uncertainty clouds corporate confidence. 

Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser manages a team of rivals who might aspire to her job. Competition is healthy but appointing a new president as a deputy could help Fraser deliver the next phase of her growth plan.

It is unusual for a listed company to buy income-bearing securities of a peer as a treasury decision. In orthodox corporate finance, surplus capital is meant to do one of three things: fund projects that clear the hurdle rate, preserve liquidity, or be returned to shareholders. It is not normally redeployed into another company exposed to much the same trade, especially at a lower yield than the investing company pays on its own stock.

Private credit mishaps are coming at us with such speed and intensity that many of the stories are blurring into one. But rather than the private credit crisis dragging banks down, it might give them an opportunity to play offensively in this space.

The easiest way to hide a credit loss is not to deny it. It is to say it has not yet arrived. That was one of the quiet accounting failures exposed by the global financial crisis: losses were often recognised too late, only after the damage was obvious. IFRS 9 was supposed to fix that by forcing lenders to book expected credit losses earlier, using forward-looking judgment rather than waiting for the wreckage.