Nat Rothschild, the UK financier who is part of the Rothschild banking family, dubbed Lazard, his family’s longstanding investment banking rival, a “bucket shop” in an effort to dissuade Peter Mandelson from joining that firm in early 2011 after he left the UK government the previous year.

This year’s sharp rotation in global stock markets is encouraging more investors to pile into dispersion trades, a complex breed of derivatives that profit from share prices heading in different directions.

In early January Alex McWhorter had an almost impossible annual assignment for a country chief of a major bank: he had to decide which 50% of his male staff he could protect from being called up for military service, and which he would have to make available to potentially go off to fight in a war.

India has unveiled two major sets of reforms to broaden onshore and offshore financing options for domestic corporates, and at the same time open the market to more lenders and investors.

After nine months on the sidelines, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg returned to the euro covered bond market on Monday with a €500m eight-year public sector Pfandbrief that was more than twice subscribed.

French satellite company Eutelsat has launched a refinancing-related dual-tranche bond transaction, at a time when views of European operators in the sector have become more favourable due to factors including more government support. 

Bpifrance successfully sold its first bond that complies with the European Green Bond Standard on Monday, ahead of benchmark offerings from larger SSA peers.

Supply in the corporate investment-grade euro market is expected to pick up this week, after a relatively quiet few weeks with many issuers in earning blackouts.

Columbus Capital was the only RMBS issuer in town as it raised a record-busting A$2.7bn (US$1.91bn) from the prime Columbus Capital Triton Bond Trust 2026-1 on February 20.

The US structured finance market welcomed a flurry of ABS deals during this past holiday-shortened week, including securitisations of leases and loans backed by auto, equipment, data centre and crypto assets priced. 

Lloyds Bank began marketing Candide Financing 2026-1 on Friday morning, the second Dutch prime RMBS this year, in the wake of strong demand for ING’s deal earlier this month. 

Hyundai’s fourth German auto ABS achieved good support which reinforced positive momentum in the primary market and set a constructive tone for further European auto-backed issuance expected over the coming weeks.

Bank of the Philippine Islands is committed to expanding its labelled ESG bond issuance in the local market, while considering a public US dollar bond later in the year to address upcoming maturities, executives said in an interview.

Weeks after its highly successful return to conventional bond markets , Ecuador has inaugurated a groundbreaking new sovereign housing finance framework with a US$500m loan.

The UK has met leading institutional investors ahead of issuing its first green Gilt with potential nuclear use of proceeds.

US investment bank Jefferies is doubling down on its thesis that the "glory days of sustainability" are here with new data points to support the argument that the US investment bank first advanced in October. 

Generate Biomedicines is seeking to raise up to US$425m from a Nasdaq IPO to fully fund two Phase III trials targeting a severe form of asthma, as well as earlier-stage trials on other drugs.

The Ugandan government is backing the KSh106.3bn (US$820m) IPO of Kenya Pipeline Company, which last week extended bookbuilding to Tuesday.

Bangkok-listed Minor International is working with Citigroup and DBS on a Singapore Exchange real estate investment trust IPO of up to S$700m (US$553m) in the second half of this year, people with knowledge of the transaction said.

Hospital operator Sunway Healthcare Holdings plans to open books for an up to US$800m Bursa Malaysia IPO later this week, people with knowledge of the transaction said. 

Toy maker Hasbro has entered into a US$1.1bn five-year revolving credit facility.

Investment-grade term loan issuance in January surged with corporates demonstrating their appetite for dealmaking as the second administration under president Donald Trump enters its sophomore year.

Warner Bros Discovery, the media conglomerate at the heart of a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount Skydance, has extended the maturity date of a bridge loan put in place last year to support its initial spinoff plan.

The repo market is the heartbeat of bond markets. Like a real heartbeat, when all is well, there is nothing more boring. But when things go wrong … watch out.

The AI boom has been backed by investor enthusiasm – and their money – on an unprecedented scale. Investment bankers have high hopes of a huge year for deals. But just like the broader economy, will this be a K-shaped market for tech deals?

How stable is a stablecoin? That is a question that S&P attempts to answer via its Global Ratings’ Stablecoin Stability Assessment, a product designed to quantify a stablecoin’s ability to maintain its peg to a fiat currency. It produces a score from 1, very strong, to 5, weak.

A quick glance at investment bank share prices over the past year tells a story: business is booming and the outlook is rosy. The question now, in the middle of reporting and bonus season, is how much of the profits will bank bosses have to give away to their staff.