The GlobalCapital Podcast

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  Record temperatures, record bonuses 14.08.2026 51mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Have capital markets comprehended the heatwave? ◆ Which SSA issuers need to get it done this autumn ◆ Halcyon days for MTN, M&A and ECM bankers Heatwaves and wildfires are dominating the news but the capital markets seem barely to have noticed. We discuss how the bond and securitization markets are thinking about the risks of global warming, whether they are worrying about it enough and whether anyone has figured out yet who will fund cliamte adaptation, res...
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  All eyes on the hyperscalers 11.08.2026 50mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Europe's corporate bond market braces for US tech issuance surge ◆ Canada makes move for EU regs equivalence but to what end? ◆ Middle East private placements here to stay... but will take up less room Europe's corporate bond market is fretting over increased bond issuance from hyperscalers in the autumn. These US tech giants, when they come to the market, come big. And with their spreads having widened lately, more storied issuers in the market are worried that...
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  Another ABF lender collapses, development banks max out private placements 31.07.2026 55mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ The collapse of another specialist lender hits asset-backed lending but why it's different this time ◆ MDBs ramp up private funding ◆ No greenium but European banks happy to print more ESG labelled debt Barely six months after the controversial collapse of Market Financial Solutions, another UK specialist lender has tumbled. The failure of Amplifi is another blow to the banks and other institutions that fund the specialist lenders through asset-backed finance.&n...
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  The bully of the curve 24.07.2026 34mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Oil trumps politics ◆ Kuwait scores late winner ◆ How to save Thames Water harmlessly The three month euro/dollar basis swap was traditionally called the bully of the curve because it controlled the rest, but there is no doubt who’s the boss now — dirty old oil. As the US and Iran traded blows, Houthi threats to close the Gulf of Aden made oil traders freak out this week. Their alarm seized bond markets globally, pushing French and German yields to decade highs and Tr...
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  The meaning of a basis point 17.07.2026 48mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Greenium reappears in unlikely place ◆ US banks splash out ◆ Is that all I’m worth? ◆ Cantor is coming A basis point might always be the same quantity, but is it a lot or a little? It depends whom you ask, and when. For supranational, sovereign and agency bond issuers in the dollar market, 1.7bp over Treasuries and 1.9bp over are two different things. Records keep falling as SSAs price ever closer to Treasuries. Last week the International Finance Corp got to 1.7bp — and it...
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  Banks beefing up buy-backs as sterling market anticipates bright future 03.07.2026 33mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Clean-up calls set to change how banks manage senior debt ◆ The Bank of England's SSA bond booster ◆ What is behind booming corporate bond issuance in sterling A lot of expensive bank bonds, issued when rates and inflation were high and spreads wide, have call dates coming up, meaning issuers will be keen to replace them with cheaper debt at current market prices. To do so, they may completely change how they deal with investors when they do buy-backs. Man...
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  Brewing a bromance between Burnham and bonds 26.06.2026 52mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ How UK's likely next PM can woo the bond market ◆ Fibre ABS coming to Europe ◆ The rise of the corporate Kangaroo Andy Burnham looks set to become the next UK prime minister, following the resignation of Keir Starmer on Monday. But how will the new man in 10 Downing Street get along with the bond market? One of his predecessors, Liz Truss, managed fixed income relations so badly, it cost her her job and made her term the shortest in the history of the office. Th...
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  The waiting games: ME issuance, digital capital markets and French covered bonds 19.06.2026 49mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Iran peace deal in sight but where are the Middle East issuers? ◆ Why primary capital markets will be slow adopters of DLT ◆ Why French covered bond issuance has slowed and why it might pick up The Iran war has kept the Middle East's bond issuers largely at bay but with the path to peace now clearer, issuance conditions have improved. But even this might not be enough to tempt borrowers back to the primary bond market en masse. We discover why. We also analyse a...
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  The ESN has landed 12.06.2026 1j 3mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ What now for European Secured Notes ater long-awaited debut? ◆ The mood in European securitization amid MFS fallout and reg reform ◆ Digitalisation of bond market is up to the regulators Bpifrance achieved a world first this week, pricing the inaugural European Secured Note. The deal was a success but it has taken about a decade to get the product from concept to market. The question is now where next for ESNs? This twist on a covered bond has clear applications...
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  Two comebacks and a pull-back: credit card ABS, insurance tier two and SSA bonds 05.06.2026 28mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Credit card ABS grows as securitization sets off for Barcelona ◆ What can scupper insurance tier two spree ◆ SSAs appear unwilling to test Treasury spread record A deal from Vanquis Bank, a securitization of credit card receivables, is the latest deal in a revival of an asset class that has been morinund since the 2008 financial crisis. We examine why this market is making a comeback now and what makes it different this time. We also discuss our sister pod...
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  Par from the Maduro crowd? 29.05.2026 43mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Venezuela embarks on historic debt restructuring ◆ Canada suggests covered bond boost ◆ European Secured Notes are here. Regulate them Venezuela's debt restructuring is getting underway, nine years after the country defaulted and just months after the US removed its former president, Nicolas Maduro. The amount of debt involved is expected to be huge but no one outside of Venezuela knows quite how much. That's not the only unusual thing about the exercise. ...
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  SSAs and US Treasuries: crossing the final frontier 22.05.2026 52mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure Bond issuance from supranational and agency issuers is rampant. And not only are volumes high but the bonds are flying too, attracting large order books, being priced with little if any issue premium and then performing in the secondary market. There h...
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  Starmer, strife and sterling bonds 15.05.2026 42mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ The prospects for sterling bond issuance amid UK political upheaval ◆ A new issuer and a new securitization from the SSA sector ◆ Ontario's plans for a resilience bond The mice turned on the cat in UK politics this week, causing volatility in the bond market and a headache for issuers of sterling bonds. Prime minister Keir Starmer is under fire from Labour Party colleagues and faces a challenge to his leadership following a grim set of local election results. Un...
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  Justice for covered bonds (and securitization) 08.05.2026 38mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ EU regs plan sparks debate over treatment of secured borrowing ◆ Blistering corporate and FIG issuance but why are premiums rising in one market but not the other? ◆ UK Renters' Rights Act to impact UK buy-to-let RMBS market Plans to change the capital risk-weightings banks must apply to some of their securitization holidings caused consternation in the covered bond market this week. Both securitization and covered bonds are forms of debt secured on a pool of as...
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  The outbreak of Warsh 01.05.2026 41mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Powell Fed era ends with split decision ◆ Bank capital to lead Gulf bond revival ◆ SSAs, corporates and FIG face busy May President Trump appointed Jay Powell as Federal Reserve chair — then hounded him continually to ease monetary policy and ended up launching a criminal investigation against him. What could possibly go wrong for Kevin Warsh? The central question for markets is whether he will have an independent mind or be Trump’s puppet. So far, Warsh is getting th...
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  The fast and the dubious 24.04.2026 37mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Fast money reverses out of SSA bond market ◆ CLO managers face risky ramp startegy ◆ Corporate hybrid bond market runs hot despite volatility The rise of hedge funds as dedicated investors in the supranational and agency bond market was one of the biggest changes in that sector at the start of the year. But now they are pulling back from new issue syndications. We examine why market volatility resulting from the Iran war has sounded the retreat and also assess t...
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  What it takes to break issuance records in volatile markets 17.04.2026 42mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Dazzling feats of issuance in public sector bond market but signs of wariness persist ◆ How banks have derisked May issuance ◆ Corporate bond investors stick around So many bond issuance records tumbled in a busy week in the primary market that to some it felt like we were back in January. That is typically the busiest month of the year and the 2026 edition was particularly successful for issuers. But scratch beneath the surface and it was clear that issuers wer...
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  How bond issuers will take advantage of Iran ceasefire 10.04.2026 43mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Gulf issuers turn to private markets ◆ Public sector and corporate borrowers to bring forward plans ◆ Banks re-enter covered and unsecured funding markets US vice-president JD Vance set off on Friday for Pakistan (pictured) for peace talks to end the war with Iran. The talks are part of a two-week ceasefire, announced on Tuesday, that rejuvenated the primary bond market. We spent much of this week's podcast discussing how public sector issuers, banks and investm...
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  The Gulf’s banks get ready for recession 03.04.2026 35mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Middle East capital securities will need to be refinanced ◆ Supranationals, agencies and municipalities have had a good war ◆ New ideas to promote covered bonds The central group of bond issuers in the Middle East are the banks. They are well capitalised, with clean balance sheets and often high credit ratings. But none has come to the market since the war began at the end of February. With fighting raging and a recession predicted, banks’ secondary spreads have widened, es...
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  News from the frontier: Africa leads emerging market bond revival 27.03.2026 47mnt

  Send us Fan Mail ◆ Outsiders open EM investors’ wallets ◆ European banks let their hair down in dollar market, still shy in euros ◆ Digital innovation in Frankfurt with DZ Bank Angola and African telecom company Helios Towers were hardly the issuers anyone expected to restart bond issuance from central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Middle East war stopped all sales for three weeks, and bankers were looking for a mainstream, investment grade issuer to reopen the market. B...