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The GlobalCapital Podcast

A weekly podcast from GlobalCapital, the capital markets news service based in London and New York, discussing its most interesting stories from around the world.Every Friday, listen to lively discussion about the very latest themes, the most innovative and important bond and equity issues and syndicated loans and much more from the capital markets.This podcast is for anyone working in - or who wants to work in - the capital markets from investment bankers, to funding and treasury officials,

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20:55

Hey EU! Grab this chance by the collar

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/06/17

Send us a text ◆ How can the EU capitalise on US mistakes? ◆ New US insurers head to euros ◆ The greenest of green The good and the great of Europe's capital markets gathered for the International Capital Market Association conference this month, and the overwhelming consensus among the speakers was that this was a rare chance for Europe to chip away at US bond market dominance. But it won't be easy, with myriad regulatory and idiosyncratic problems that can only come when 27 countries ...

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33:35

Could AI revive real intelligence in investment banking?

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2025/06/06

Send us a text ◆ How worrying is Section 899? ◆ A summer of toil for public sector issuers ◆ Seesawing curves in FIG The bland outpourings of ChatGPT could not be further from the penetrating, critical advice big companies, governments and investors want from investment banks. But could one foster the other? That is the ideal banks are striving for with a plethora of projects to use artificial intelligence — not for the hard stuff, they say, but for the easy stuff. Automating tiresome work l...

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45:55

The great rates conundrum

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2025/05/30

Send us a text ◆ EU’s securitization plan leaked ◆ The first new EM sovereign issuer for years ◆ Who can be sued for climate change? Interest rates coming down was supposed to be a sure bet. Now it’s not. Long government bond yields are rising, and not just in the US. Investors are worried — the term premium is climbing, which means it’s not enough now. It’s safest to stay away from duration. We try to diagnose this queasy market for high quality bonds. Are there any silver linings? MLex, a ...

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32:10

Orange and black is the new black swan

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2025/05/23

Send us a text ◆ Capital markets' Bloomberg scare ◆ SSAs tipped to go sub-US Treasuries ◆ Jumbos devour credit demand A blip in Bloomberg's terminal services this week delayed bookbuilding on a number of syndications and bond auctions. It passed with seemingly little harm done. But it did reveal how dependent bond issuance and fixed income has become on the company's platform. We asked what would be at stake if there was a longer outage and what can be done to prevent...

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34:29

EBRD meets as Romania faces crunch moment and corp...

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2025/05/16

Send us a text ◆ What happened at the EBRD's Annual Meetings ◆ Romania's new president and the fiscal fright that awaits him ◆ Investors distracted from FIG by US corporates GlobalCapital was on the ground at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Annual Meetings in London this week. We reveal what was discussed and decided, from the bank's capital situation and US involvement, to its support for Ukraine and beyond. Meanwhile, Romania goes to the polls this weekend...

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38:58

Relief as Trump administration gives hints on US MDB...

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2025/05/09

Send us a text ◆ US gives further clues on MDB support ◆ FIG issuers face funding choices ◆ What's the point of the EU green bond standard? We surveilled the SSA bond market this week and the development finance world to see what both made of US decisions about financial support for a number of international development funders. The result was relief but it was not unqualified, as we ponder what this may mean for US president Donald Trump's review into the country's involvement in...

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34:11

Sustainability-linked finance's next big test

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2025/05/02

Send us a text ◆ SLBs miss targets with hundreds more up for review ◆ US issuers make hay in European sunshine ◆ Banks probe longer dated debt issuance The wave of sustainability-linked bonds that were all the rage a few years ago are now reaching the point where their issuers' performance against their environmental KPIs is being judged. Two issuers this week have failed to meet their targets and will pay higher coupons as a result. We took the opportunity to see what impac...

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36:59

Development finance reacts to US MDB reform aims as...

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2025/04/25

Send us a text ◆ Insiders assess Scott Bessent's speech on MDB reform ◆ European Commission's latest attempt to ease capital market access ◆ Encouraging signs for credit issuers after tariff turmoil The US administration gave some clues as to its beliefs on how the IMF and the World Bank should change their operations for the first time this week since president Donald Trump signed an executive order in February asking for a review into the country's involvement in international f...

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35:44

Everyone has a capital markets strategy until they...

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2025/04/17

Send us a text ◆ Running a bond business in a crisis ◆ Bank issuers find their way back into the bond market ◆ Can frontier emerging market sovereigns fund themselves? This was supposed to be a decent year for banks in the debt and equity capital markets. But the uncertainty generated by a chaotic US tariff policy has wrecked investment banks' ability to plan and operate in their markets. We look at what is grinding the sell-side's gears and investigate how banks should navigate t...

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30:33

Flirting with financial crisis

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2025/04/11

Send us a text ◆ Did we come close to a full blown crisis before Trump's tariff climbdown? ◆ Will we face another in 90 days' time? ◆ UK regulator's astonishing covered bond ruling We looked this week into whether the US's decision to postpone the imposition of punishing tariffs by 90 days averted a financial crisis, or merely postponed it. The action in the US Treasury market was not good this week as investors and traders appeared to pile into cash rather than assets. Stock mar...

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31:39

On the tariff trail from the Rose Garden to Riyadh

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2025/04/04

Send us a text ◆ How US tariffs will affect bond issuers in the medium and long term ◆ Liberation Day: your funniest quotes ◆ A funding update from KfW's head of capital markets, Petra Wehlert US president Donald Trump's imposition of a vast swathe of tariffs on imports bludgeoned stock markets this week and proved the stuff of nightmares for investors as they contemplated the possibility of recession and the return of inflation. But the reality for the bond market will likely be rather...

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37:39

The bank using AI to find M&A deals

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2025/03/28

Send us a text ◆ Farewell, KommuneKredit ◆ Covered bonds advance on SSAs’ territory ◆ Ivory Coast makes funding breakthrough ◆ Romania’s risks Genuinely useful applications of AI are still rare in capital markets, but UniCredit has come up with an intriguing one. It has built a tool called DealSync that is helping it generate M&A mandates. The supranational, sovereign and agency bond market was shocked on Wednesday to learn that it would be losing a well known issuer, KommuneKredit. The ...

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43:09

UK plans digital debut as bond market digest EU...

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/03/21

Send us a text ◆ UK fires starting pistol on digital Gilts ◆ SSA market absorbs EU defence funding detail ◆ Credit issuers adjust tactics The UK has begun a consultation as it looks to issue its first digital Gilt - to be called a DiGit. We discuss what the bond will look like and the UK's route to issuance. Elsewhere in the SSA bond market, participants took stock of further detail on how the EU plans to fund its Security Action for Europe (SAFE) scheme. We examine the details and the bond m...

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32:44

Trump regime starts to grate on global markets

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/03/14

Send us a text ◆ DOGE threatens US CMBS recovery ◆ Drill, baby, drill? Borrow, habibi, borrow ◆ Cracks appear in European credit market Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the office... or rather back into commercial mortgage backed securities with offices as the collateral. No sooner has the US CMBS revival begun than US president Donald Trump's administration threatens to ruin it. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spearheaded by Elon Musk is ripping up...

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21:56

Putting numbers on the defence borrowing hole

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/03/07

Send us a text ◆ EU puts forward €800bn plan◆ Germany screeches into U-turn on debt brake ◆ Bund yield soars 40bp The spectre of European countries needing to massively increase spending on defence has haunted the capital markets ever since it became clear that US president Donald Trump was really thinking of drastically weakening US military support to Europe. It had already triggered a sell-off in European government bonds. But this week a vague expectation got some concrete numbers....

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43:53

A new bond issuer to bolster European defence

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/03/03

Send us a text ◆ Rob Murray, the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank's creator, explains all ◆ Why US must be involved ◆ Three point strategy to augment defence spending The idea of a new multilateral bank to help fund defence spending in Europe has shifted to the fore in recent weeks. European leaders are understood to be discussing the idea this week and a plan for one could be announced soon. Rob Murray, a former British army officer, is the person who first came up with an idea ...

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51:29

Germany: the sick, ageing but 'comfortable' man of...

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2025/02/28

Send us a text ◆ German and European spending needs rile SSA market ◆ GSE reform in the US, green reform in the EU ◆ Saudi Arabia leads Gulf diversification out of dollars New German chancellor Friedrich Merz has a lot to tackle when he finally forms his coalition government. Much of it will involve spending more money, which has bond investors on alert for higher borrowing. One senior economist told a conference in Frankfurt this week that he believes there are five factors doggi...

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37:23

German election a pivotal moment for EGBs and...

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Send us a text ◆ German poll to have far-reaching consequences for bond market ◆ UK water sector's capital markets tangle ◆ Corporate issuance picks up in emerging markets Germany votes this weekend in a general election. Whatever the resulting coalition, fiscal matters will be top of their agenda. With the pressure on to raise defence spending but with the constraints of the country's debt brake to tackle, the strain is already showing in the bond market before a vote has been co...

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34:04

How the capital markets can rearm Europe

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2025/02/14

Send us a text ◆ Using the bond market to boost European security ◆ Africa nears sovereign debt stabiliser ◆ Sterling's ESG problem With the new US government reasserting its belief that Europe needs to provide more of its own security this week, attention has turned once again to how to pay for it. We discuss the various ideas in play, from setting up a new multilateral development bank to retooling existing SSA borrowers for the purpose, examining the pros and cons of each. Mean...

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47:43

Team Trump turns gaze on MDBs

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/02/07

Send us a text ◆ Trump orders review of US involvement in multilateral development banks ◆ What's driving Reverse Yankee issuance? ◆ Deutsche Bank sparks new controversy in AT1 capital Among many of the executive orders Donald Trump has signed since he became US president for the second time was one which ordered a review of the country's involvement in international organisations. That will include the multilateral development banks, in which it is often the biggest shareholder a...

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