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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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44:38

Your bonus explained, HSBC shuts up (some of the) shop

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2025/01/31

Send us a text ◆ Why you got paid what you got paid ◆ Insider reveals what really goes on when bonuses are allocated ◆ HSBC winds down M&A and ECM We lift the lid on how bonuses are allocated in investment banking from the top table to the lowliest analyst. Our columnist, Craig Coben, who spent many years as a senior equities banker at Merrill Lynch and then Bank of America, has been through the bonus cycle many times and reveals just what goes into someone's number and the ba...

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54:28

The European Union: the future of a bond market behemoth

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2025/01/24

Send us a text◆ Riso and Ruhl on the development of the market's biggest new bond issuer ◆ Beyond NextGeneration EU: can the bloc fund defence? ◆ The campaign for sovereign-like borrower statusThe European Union is the highest profile bond issuer in the market. In response to the pandemic, it ramped up its borrowing to fund member states' recovery from the disaster, going from raising around €500m a year to around €150bn almost overnight.As an issuer, it dominates the public sector ...

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38:29

New recruit joins the SSA market

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2025/01/17

Send us a text◆ How the bond market will drive CCMM to provide more climate tech cash ◆ Multilateral development bank hybrid capital — and may have found its niche◆ Covered bond market roars back to life but will it last?The CIF Capital Markets Mechanism (CCMM) priced its first bond this week. The issuer is raising money so that the Climate Investment Funds, created in 2008 as a channel for rich countries to finance the green transition in developing states, can do more lending thr...

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34:34

Perfect storm hits sterling bond market

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2025/01/10

Send us a text◆ Gilts rocked on macro fears but sterling bond issuance booms ◆ Just how much of a basket case is the UK anyway? ◆ Debt-for-nature swaps blossomThis has lead to references in the press to the 2022 Gilt crisis, which the Conservative government caused with its notorious mini-budget of tax cuts to be fuelled through Gilt issuance. There have even been comparisons with 1976 when the UK took a loan from the IMF. We find out whether such comparisons are warranted.In any ca...

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36:49

The investment banks to watch in 2025

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2024/12/20

Send us a text◆ The sheep and the goats in UK water ◆ How EM loses assets but gains deals ◆ US corporates lean to euro bondsInvestment bankers feel like they're on the verge of something good: a boom year in 2025 of mergers and acquisitions, by both corporate and private equity firms, and all the debt and equity financing that goes with it.The US will be front and centre, all agree, as even the prospect of Donald Trump's presidency is quickening the nerves with hopes of deregulation and M&...

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35:46

GlobalCapital's Review 2024 | Outlook 2025 podcast

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2024/12/13

Send us a text◆ How to fund Europe ◆ What market experts think is going to happen next ◆ The EU to embark on biggest six-month funding spreeThe European Union shapes up poorly compared to its rivals when it comes to growth and competitiveness. Former ECB president and Italian prime minister Mario Draghi believes the bloc needs €800bn of investment a year, but how to raise it? We reveal all.That story is just one in our Review 2024 | Outlook 2025 special report. If you register by cl...

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39:14

Would you rather give your money to France or Louis...

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2024/12/06

Send us a text◆ French government collapse scrambles bond market ◆ What next for French corporate, FIG, covered bond and public sector bond issuers? ◆ ECB Trials on distributed ledger technology: the verdictThe long-running saga of the peril of the French public purse took a new twist this week as the country's government collapsed over budget wrangling. That turned the traditional order of relative value between French bond issuers on its head — corporates, including luxury go...

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35:02

Barnier, budgets and other barneys

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2024/11/29

Send us a text◆ French bond issuers' tough time ahead as PM fights to get budget through ◆ Trump tough talk on tariffs' threat to emerging markets◆ Investors give IPO sellers the silent treatmentThere are barneys - quarrels to those unfamiliar with British slang - breaking out all over the place and capital markets are caught in the crossfire.In France, prime minister Michel Barnier has a fight on his hands to get his budget passed. It could cost him his job. Meanwhile, French government...

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30:04

SSA pricing, German banks and commercial property...

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2024/11/22

Send us a text◆ The challenge for SSA issuers next year ◆ German banks and the commercial property millstone ◆ Hybrid hot streak explainedSSA bonds in euros have widened against swaps by quite some way in recent months. That will present a big challenge for the asset class's smaller issuers next year. We explain how the market will find a new clearing level.German banks - two in particular - have suffered from investor fears over exposure to commercial property. Those fears have aba...

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34:25

US ESG: orange vs green follows red vs blue

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2024/11/15

Send us a text◆ Donald Trump’s threat to ESG finance in the US ◆ Why ‘woke capitalism’ won’t be put to bed ◆ UK auto ABS faces up to compensation crisisOne of the biggest areas of conflict in US politics over the next four years — and indeed, over the past four — will be over environmental, social and governance matters. Donal Trump’s administration will likely be no fan of what its supporters sometimes call “woke capitalism”.But whether this spells disaster for environment and for ...

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26:47

It's the politics, stupid

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2024/11/08

Send us a text◆ Trump triumphs, Scholz slumps, rates roil◆ Credit issuers off to the races◆ Rates issuers contend with unprecedented Bund-swap inversionThe underlying movements between benchmark rates and bond yields are rocking the capital markets. Why? Well, this week the blame could be laid squarely at the door of politics.Donald Trump's resounding victory in the US presidential race means the world's economic currents are about to shift, turbo charging some areas and threatening others. M...

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31:17

Emerging markets brace for US election

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2024/11/01

Send us a text◆ What Trump or Harris mean for EM sovereign issuers ◆ The outlook for UK capital markets after the Budget ◆ Creditors turn on each other in Thames Water sagaIn a year of elections, now comes the big one — the US votes on November 5 for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump as its next president. Whoever wins, and whichever of the Democrats or Republicans ends up controlling Congress, the effect of the results will be felt around the world, including in its capital mark...

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41:32

Is HSBC about to power up in investment banking?

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2024/10/25

Send us a text◆ New CEO revamps HSBC to be leaner and meaner ◆ What markets think of idea to make UK water sector non-profit ◆ The swap spread dynamic hammering SSA bondsNew HSBC boss Georges Elhedery is restructuring the bank. It's what new CEOs do; and it has certainly been tried at HSBC before, with mixed results. But plenty of people think this time could be different. We explain why Elhedery's plan could work and what the motivations are behind it.A corporate restructuring idea...

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27:09

Rockefeller swank

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2024/10/18

Send us a text◆ Iconic NYC spot powers CMBS revival ◆ Gilt market braces for Labour Budget ◆ Banks plan bonds for November undaunted by US electionThe US CMBS market lapped up its biggest deal of the year this week, backed by loans on New York's famous Rockefeller Center. We look into what the deal tells us about the revival of offices and the pipeline for the CMBS market, which has been troubled for years by changing working practices and high interest rates.In the UK, the Gilt mar...

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33:24

UK leads charge to T+1 but brews up a storm

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2024/10/11

Send us a text◆ T+1 is coming but is it worth the hassle? ◆ Despite appearances, bank bond issuers are not getting it all their own way ◆ Where the EU slots into the reshuffled SSA packThe UK has launched a draft framework for settling securities trades a day after deals are done — T+1 settlement. The EU is expected to follow, with both markets aiming to catch-up the US, which cut settlement time down to one day in May. But not everyone is thrilled at the prospect as they face up to...

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31:46

Core blimey! Eurozone govvie bond pecking order upended

The GlobalCapital Podcast ·

2024/10/04

Send us a text◆ The new pecking order in eurozone government bonds ◆ Can the bond market build Britain? ◆ UniCredit v Commerzbank: after Orcel's gambit, the Orlopp defenceEverything you thought you knew about eurozone government bonds is wrong. Well, maybe not quite everything but certainly big shifts have taken place in how the market views the creditworthiness of different sovereigns with Spain, for example, now trading tighter than France for the first time in 16 years. We look at the shif...

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46:24

Too much of a good thing?

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2024/09/27

Send us a text◆ Emerging market and financial institution bonds on fire after Fed cut ◆ Huge demand spurs massive issuance ◆ But signs of weakness appear in corporates and public sector bonds Markets were unsure what they wanted from the Federal Reserve, but the 50bp rate cut it doled out last week turned out to be just the ticket. In credit markets, all cares and qualms have been forgotten, in one wild party of risk-taking and risk-issuing.Emerging market issuers of all classes, from Sa...

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49:10

Deutsche’s three bad options

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2024/09/20

Send us a text◆ The new rate cycle begins at last ◆ Can Deutsche Bank avoid being overtaken by UniCredit? ◆ Carmakers in trouble ◆ The DLT help no one wantedUniCredit’s stealth raid to grab 9% of Commerzbank last week threatens Deutsche Bank’s historic primacy in German banking. What can Deutsche CEO Christian Sewing do about it? We discuss three courses of action — one clearly better than the others.That’s not the only trouble in Germany: BMW is having to make a €1bn product recall and Volks...

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41:29

European unions

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2024/09/13

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37:46

Picking a vintage bond syndication from a duffer

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2024/09/06

Send us a text◆ Corporate bond issuers swarm on new measure of success to chagrin of their banks ◆ An utter riot at one end of the credit spectrum for bank debt... ◆ ... while investors take their sweet time at the other endIssuers in the European corporate bond market are beginning to fixate on the amount they are able to move pricing in their favour when they bring a new deal to market as a key marker of the trade's success. But just how good an indicator is that? Certainly t...

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