Tag: Primary markets
American primary debt markets keep humming
Dealogic data show US debt capital market (DCM) issuance is little changed year on year (YoY) in aggregate: 2025 year-to-date (YtD) totals US$1.97 trillion...
Insight & Analysis: Municipals’ primary and secondary markets hit records
According to Sifma data, municipals’ primary markets issued a record US$162.8 billion of new debt in the second quarter of 2025, eclipsing the previous...
Piraeus €500m green bond, 7 times oversubscribed
Piraeus Bank SA, a subsidiary of Piraeus Financial Holdings SA, successfully priced a €500 million Green Senior Preferred Bond on 28 May 2025. The...
Insights & Analysis: SEC new datasets show 2024 was a boom...
New regulatory data published by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Economic and Risk Analysis shows US asset-backed securities issuance almost doubling...
Origination: Zeitenwende – German issuance to grow 40%
The new CDU/CSU coalition pivot from “Schwartze Null” -Zero Black- to “whatever it takes for our defence” is shaking European debt markets.
Following the CDU/CSU...
Retreat in credit market primary activity in January 2025, Munis a...
In January 2025, Debt Capital Markets (DCM) for credit issuance retreated in the US and in Europe while primary activity for municipal bonds (Munis)...
‘Kilts’ issuance details to come after 1 April 2025
The initial phase of due diligence concerning a potential inaugural Scottish bond issuance has now concluded, with findings published by the Scottish government in...
Chart of the week: Get in early
Access to primary bond markets has been a headline topic for buy-side traders over the last four years. As issuance volumes have grown, rising...
Primary markets: The choices facing buy-side traders
Ted Douglas, Co-Head of Global Fixed Income, Capital Formation at IHS Markit spoke to The DESK about the dynamics of bond issuance for the...
