Scotiabank has hired Dennis Eisele as managing director and head of LatAm fixed income origination.  

DBS Group Holdings on Wednesday said it has secured a principal underwriting licence for non-financial corporate bonds from China’s National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors.

Irish investment bank and wealth manager Davy has hired four bankers for its debt capital markets team to gear up for an expected rise in Ireland's debt market activity, five years after the firm shut its bond desk.

Magellan Financial Group plans to take full ownership of Barrenjoey Capital Partners through a merger that values the Australian investment banking boutique at A$1.62bn (US$1.1bn).

Bankers and lawyers covering Europe's high-yield market say a backlog of deals could return in a carefully choreographed fashion once conditions stabilise following the onset of war in the Middle East.    

UK lender Metro Bank has lauded the benefits of being freed from higher MREL needs by the Bank of England but has talked down the prospects of carrying out a liability management exercise on its £525m 12% MREL senior debt any time soon due to the bonds' high cash price. 

North Rhine-Westphalia showed smaller SSAs can price through the uncertainty induced by the Iran war, though demand for its dual-tranche deal was a league below that for the previous day's sovereign syndications.

Applied Digital returned to the junk bond market on Tuesday, dramatically cutting its cost of funding in a US$2.15bn deal that will be used to finance the buildout of an AI data centre leased to Oracle. 

London-listed UK subprime lender Vanquis Banking Group, formerly known as Provident Financial, may be preparing a return to the securitisation market five years after its debut transaction of a pool of credit cards, according to public filings.

The sudden collapse of UK-based mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions and the war in Iran have cast a pall on sentiment around deals, with a handful of European structured finance transactions pulled early Monday, according to bankers. 

Neither a snowstorm nor a fire cast a pall on the annual structured finance conference in Las Vegas where more than 11,000 industry participants flocked this past week.

The reception of Lloyds Bank’s latest Dutch RBMS underscored that there is sustained investor appetite for Dutch collateral and the broader positive tone surrounding European securitisations. 

Germany's new green Bund is leading the SSA supply that will be executed this week despite the weekend's US-Israeli attack on Iran.

The International Finance Corp has signed a US$6bn insurance-backed facility that marks the World Bank Group member’s largest single mobilisation of private capital. 

Legal & General is committing as much as US$1bn to credit-enhanced emerging markets development investing that will include both sovereign debt-for-development swaps and new structures. 

Green bonds are off to a strong start in 2026 with US$84.4bn issued globally this year, showing a healthy 12% increase on the US$75.7bn issued at the same time in 2025, according to LSEG data. 

The KSh106.3bn (US$823.3m) IPO of Kenya Pipeline Company is 105.7% subscribed largely led by local and regional accounts.

Highlands Coffee, a unit of the Philippines' Jollibee Foods Corporation, is working with Morgan Stanley and UBS on a US$350m–$400m Vietnam IPO due by the first quarter of next year, people with knowledge of the transaction said. 

NRG Energy moved quickly to clear the majority of the equity it issued to LS Power on closing their US$12bn transaction, facilitating a US$2.35bn secondary share sale overnight Monday and repurchasing another US$300m via a concurrent private placement.

Medline is under pressure Tuesday with the launch of a first-time follow-on that will allow its private equity backers to cash out part of their holdings, a deal that is coming less than three months after the company’s IPO and well within the 180-day lock-up.

The Walt Disney Company has entered into US$9.25bn of loans. 

A Macquarie Asset Management-led consortium has launched a A$4.95bn (US$3.5bn) loan to fund its buyout of Australia’s undefined Qube Holdings.  

Paramount Skydance has agreed to a US$3.5bn 364-day senior secured revolving credit facility as part of the financing package backing its US$110bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery.

Full-year earnings from European banks – Barclays, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale and UBS – showed them broadly holding market share in the markets’ business, but struggling to capitalise on the upswing in investment banking. 

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