Supply chain disruption comes to capital markets

Send us Fan MailIt’s not just raw materials and components that are hard to get hold of nowadays. The European leveraged finance market is bang on trend and experiencing some supply chain disruption of its own. We explain which parts of the market are just starting to work again and which are about to seize up and how that will proliferate across other parts of the capital markets. Naturally, we also find a way to crowbar a discussion of Elon Musk’s planned purchase of Twitter into the mix and examine how the leveraged finance market might help or hinder that deal.We also look at how the bond market for financial institutions trying to raise funding is changing. We test the idea that it may become a market of haves and have-nots in terms of cheap, easy access to bond market funding. Then we turn to sustainable finance. We discuss how investors are making bigger demands of issuers who want to print sustainability-linked bonds and the knock-on effects this will have on their supply chains and on the products and services they produce as the capital markets learn ever more about how to account for and mitigate emissions.