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The GlobalCapital Podcast — 239 episodes

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1

How bond issuers will take advantage of Iran ceasefire

2

The Gulf’s banks get ready for recession

3

News from the frontier: Africa leads emerging market bond revival

4

The dollar dilemma for public sector bond issuers

5

Banks may be shut but Amazon delivers

6

The future of the Middle East bond market

7

Abu Dhabi, Blue Owl and bridging lenders

8

Software update: AI Saas scare haunts capital markets

9

Pod 'sell America'

10

New tricks for old dogs and 'fishing with dynamite'

11

What is Scotland?

12

Defence stocks, Ukrainian bonds, fear and Fomo in investment banking

13

Fast money slows down to take on SSA bonds

14

'Nameless dread' and the blockbuster bond market

15

GlobalCapital's Review 2025 | Outlook 2026 podcast

16

ECB baffles bank bond market by mulling AT1 abolition

17

Rewriting the rules for private credit and banks

18

A tale of two capital markets

19

Banks, bonuses and the Budget

20

Reining in private credit, AI capex looms over bonds and defence label flaps wings

21

US companies light up Europe's bond market as exchanges revise IPO playbook

22

Thought for pause: how bond markets can help after a hurricane

23

CLOs in focus, bank issuers plan for trouble, despatch from DC

24

Credit Suisse AT1 holders' hollow victory and Islamic innovation

25

BlackRock on bonds: ride the tightening

26

Italy wows in MTNs as CEEMEA bonds fly but SLBs stutter

27

The global cash grab

28

Seville lore: bond market debates regs and reciprocity

29

Colombia's European tour as EM issuers enjoy rampant markets

30

Raving headlines, roaring markets

31

France: Bayrou, bonds and BPCE

32

Bond issuer opportunities: from SSAs to banks (via Australia)

33

Europe's largest asset manager on credit markets

34

Credit cracks on as private debt makes incursion into investment grade financing

35

P-cap for Pemex as SSAs zero in and insurers prep to print

36

Budgets, bonds and the benefit of the tape

37

UK eases up on regs as smart swaps arrive

38

The feel good capital markets podcast of the summer

39

SSA bond market nears ultimate spread inversion as Trump bill passes

40

Bond markets called up to meet Nato need

41

War and why primary credit markets are not as worried as you might think

42

Hey EU! Grab this chance by the collar

43

Could AI revive real intelligence in investment banking?

44

The great rates conundrum

45

Orange and black is the new black swan

46

EBRD meets as Romania faces crunch moment and corp bonds lure FIG buyers

47

Relief as Trump administration gives hints on US MDB support

48

Sustainability-linked finance's next big test

49

Development finance reacts to US MDB reform aims as EU looks to cut red tape

50

Everyone has a capital markets strategy until they get punched in the face

51

Flirting with financial crisis

52

On the tariff trail from the Rose Garden to Riyadh

53

The bank using AI to find M&A deals

54

UK plans digital debut as bond market digest EU defence spend plans

55

Trump regime starts to grate on global markets

56

Putting numbers on the defence borrowing hole

57

A new bond issuer to bolster European defence

58

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

59

German election a pivotal moment for EGBs and European defence

60

How the capital markets can rearm Europe

61

Team Trump turns gaze on MDBs

62

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

63

The European Union: the future of a bond market behemoth

64

New recruit joins the SSA market

65

Perfect storm hits sterling bond market

66

The investment banks to watch in 2025

67

GlobalCapital's Review 2024 | Outlook 2025 podcast

68

Would you rather give your money to France or Louis Vuitton?

69

Barnier, budgets and other barneys

70

SSA pricing, German banks and commercial property risk, corporate hybrid spree

71

US ESG: orange vs green follows red vs blue

72

It's the politics, stupid

73

Emerging markets brace for US election

74

Is HSBC about to power up in investment banking?

75

The Rockefeller swank

76

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

77

Core blimey! Eurozone govvie bond pecking order upended

78

Too much of a good thing?

79

Deutsche’s three bad options

80

European unions

81

Picking a vintage bond syndication from a duffer

82

The first Samurai: September survival

83

Autumn comes early to bond market

84

The UK bonus episode

85

'And here history rattled over the points'

86

Slovenia takes the lead in blockchain bonds

87

Why Ukraine wants to pay investors again

88

The new big thing in ESG capital markets

89

Is Paris in peril?

90

Debt and democracy — how polls, politics and protest weigh on capital markets

91

The mutual savings bank that loves M&A

92

FIG market seeks way past French impasse

93

Things fall apart

94

Taking the pulse of European securitization

95

A tale of two issuers: South Africa and Saudi Arabia

96

The trouble with Capital Markets Union, EMEA investment banking and EM bonds

97

Blockchain bonds on the launchpad as Macron touts big bank M&A

98

From the one that has the market abuzz to the one with 'war next door' — why airline IPOs are stacking up

99

Is sustainability-linked finance over and who will run HSBC?

100

The curse of the millstone mandate

101

Callable capital, calling it off and cancelling cornerstones

102

Holy mountain mama: 'nuns on rampage' as W Virginia bans banks in ESG escalation

103

Do banks’ right hands know what the left is doing?

104

Does experience matter on syndicate desks?

105

Can it really get any better than this?

106

Why everything works in credit and how the Gilt market is changing

107

Banks told to stop ratio wrangling, Shein IPO dilemma and Israel bonds

108

Retail, real money and Ramadan

109

Is regulatory mayhem throttling Europe?

110

African default risk after Kenya, Japan lays transition pathway

111

Time for the FIG market to get real (estate)

112

Making bond market history

113

Banks sued over climate as African govvies return

114

Fast money, front-loading and FOMO

115

Sterling bonanza for corporates and SSAs

116

It's all kicking off

117

GlobalCapital's Review 2023 | Outlook 2024 podcast

118

Milei, Macro and Mexico

119

German SSAs face funding uncertainty

120

Dude, where's my greenium?

121

Bond investors bolster Israel coffers

122

Transatlantic securitization: taking off or final flight?

123

Capital Ideas — The EIB podcast: Financing development in North Africa

124

Capital Ideas — The EIB podcast: Financing the climate transition

125

The long and winding road to debt relief

126

'Something has got to give' in the IPO market

127

Scotland bonds: bridge to independence or road to ruin?

128

Emerging market bonds: navigating Israel, Hamas and US rates

129

Rocketing yields change funding landscape for European credit and US securitization

130

Are banks heading for a precipice?

131

The week the Fed paused

132

Italy's bad idea for bad loans

133

The great funding migration

134

Sustainable financing evolves with latest SLL bonds

135

So long, summer: debt markets firing and the magic number for CLO spreads

136

Country Garden: follow the lack of money

137

Gabon and on and on

138

Debts and downgrades: dissecting the US Treasury market

139

MDB hybrid capital 101, whale sightings in CLOs, aircraft ABS on final approach

140

MDBs warm to G20 capital push and better prospects for Turkey

141

The bonds of summer: primary markets are go as LG Chem smashes records

142

The urgent need to rethink development finance, SLBs regain purpose, IPOs revived

143

Thames Water's debt test, the EU's govvie transition and LatAm alive

144

(Another) big moment for FIG, hybrid market's mall call, the future of the ESM

145

Ash canned: WE Soda cancels IPO but FIG bond renaissance complete

146

Is AI worth the hype in capital markets?

147

Come friendly rules and fall on SLLs

148

Debt ceiling, desert dealing and companies keeling

149

Sukuk, SSAs and securitization

150

Turkey, tortoises and DiCaprio

151

Banks pull back from emerging market polluters over ESG

152

Further fillips for FIG and an EM corporate bond revival of sorts

153

The greatest capital markets comeback of all

154

The quantum leap forward

155

Bunny money: issuers and investors gorge on Easter feast

156

Bad banks: respite or recovery?

157

Rivals hunt for spoils in Credit Suisse wreckage

158

Suisse finished?

159

The sick ECM of Europe

160

The big buyer bails out

161

How Russia’s war on Ukraine changed capital markets

162

How sovereign is the EU?

163

The revival of IPOs in Europe and more disquiet in sustainability-linked bonds

164

Investors’ sustainability turn-off and emerging markets’ stunning revival

165

The great equity capital markets mystery and European politicians’ 180 on securitization rules

166

The beef with sustainability-linked bonds

167

Ukraine: finance and economy, an insider’s view

168

The big test for 2023 and the ECB’s inadvertent boost to private credit

169

Can investors spot a green oil company? Plus top moments of the year

170

What China’s Covid policy means for EM bonds, the EU-lephant in the room and the state of private credit

171

Can issuers avoid the ESG heat with private bond sales?

172

The bull run for bank bonds and scope for improvement in the SLB market

173

The Santa rally comes early and what killed Ithaca’s share price

174

The arc of the covenants and Korean callable chaos

175

Women in financial markets

176

Credit Suisse: breaking up is hard to do

177

Truss booed off in UK pantomime

178

Dark days ahead in corporate bonds and scares aplenty in UK markets

179

Saudi issues ‘bond beyond oil’ as other borrowers try every trick in the book

180

Anarchy in the UK and never mind the Buoni

181

Innovation nears ESG government bonds and UK bankers’ bonuses

182

‘I shouldn’t really be saying this… but I have no idea what investors are doing buying’

183

Capital markets take on the energy crisis

184

Say, do you remember printing in September?

185

UK mortgage shake-up and the global fight for stock market listings

186

Cry me a river: the drought that could herald misery in corporate bonds and sustainability

187

The Pelosi effect and a big squeeze in European securitization

188

Pain all over in corporate capital raising

189

Emerging market bond trauma as ECB rides to eurozone’s rescue (again)

190

The battle to control crypto

191

Sustainable bonds and unsustainable Boris

192

Funding the green transition and hell week for new bonds

193

Jobs in jeopardy but tech returns to equity markets

194

The ECB’s impossible task and an ESG regulatory riddle

195

Barcelona, buyouts and bond syndicates

196

Crowd trouble in the capital markets

197

Tough choices for emerging market bond issuers

198

The panda in the room

199

The nature of credit markets is healing

200

Supply chain disruption comes to capital markets

201

Fantastic pay rises and where to find them

202

Tracing the effects of war in Ukraine across global capital markets

203

So much for the hiring spree…

204

Turbulent times: ECB retreats from bond market, defaults spoil Swiss calm

205

Bonds in turmoil, a glimmer of hope for bank equities — and rhino bonds

206

Capital markets faces carbon reckoning as vultures circle Russian companies

207

Russian invasion: response, retreat and repayment

208

Getting out of Russia

209

Russia, Ukraine and the capital markets

210

Pay, sex and the City

211

The sons of Salomon

212

A critical moment for Argentina and the IMF

213

Where bankers make the most money

214

A golden opportunity for oil and gas as new reality bites capital markets

215

Was that the high water mark for bond market madness?

216

What the first few days of 2022 tells us about the rest of the year in capital markets

217

How the ECB set up the primary bond market for a hectic January

218

Ripping up the IPO rulebook

219

Omicron hits leveraged finance market

220

Unorthodox emerging markets from Bitcoin to the Bosphorus

221

The future of work in capital markets

222

How to pay for the developing world’s fight against climate change

223

COP 26 — a GC Podcast special

224

Has the IPO market become an unfair place?

225

The tipping point for blockchain capital markets

226

Gas — an expanding problem

227

The ECB: post-Pepp steps

228

Finding room for growth in crowded equity capital markets

229

World waits for opaque Evergrande to default — or not

230

The changing shape of the European government bond market

231

What does private equity owe you?

232

The scramble for junior bankers

233

What’s going on in Europe’s corporate bond market?

234

Getting a job in investment banking

235

Revised guidance: ECB hunkers down for the long haul

236

Trouble brewing in direct lending?

237

Taking control of the green finance revolution

238

EU bonds: one step closer to being Europe’s safe asset?

239

Sustainable finance: pushing the limits