All Episodes
The GlobalCapital Podcast — 253 episodes
The bully of the curve
The meaning of a basis point
Banks beefing up buy-backs as sterling market anticipates bright future
Brewing a bromance between Burnham and bonds
The waiting games: ME issuance, digital capital markets and French covered bonds
The ESN has landed
Two comebacks and a pull-back: credit card ABS, insurance tier two and SSA bonds
Par from the Maduro crowd?
SSAs and US Treasuries: crossing the final frontier
Starmer, strife and sterling bonds
Justice for covered bonds (and securitization)
The outbreak of Warsh
The fast and the dubious
What it takes to break issuance records in volatile markets
How bond issuers will take advantage of Iran ceasefire
The Gulf’s banks get ready for recession
News from the frontier: Africa leads emerging market bond revival
The dollar dilemma for public sector bond issuers
Banks may be shut but Amazon delivers
The future of the Middle East bond market
Abu Dhabi, Blue Owl and bridging lenders
Software update: AI Saas scare haunts capital markets
Pod 'sell America'
New tricks for old dogs and 'fishing with dynamite'
What is Scotland?
Defence stocks, Ukrainian bonds, fear and Fomo in investment banking
Fast money slows down to take on SSA bonds
'Nameless dread' and the blockbuster bond market
GlobalCapital's Review 2025 | Outlook 2026 podcast
ECB baffles bank bond market by mulling AT1 abolition
Rewriting the rules for private credit and banks
A tale of two capital markets
Banks, bonuses and the Budget
Reining in private credit, AI capex looms over bonds and defence label flaps wings
US companies light up Europe's bond market as exchanges revise IPO playbook
Thought for pause: how bond markets can help after a hurricane
CLOs in focus, bank issuers plan for trouble, despatch from DC
Credit Suisse AT1 holders' hollow victory and Islamic innovation
BlackRock on bonds: ride the tightening
Italy wows in MTNs as CEEMEA bonds fly but SLBs stutter
The global cash grab
Seville lore: bond market debates regs and reciprocity
Colombia's European tour as EM issuers enjoy rampant markets
Raving headlines, roaring markets
France: Bayrou, bonds and BPCE
Bond issuer opportunities: from SSAs to banks (via Australia)
Europe's largest asset manager on credit markets
Credit cracks on as private debt makes incursion into investment grade financing
P-cap for Pemex as SSAs zero in and insurers prep to print
Budgets, bonds and the benefit of the tape
UK eases up on regs as smart swaps arrive
The feel good capital markets podcast of the summer
SSA bond market nears ultimate spread inversion as Trump bill passes
Bond markets called up to meet Nato need
War and why primary credit markets are not as worried as you might think
Hey EU! Grab this chance by the collar
Could AI revive real intelligence in investment banking?
The great rates conundrum
Orange and black is the new black swan
EBRD meets as Romania faces crunch moment and corp bonds lure FIG buyers
Relief as Trump administration gives hints on US MDB support
Sustainability-linked finance's next big test
Development finance reacts to US MDB reform aims as EU looks to cut red tape
Everyone has a capital markets strategy until they get punched in the face
Flirting with financial crisis
On the tariff trail from the Rose Garden to Riyadh
The bank using AI to find M&A deals
UK plans digital debut as bond market digest EU defence spend plans
Trump regime starts to grate on global markets
Putting numbers on the defence borrowing hole
A new bond issuer to bolster European defence
Germany: the sick, ageing but 'comfortable' man of Europe
German election a pivotal moment for EGBs and European defence
How the capital markets can rearm Europe
Team Trump turns gaze on MDBs
Your bonus explained, HSBC shuts up (some of the) shop
The European Union: the future of a bond market behemoth
New recruit joins the SSA market
Perfect storm hits sterling bond market
The investment banks to watch in 2025
GlobalCapital's Review 2024 | Outlook 2025 podcast
Would you rather give your money to France or Louis Vuitton?
Barnier, budgets and other barneys
SSA pricing, German banks and commercial property risk, corporate hybrid spree
US ESG: orange vs green follows red vs blue
It's the politics, stupid
Emerging markets brace for US election
Is HSBC about to power up in investment banking?
The Rockefeller swank
UK leads charge to T+1 but brews up a storm
Core blimey! Eurozone govvie bond pecking order upended
Too much of a good thing?
Deutsche’s three bad options
European unions
Picking a vintage bond syndication from a duffer
The first Samurai: September survival
Autumn comes early to bond market
The UK bonus episode
'And here history rattled over the points'
Slovenia takes the lead in blockchain bonds
Why Ukraine wants to pay investors again
The new big thing in ESG capital markets
Is Paris in peril?
Debt and democracy — how polls, politics and protest weigh on capital markets
The mutual savings bank that loves M&A
FIG market seeks way past French impasse
Things fall apart
Taking the pulse of European securitization
A tale of two issuers: South Africa and Saudi Arabia
The trouble with Capital Markets Union, EMEA investment banking and EM bonds
Blockchain bonds on the launchpad as Macron touts big bank M&A
From the one that has the market abuzz to the one with 'war next door' — why airline IPOs are stacking up
Is sustainability-linked finance over and who will run HSBC?
The curse of the millstone mandate
Callable capital, calling it off and cancelling cornerstones
Holy mountain mama: 'nuns on rampage' as W Virginia bans banks in ESG escalation
Do banks’ right hands know what the left is doing?
Does experience matter on syndicate desks?
Can it really get any better than this?
Why everything works in credit and how the Gilt market is changing
Banks told to stop ratio wrangling, Shein IPO dilemma and Israel bonds
Retail, real money and Ramadan
Is regulatory mayhem throttling Europe?
African default risk after Kenya, Japan lays transition pathway
Time for the FIG market to get real (estate)
Making bond market history
Banks sued over climate as African govvies return
Fast money, front-loading and FOMO
Sterling bonanza for corporates and SSAs
It's all kicking off
GlobalCapital's Review 2023 | Outlook 2024 podcast
Milei, Macro and Mexico
German SSAs face funding uncertainty
Dude, where's my greenium?
Bond investors bolster Israel coffers
Transatlantic securitization: taking off or final flight?
Capital Ideas — The EIB podcast: Financing development in North Africa
Capital Ideas — The EIB podcast: Financing the climate transition
The long and winding road to debt relief
'Something has got to give' in the IPO market
Scotland bonds: bridge to independence or road to ruin?
Emerging market bonds: navigating Israel, Hamas and US rates
Rocketing yields change funding landscape for European credit and US securitization
Are banks heading for a precipice?
The week the Fed paused
Italy's bad idea for bad loans
The great funding migration
Sustainable financing evolves with latest SLL bonds
So long, summer: debt markets firing and the magic number for CLO spreads
Country Garden: follow the lack of money
Gabon and on and on
Debts and downgrades: dissecting the US Treasury market
MDB hybrid capital 101, whale sightings in CLOs, aircraft ABS on final approach
MDBs warm to G20 capital push and better prospects for Turkey
The bonds of summer: primary markets are go as LG Chem smashes records
The urgent need to rethink development finance, SLBs regain purpose, IPOs revived
Thames Water's debt test, the EU's govvie transition and LatAm alive
(Another) big moment for FIG, hybrid market's mall call, the future of the ESM
Ash canned: WE Soda cancels IPO but FIG bond renaissance complete
Is AI worth the hype in capital markets?
Come friendly rules and fall on SLLs
Debt ceiling, desert dealing and companies keeling
Sukuk, SSAs and securitization
Turkey, tortoises and DiCaprio
Banks pull back from emerging market polluters over ESG
Further fillips for FIG and an EM corporate bond revival of sorts
The greatest capital markets comeback of all
The quantum leap forward
Bunny money: issuers and investors gorge on Easter feast
Bad banks: respite or recovery?
Rivals hunt for spoils in Credit Suisse wreckage
Suisse finished?
The sick ECM of Europe
The big buyer bails out
How Russia’s war on Ukraine changed capital markets
How sovereign is the EU?
The revival of IPOs in Europe and more disquiet in sustainability-linked bonds
Investors’ sustainability turn-off and emerging markets’ stunning revival
The great equity capital markets mystery and European politicians’ 180 on securitization rules
The beef with sustainability-linked bonds
Ukraine: finance and economy, an insider’s view
The big test for 2023 and the ECB’s inadvertent boost to private credit
Can investors spot a green oil company? Plus top moments of the year
What China’s Covid policy means for EM bonds, the EU-lephant in the room and the state of private credit
Can issuers avoid the ESG heat with private bond sales?
The bull run for bank bonds and scope for improvement in the SLB market
The Santa rally comes early and what killed Ithaca’s share price
The arc of the covenants and Korean callable chaos
Women in financial markets
Credit Suisse: breaking up is hard to do
Truss booed off in UK pantomime
Dark days ahead in corporate bonds and scares aplenty in UK markets
Saudi issues ‘bond beyond oil’ as other borrowers try every trick in the book
Anarchy in the UK and never mind the Buoni
Innovation nears ESG government bonds and UK bankers’ bonuses
‘I shouldn’t really be saying this… but I have no idea what investors are doing buying’
Capital markets take on the energy crisis
Say, do you remember printing in September?
UK mortgage shake-up and the global fight for stock market listings
Cry me a river: the drought that could herald misery in corporate bonds and sustainability
The Pelosi effect and a big squeeze in European securitization
Pain all over in corporate capital raising
Emerging market bond trauma as ECB rides to eurozone’s rescue (again)
The battle to control crypto
Sustainable bonds and unsustainable Boris
Funding the green transition and hell week for new bonds
Jobs in jeopardy but tech returns to equity markets
The ECB’s impossible task and an ESG regulatory riddle
Barcelona, buyouts and bond syndicates
Crowd trouble in the capital markets
Tough choices for emerging market bond issuers
The panda in the room
The nature of credit markets is healing
Supply chain disruption comes to capital markets
Fantastic pay rises and where to find them
Tracing the effects of war in Ukraine across global capital markets
So much for the hiring spree…
Turbulent times: ECB retreats from bond market, defaults spoil Swiss calm
Bonds in turmoil, a glimmer of hope for bank equities — and rhino bonds
Capital markets faces carbon reckoning as vultures circle Russian companies
Russian invasion: response, retreat and repayment
Getting out of Russia
Russia, Ukraine and the capital markets
Pay, sex and the City
The sons of Salomon
A critical moment for Argentina and the IMF
Where bankers make the most money
A golden opportunity for oil and gas as new reality bites capital markets
Was that the high water mark for bond market madness?
What the first few days of 2022 tells us about the rest of the year in capital markets
How the ECB set up the primary bond market for a hectic January
Ripping up the IPO rulebook
Omicron hits leveraged finance market
Unorthodox emerging markets from Bitcoin to the Bosphorus
The future of work in capital markets
How to pay for the developing world’s fight against climate change
COP 26 — a GC Podcast special
Has the IPO market become an unfair place?
The tipping point for blockchain capital markets
Gas — an expanding problem
The ECB: post-Pepp steps
Finding room for growth in crowded equity capital markets
World waits for opaque Evergrande to default — or not
The changing shape of the European government bond market
What does private equity owe you?
The scramble for junior bankers
What’s going on in Europe’s corporate bond market?
Getting a job in investment banking
Revised guidance: ECB hunkers down for the long haul
Trouble brewing in direct lending?
Taking control of the green finance revolution
EU bonds: one step closer to being Europe’s safe asset?
Sustainable finance: pushing the limits