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The GlobalCapital Podcast — 243 episodes

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1

Justice for covered bonds (and securitization)

2

The outbreak of Warsh

3

The fast and the dubious

4

What it takes to break issuance records in volatile markets

5

How bond issuers will take advantage of Iran ceasefire

6

The Gulf’s banks get ready for recession

7

News from the frontier: Africa leads emerging market bond revival

8

The dollar dilemma for public sector bond issuers

9

Banks may be shut but Amazon delivers

10

The future of the Middle East bond market

11

Abu Dhabi, Blue Owl and bridging lenders

12

Software update: AI Saas scare haunts capital markets

13

Pod 'sell America'

14

New tricks for old dogs and 'fishing with dynamite'

15

What is Scotland?

16

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

17

Fast money slows down to take on SSA bonds

18

'Nameless dread' and the blockbuster bond market

19

GlobalCapital's Review 2025 | Outlook 2026 podcast

20

ECB baffles bank bond market by mulling AT1 abolition

21

Rewriting the rules for private credit and banks

22

A tale of two capital markets

23

Banks, bonuses and the Budget

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

Credit Suisse AT1 holders' hollow victory and Islamic innovation

29

BlackRock on bonds: ride the tightening

30

Italy wows in MTNs as CEEMEA bonds fly but SLBs stutter

31

The global cash grab

32

Seville lore: bond market debates regs and reciprocity

33

Colombia's European tour as EM issuers enjoy rampant markets

34

Raving headlines, roaring markets

35

France: Bayrou, bonds and BPCE

36

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

37

Europe's largest asset manager on credit markets

38

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

39

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

40

Budgets, bonds and the benefit of the tape

41

UK eases up on regs as smart swaps arrive

42

The feel good capital markets podcast of the summer

43

SSA bond market nears ultimate spread inversion as Trump bill passes

44

Bond markets called up to meet Nato need

45

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

46

Hey EU! Grab this chance by the collar

47

Could AI revive real intelligence in investment banking?

48

The great rates conundrum

49

Orange and black is the new black swan

50

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

51

Relief as Trump administration gives hints on US MDB support

52

Sustainability-linked finance's next big test

53

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

54

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

55

Flirting with financial crisis

56

On the tariff trail from the Rose Garden to Riyadh

57

The bank using AI to find M&A deals

58

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

59

Trump regime starts to grate on global markets

60

Putting numbers on the defence borrowing hole

61

A new bond issuer to bolster European defence

62

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

63

German election a pivotal moment for EGBs and European defence

64

How the capital markets can rearm Europe

65

Team Trump turns gaze on MDBs

66

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

67

The European Union: the future of a bond market behemoth

68

New recruit joins the SSA market

69

Perfect storm hits sterling bond market

70

The investment banks to watch in 2025

71

GlobalCapital's Review 2024 | Outlook 2025 podcast

72

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

73

Barnier, budgets and other barneys

74

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

75

US ESG: orange vs green follows red vs blue

76

It's the politics, stupid

77

Emerging markets brace for US election

78

Is HSBC about to power up in investment banking?

79

The Rockefeller swank

80

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

81

Core blimey! Eurozone govvie bond pecking order upended

82

Too much of a good thing?

83

Deutsche’s three bad options

84

European unions

85

Picking a vintage bond syndication from a duffer

86

The first Samurai: September survival

87

Autumn comes early to bond market

88

The UK bonus episode

89

'And here history rattled over the points'

90

Slovenia takes the lead in blockchain bonds

91

Why Ukraine wants to pay investors again

92

The new big thing in ESG capital markets

93

Is Paris in peril?

94

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

95

The mutual savings bank that loves M&A

96

FIG market seeks way past French impasse

97

Things fall apart

98

Taking the pulse of European securitization

99

A tale of two issuers: South Africa and Saudi Arabia

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

The curse of the millstone mandate

105

Callable capital, calling it off and cancelling cornerstones

106

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

107

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

108

Does experience matter on syndicate desks?

109

Can it really get any better than this?

110

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

111

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

112

Retail, real money and Ramadan

113

Is regulatory mayhem throttling Europe?

114

African default risk after Kenya, Japan lays transition pathway

115

Time for the FIG market to get real (estate)

116

Making bond market history

117

Banks sued over climate as African govvies return

118

Fast money, front-loading and FOMO

119

Sterling bonanza for corporates and SSAs

120

It's all kicking off

121

GlobalCapital's Review 2023 | Outlook 2024 podcast

122

Milei, Macro and Mexico

123

German SSAs face funding uncertainty

124

Dude, where's my greenium?

125

Bond investors bolster Israel coffers

126

Transatlantic securitization: taking off or final flight?

127

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

128

Capital Ideas — The EIB podcast: Financing the climate transition

129

The long and winding road to debt relief

130

'Something has got to give' in the IPO market

131

Scotland bonds: bridge to independence or road to ruin?

132

Emerging market bonds: navigating Israel, Hamas and US rates

133

Rocketing yields change funding landscape for European credit and US securitization

134

Are banks heading for a precipice?

135

The week the Fed paused

136

Italy's bad idea for bad loans

137

The great funding migration

138

Sustainable financing evolves with latest SLL bonds

139

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

140

Country Garden: follow the lack of money

141

Gabon and on and on

142

Debts and downgrades: dissecting the US Treasury market

143

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

144

MDBs warm to G20 capital push and better prospects for Turkey

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

Is AI worth the hype in capital markets?

151

Come friendly rules and fall on SLLs

152

Debt ceiling, desert dealing and companies keeling

153

Sukuk, SSAs and securitization

154

Turkey, tortoises and DiCaprio

155

Banks pull back from emerging market polluters over ESG

156

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

157

The greatest capital markets comeback of all

158

The quantum leap forward

159

Bunny money: issuers and investors gorge on Easter feast

160

Bad banks: respite or recovery?

161

Rivals hunt for spoils in Credit Suisse wreckage

162

Suisse finished?

163

The sick ECM of Europe

164

The big buyer bails out

165

How Russia’s war on Ukraine changed capital markets

166

How sovereign is the EU?

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

The beef with sustainability-linked bonds

171

Ukraine: finance and economy, an insider’s view

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

Can issuers avoid the ESG heat with private bond sales?

176

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

177

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

178

The arc of the covenants and Korean callable chaos

179

Women in financial markets

180

Credit Suisse: breaking up is hard to do

181

Truss booed off in UK pantomime

182

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

183

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

184

Anarchy in the UK and never mind the Buoni

185

Innovation nears ESG government bonds and UK bankers’ bonuses

186

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

187

Capital markets take on the energy crisis

188

Say, do you remember printing in September?

189

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

190

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

191

The Pelosi effect and a big squeeze in European securitization

192

Pain all over in corporate capital raising

193

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

194

The battle to control crypto

195

Sustainable bonds and unsustainable Boris

196

Funding the green transition and hell week for new bonds

197

Jobs in jeopardy but tech returns to equity markets

198

The ECB’s impossible task and an ESG regulatory riddle

199

Barcelona, buyouts and bond syndicates

200

Crowd trouble in the capital markets

201

Tough choices for emerging market bond issuers

202

The panda in the room

203

The nature of credit markets is healing

204

Supply chain disruption comes to capital markets

205

Fantastic pay rises and where to find them

206

Tracing the effects of war in Ukraine across global capital markets

207

So much for the hiring spree…

208

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

209

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

210

Capital markets faces carbon reckoning as vultures circle Russian companies

211

Russian invasion: response, retreat and repayment

212

Getting out of Russia

213

Russia, Ukraine and the capital markets

214

Pay, sex and the City

215

The sons of Salomon

216

A critical moment for Argentina and the IMF

217

Where bankers make the most money

218

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

219

Was that the high water mark for bond market madness?

220

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

221

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

222

Ripping up the IPO rulebook

223

Omicron hits leveraged finance market

224

Unorthodox emerging markets from Bitcoin to the Bosphorus

225

The future of work in capital markets

226

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

227

COP 26 — a GC Podcast special

228

Has the IPO market become an unfair place?

229

The tipping point for blockchain capital markets

230

Gas — an expanding problem

231

The ECB: post-Pepp steps

232

Finding room for growth in crowded equity capital markets

233

World waits for opaque Evergrande to default — or not

234

The changing shape of the European government bond market

235

What does private equity owe you?

236

The scramble for junior bankers

237

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

238

Getting a job in investment banking

239

Revised guidance: ECB hunkers down for the long haul

240

Trouble brewing in direct lending?

241

Taking control of the green finance revolution

242

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

243

Sustainable finance: pushing the limits