ANZ Group Holdings' former chief executive Shayne Elliott is suing the bank for stripping him of A$13.5m (US$9m) in bonuses in what he says constitutes a breach of contract.

The Climate Bonds Initiative has approved S&P Global Ratings as an external reviewer under its global climate bonds standard and certification scheme in a move that is expected to help issuance of sustainable debt.

Bank of America expects its markets revenue in the current quarter to be up almost 10% from a year earlier, to continue a four-year run of rising trading revenues.

Lazard has appointed Raymond McGuire and Tim Donahue as co-heads of financial advisory for North America in addition to their current respective roles as president of the firm and global head of capital solutions.

European investment-grade corporate bond bankers have turned their attention to the supply pipeline for January as the main dealflow of the year comes to a halt.

There is life still in the senior FIG space in spite of the looming holiday season, as demonstrated by Goldman Sachs Group, which took further steps to refresh its euro curve on Thursday with a self-led €2.75bn senior unsecured dual-tranche transaction that was more than two times subscribed.

State-owned Indian bond issuers that had been looking for easier credit conditions to tap the market may end up having to pay more after rupee yields surged despite a widely expected rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India on December 5.

An upgrade by Fitch earlier this week capped a full revival of Oman’s investment-grade credit ratings from all three of the big agencies.

Blackstone is preparing to pay itself a US$231m dividend as part of a jumbo commercial mortgage bond sale backed by one of the private equity firm’s retail and entertainment complexes on the Las Vegas Strip.

Landmark Dividend is returning to the ABS market with its first ever cell tower securitization, adding to a growing list of deals backed by the real-estate management company's diverse portfolio of assets.

A US$271.5m bond backed by student housing revenues will test investor demand for the rare property type, which has been challenged by rising delinquencies.

About US$350bn of US CLOs may be refinanced or reset next year as investors take advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure to improve returns to investors in the most junior portion of the funds. 

The World Bank has raised US$200m from a "clean cooking" outcome bond to support the use of more environmentally friendly cooking stoves in Ghana. 

HSBC has been accused of "climate backsliding" as the bank continues its push to commercialise its approach to sustainability and frame it as a driver of growth. 

LondonMetric Property landed a successful debut deal in the sterling market on Wednesday through a £500m dual-tranche green bond offering.

TotalEnergies Renewables Indian Ocean has raised Rs27.2bn (US$302m) through an upsized selldown in India's Adani Green Energy.

CoreWeave made an incredibly bullish statement by spending a lot of the money raised from the sale of a US$2.25bn convertible bond on an equity derivative to offset stock dilution to a super high share price.

EquipmentShare.com publicly filed documents Tuesday morning for a Nasdaq IPO that would provide it money for continued expansion as well as allow existing backers to cash out.

China’s corporate and private equity firms are once again embarking on overseas expansion with a string of high-profile acquisitions in Europe, signalling a revival of M&A financing from the country after several lean years.

Motion control technologies firm Parker Hannifin has agreed to US$7.75bn of delayed-draw term loans to support its approximately US$9.25bn acquisition of air and liquid filter systems manufacturer Filtration Group. 

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co and Austria’s OMV have lined up a US$15.4bn financing package from global banks to back the merger of Borouge and Borealis to form Borouge Group International and fund its acquisition of Nova Chemicals.

Netflix has sent proposals for the permanent loan financing to replace its mammoth US$59bn 364-day bridge loan to bankers.