Evercore and PJT Partners reported their best fourth quarter and fully year results as the market for mega mergers soared in 2025 and restructuring mandates continued to build. 

Senior JP Morgan investment banker Ina De will retire later this year, after almost 39 years at the firm spanning debt and equity capital markets, derivatives and other areas, the US bank told staff in a memo on Thursday.

UBS increased its returns target for 2028 after delivering bumper annual results as its takeover of Credit Suisse continues to bear fruit and it delivered record fourth-quarter trading revenues, up 17% from a year earlier.

(Reuters) - Spain's Santander will buy US regional lender Webster Financial in a US$12.2bn deal to create one of the country's top 10 retail and commercial banks, it said on Tuesday, marking a major bet on the US market.

National Bank of Greece made its long-awaited debut in the Additional Tier 1 market on Thursday with a €500m perpetual non-call 5.5-year note that set a new tight reference point for the Greek product. 

Ceska sporitelna returned to the euro market with exactly the same bond structure as on its last two visits, but at a much tighter spread than before.

NextEra Energy raised about US$2.8bn equivalent across euros and dollars on Tuesday through the sale of senior unsecured bonds as the electric power and energy infrastructure company rides on the coattails of Silicon Valley tech giants rushing to source power for their AI data centers.  

Hamburg kicked off what is set to be a second wave of supply from German sub-sovereigns as it sold a bond at the very short end of the curve on Thursday.

A Blackstone joint venture is in the securitization market with a US$3bn offering to refinance the Cosmopolitan casino on the Las Vegas Strip that it purchased in 2022.

Digital financial services company Zip broke new ground with its 12th buy now, pay later consumer loans ABS, the A$300m (US$210m) Zip Master Trust Series 2026-1, which priced on January 30. 

General Motors on Tuesday kick-started US asset-backed issuance in February on the heels of a solid January when issuers sold more than US$27bn of supply.

Sao Paulo water utility Sabesp has delivered a landmark for Latin American sustainable finance, issuing by far the largest blue bond yet while showcasing what bankers say is a fast-emerging way to bring bond investors into multilateral A/B lending structures that have been traditionally dominated by banks.

ING Groep on Wednesday attracted more than €7.5bn of demand for a two-part €2.5bn green holdco senior transaction, as investors get used to ever tighter spreads in the product and focus instead on attractive yield entry points. 

EU Green Bonds totalling €24bn-equivalent have been issued since the bloc adopted its Green Bond Standard in December 2024 and volume is expected to grow steadily this year, according to research by Natixis. 

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group sold its first social bond on Tuesday, a US$500m 4.522% six-year non-call five digital inclusion TLAC deal. 

CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean has become the first multilateral development bank to apply the United Nations Children’s Fund’s Child-Lens Investing Framework to its bond issues.

Eikon Therapeutics raised an upsized US$381m late Wednesday from its Nasdaq IPO that included participation by Merck, a banker involved in the offering told IFR.

Seeds and crop protection giant Syngenta Group met banks this week to pick arrangers for its potential giant Hong Kong IPO, said people with knowledge of the matter.

Bob’s Discount Furniture raised US$330.7m late Wednesday from its NYSE IPO, just months after paying Bain Capital and other shareholders a dividend.

Clear Street launched marketing on Wednesday of a US$1.05bn Nasdaq IPO with a sizable anchor from BlackRock, giving the digital-native broker a powerful endorsement as it seeks to disrupt long-entrenched players in securities and derivatives trading.

Data centre developer STACK Infrastructure has launched a A$2.96bn (US$2.07bn) five-year project financing into general syndication.

Beleaguered orange juice maker Summi (Group) Holdings has reached a debt restructuring agreement with five of its six lenders, gaining a brief relief from a debt crisis that worsened after the banks filed a winding-up petition a year ago.

Sponsors of the world’s largest leveraged buyout – the US$55bn acquisition of US video game giant Electronic Arts – are seeking commitments from lenders in Asia Pacific for a portion of the massive financing backing the deal.