Magellan Financial Group plans to take full ownership of Barrenjoey Capital Partners through a merger that values the Australian investment banking boutique at A$1.62bn (US$1.1bn).

Banks are reaping the benefits of a trading boom in precious metals, as heightened volatility and surging client volumes deliver a bumper payday for commodities traders.

JP Morgan expects the investment banking and trading boom to continue in the current quarter. 

Canadian banks started the year off right – breaking revenue records driven by investment banking and trading gains, and committing to support their country’s defence buildup in the face of a global trend towards increased security spending. 

The impact of the war in the Middle East on European credit markets has raised questions over carmaker Stellantis’ plan to issue inaugural hybrids in a bid to protect its balance sheet and investment-grade rating.

New benchmarks from Germany and Austria proved too good for investors to pass up on Tuesday, even with war raging in the Middle East and a renewed threat of inflation leading to a selloff in government bonds.

The European chemicals sector has been at the forefront of falls in high-yield bonds this week as surging energy prices resulting from the war in the Middle East further complicate the companies' path to recovery.

Asia's US dollar primary bond market started the week timidly, as issuers hover in "wait and see" mode, following strikes by the US and Israel on Iran over the weekend that have spilled into a wider Middle East conflict.

London-listed UK subprime lender Vanquis Banking Group, formerly known as Provident Financial, may be preparing a return to the securitisation market five years after its debut transaction of a pool of credit cards, according to public filings.

The sudden collapse of UK-based mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions and the war in Iran have cast a pall on sentiment around deals, with a handful of European structured finance transactions pulled early Monday, according to bankers. 

Neither a snowstorm nor a fire cast a pall on the annual structured finance conference in Las Vegas where more than 11,000 industry participants flocked this past week.

The reception of Lloyds Bank’s latest Dutch RBMS underscored that there is sustained investor appetite for Dutch collateral and the broader positive tone surrounding European securitisations. 

Germany's new green Bund is leading the SSA supply that will be executed this week despite the weekend's US-Israeli attack on Iran.

The International Finance Corp has signed a US$6bn insurance-backed facility that marks the World Bank Group member’s largest single mobilisation of private capital. 

Legal & General is committing as much as US$1bn to credit-enhanced emerging markets development investing that will include both sovereign debt-for-development swaps and new structures. 

Green bonds are off to a strong start in 2026 with US$84.4bn issued globally this year, showing a healthy 12% increase on the US$75.7bn issued at the same time in 2025, according to LSEG data. 

Medline is under pressure Tuesday with the launch of a first-time follow-on that will allow its private equity backers to cash out part of their holdings, a deal that is coming less than three months after the company’s IPO and well within the 180-day lock-up.

AIM-listed Rosebank Industries is pursuing its second acquisition since IPO, supported by a capital raise 1.4 times its market capitalisation.

AGT Food and Ingredients fell on its Toronto Stock Exchange debut after raising C$649.5m (US$474m) from its IPO and concurrent private placement, a far larger haul than expected that was achieved only after bringing in majority shareholder Fairfax Financial and accepting a sharply lower valuation.

Japanese mobile payments platform PayPay kicked off marketing for its Nasdaq IPO after the market close, seeking US$1.1bn to invest in the business and let SoftBank’s venture capital fund cash out.

Business assurance and inspection services provider LRQA Group has released price talk for its new loan in a sign that the European leveraged markets are ploughing on despite US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

A JP Morgan-led bank group has begun premarketing more than US$5bn of debt to back software provider Qualtrics’ acquisition of healthcare analytics company Press Ganey Forsta, testing investors' appetite for technology risk when confidence in the sector is under pressure.

Blue Owl Capital's business development companies, already under pressure from market-wide concerns about weaknesses in private credit, are now facing a new challenge from activist investors. 

Full-year earnings from European banks – Barclays, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale and UBS – showed them broadly holding market share in the markets’ business, but struggling to capitalise on the upswing in investment banking. 

The repo market is the heartbeat of bond markets. Like a real heartbeat, when all is well, there is nothing more boring. But when things go wrong … watch out.

The AI boom has been backed by investor enthusiasm – and their money – on an unprecedented scale. Investment bankers have high hopes of a huge year for deals. But just like the broader economy, will this be a K-shaped market for tech deals?

How stable is a stablecoin? That is a question that S&P attempts to answer via its Global Ratings’ Stablecoin Stability Assessment, a product designed to quantify a stablecoin’s ability to maintain its peg to a fiat currency. It produces a score from 1, very strong, to 5, weak.