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The outbreak of Warsh
May 1, 2026
41m 25s
The fast and the dubious
Apr 24, 2026
37m 17s
What it takes to break issuance records in volatile markets
Apr 17, 2026
42m 49s
How bond issuers will take advantage of Iran ceasefire
Apr 10, 2026
43m 00s
The Gulf’s banks get ready for recession
Apr 3, 2026
35m 30s
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| 5/1/26 |  The outbreak of Warsh | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Powell Fed era ends with split decision ◆ Bank capital to lead Gulf bond revival ◆ SSAs, corporates and FIG face busy May President Trump appointed Jay Powell as Federal Reserve chair — then hounded him continually to ease monetary policy and ended up launching a criminal investigation against him. What could possibly go wrong for Kevin Warsh? The central question for markets is whether he will have an independent mind or be Trump’s puppet. So far, Warsh is getting th... | 41m 25s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | The fast and the dubious | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Fast money reverses out of SSA bond market ◆ CLO managers face risky ramp startegy ◆ Corporate hybrid bond market runs hot despite volatility The rise of hedge funds as dedicated investors in the supranational and agency bond market was one of the biggest changes in that sector at the start of the year. But now they are pulling back from new issue syndications. We examine why market volatility resulting from the Iran war has sounded the retreat and also assess t... | 37m 17s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | What it takes to break issuance records in volatile markets | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Dazzling feats of issuance in public sector bond market but signs of wariness persist ◆ How banks have derisked May issuance ◆ Corporate bond investors stick around So many bond issuance records tumbled in a busy week in the primary market that to some it felt like we were back in January. That is typically the busiest month of the year and the 2026 edition was particularly successful for issuers. But scratch beneath the surface and it was clear that issuers wer... | 42m 49s | ||||||
| 4/10/26 | How bond issuers will take advantage of Iran ceasefire | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Gulf issuers turn to private markets ◆ Public sector and corporate borrowers to bring forward plans ◆ Banks re-enter covered and unsecured funding markets US vice-president JD Vance set off on Friday for Pakistan (pictured) for peace talks to end the war with Iran. The talks are part of a two-week ceasefire, announced on Tuesday, that rejuvenated the primary bond market. We spent much of this week's podcast discussing how public sector issuers, banks and investm... | 43m 00s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | The Gulf’s banks get ready for recession | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Middle East capital securities will need to be refinanced ◆ Supranationals, agencies and municipalities have had a good war ◆ New ideas to promote covered bonds The central group of bond issuers in the Middle East are the banks. They are well capitalised, with clean balance sheets and often high credit ratings. But none has come to the market since the war began at the end of February. With fighting raging and a recession predicted, banks’ secondary spreads have widened, es... | 35m 30s | ||||||
| 3/27/26 | News from the frontier: Africa leads emerging market bond revival | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Outsiders open EM investors’ wallets ◆ European banks let their hair down in dollar market, still shy in euros ◆ Digital innovation in Frankfurt with DZ Bank Angola and African telecom company Helios Towers were hardly the issuers anyone expected to restart bond issuance from central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Middle East war stopped all sales for three weeks, and bankers were looking for a mainstream, investment grade issuer to reopen the market. B... | 47m 59s | ||||||
| 3/20/26 | The dollar dilemma for public sector bond issuers | Send us Fan Mail ◆ What strikes on energy infrastructure in the Middle East mean for emerging market bonds ◆ Why issuing in dollars has become so dicey for supranationals and agencies ◆ Europe's advantage in the private credit metldown This week we looked into some of the direct and indirect consequences the war with Iran is having on bond markets. Emerging market issuers are among the most susceptible to commodity price volatility. So with strikes this week against energy infrats... | 40m 21s | ||||||
| 3/13/26 | Banks may be shut but Amazon delivers | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Hyperscaler sets new standard for European corporate bond market ◆ What it will it take to get a bank to issue in euros again ◆ Iran war could reshape ultra-competitive Gulf capital markets For bond issuers to keep away from the primary bond market after a shock, like the outbreak of the war with Iran, is not unusual. But it is when only one group is steering clear when every other is issuing. For understandable reasons, there have been no bonds from the Middle ... | 44m 08s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | The future of the Middle East bond market | Send us Fan Mail ◆ How banks and bankers are operating in the region under threat of military escaltion ◆ Bond issuance to resume — but how? ◆ Dwindling fee pool poses questions over long-term future for banks The Middle East bond market as been one of growing volumes for the last decade and banks both local and international have been pouring resources into the region to grab a slice of the action. But the outbreak of the Iran war last week has temporarily shuttered issuance. We ... | 27m 16s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | Abu Dhabi, Blue Owl and bridging lenders | Send us Fan Mail ◆ UAE issuers leave emerging markets lable behind ◆ What Blue Owl can teach about private credit for the masses ◆ A bump in the road for UK bridging lenders on the way to securitization Abu Dhabi was in the bond market this week just two days after JP Morgan confirmed that issuers from the UAE would be removed from its benchmark Emerging Markets Bond Indices (EMBI) by the end of March. We look into what EMBI exclusion means for Abu Dhabi and other UAE credits. We ... | 33m 04s | ||||||
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| 2/20/26 | Software update: AI Saas scare haunts capital markets | Send us Fan Mail ◆ How AI threat to software biz threatens stockmarket listings... ◆ ... and collaterlised loan obligation market ◆ AT1 market hits new record tight but buyers turn away Investors are wary that recent AI upgrades — notably Anthropic's latest Claude Cowork agent — are a threat to the software as a service (Saas) sector. This is causing headaches for Saas businesses looking to do an IPO this year as well as the private equity companies that often sponsor them. We exa... | 37m 52s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | Pod 'sell America' | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Why emerging market issuers are doing less in dollars ◆ Republic of Congo — located between rock and hard place ◆ The GlobalCapital Podcast was brought to you by the numbers 17, 100 and the whole Alphabet Emerging market issuers are diversifying away from dollar funding. We examine which currencies they are looking to raise debt capital with and what is driving them out of the dollar market. We also dissect the tough choices the Republic of Congo was faced this ... | 33m 26s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | New tricks for old dogs and 'fishing with dynamite' | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Bond auctions get the fintech treatment ◆ Oracle shows how to fund AI capex with bonds ◆ Banks plough on in bonds despite weaker markets There's nothing new about auctioning bonds as a means to distribute them but this week, fintech BondAuction was involved in a deal for The Housing Finance Corporation that brought new technology to the idea and introduced it to a new section of the market. We discussed how it worked, how it was receieved and whether it will cat... | 56m 57s | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | What is Scotland? | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Scottish government bonds near ◆ CLOs and private credit ◆ Corporate hybrid debt reaches new tights Scotland is looking for banks and lawyers to help bring its first bond to market. But the idea raised a number of questions at GC Towers this week. Firstly, what is Scotland? Is it a sovereign issuer, a sub-sovereign, or something altogether new? Not only did we wonder what investors would be buying but we also questioned what Scotland was selling and why it wante... | 51m 12s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Defence stocks, Ukrainian bonds, fear and Fomo in investment banking | Send us Fan Mail ◆ CSG's IPO and the rampant investment for defence companies ◆ Ukraine issuer back in bond market ◆ Fomo sapiens: investment bankings most joyless Money is pouring into defence, both from government budgets and from investors in the capital markets. The IPO of Czech defence supplier CSG this week was an extraordinary transaction — the largest European listing to date and the biggest ever from the industry. We dissect the deal, discuss the industry's prospects for ... | 47m 52s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | Fast money slows down to take on SSA bonds | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Public sector issuers embrace hedge fund bid... ◆ ... as they flex in the swap market ◆ Car makers welcomed back to bond market Allocating more of a new issue to hedge funds has long been something SSA issuers have only done if they absolutley needed to. But that is now changing. Issuers are giving more bonds to the so-called fast money but only if it slows down. We discuss which types of hedge funds are getting more SSA bonds, why they want them and what they a... | 41m 59s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | 'Nameless dread' and the blockbuster bond market | Send us Fan Mail ◆ What has driven this week's record issuance and what might threaten sentiment ◆ Why the Maduro affair is a wake-up call for the EU ◆ Resolving Venezuela's debtberg After a rip-roaring start to the bond market this week, we take a look at just how good it is for issuers and what has driven the huge volumes. Sure, the Epiphany holiday on Tuesday pushed issuers to do their euro funding in a particularly narrow window, but greater forces are at play across the... | 28m 05s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | GlobalCapital's Review 2025 | Outlook 2026 podcast | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Data centres: crunch time for Europe's capital markets ◆ How AI is changing capital markets work... ◆ ... and hiring It is no secret that data centre financing will be an increasingly important part of the capital markets in the years ahead. But this week we discuss why it is such a vital test for the EU's capital markets and the bloc's overall competitiveness as we contrast the progress in data centre securitization between the Europe and the US. We also take ... | 53m 18s | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ECB baffles bank bond market by mulling AT1 abolition | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Simplification plans boggle bank boffins ◆ Hungry, hungry hyperscalers to push utilities into bond market ◆ A loan in the sand: private credit jostles for place in Middle East debt markets On last week's episode we discussed how the ECB was preparing to recommend simplifications to the way EU banks are regulated, in order to make them more competitive and to drive growth. This week it made its recommendations but they seem far from simple and contain suggestions... | 39m 11s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 | Rewriting the rules for private credit and banks | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Private credit and equity to come under oversight for first time... ◆ ... as Bank of England eases burden on banks... ◆ ... amid global shift to lighten up on lenders, with ECB expected next Alternative asset managers will finally come under the Bank of England's scrutiny, the central bank and regulator said this week. We discuss in detail how that will work and what the implications for the ballooning sector may be. Two days before it announced its plans, the B... | 25m 34s | ||||||
| 11/28/25 | A tale of two capital markets | Send us Fan Mail ◆ UK government guns for growth but did it miss? ◆ French fancy: FIG in favour again ◆ Pandas and Wontons with the AIIB After months of speculation, the UK government delivered its Autumn Budget this week. The country may have felt like it has been through the worst of times but are we about to enter the best of times? We pick through the policies to see how they will affect capital markets from IPOs to retail investment. In the immediate future, marke... | 41m 43s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | Banks, bonuses and the Budget | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Are investment bank bonuses going up this year, and when does everyone get paid? ◆ How the UK government's 'binary' Budget is affecting bank bond issuers ◆ Legal pressure builds on MDBs to reassess climate impact The UK government's Budget announcement next week has been the source of rabid speculation for months. The uncertainty is affecting how banks in particular approach the sterling bond market to fund themselves. We explain the dynamics in play. Meanwhile,... | 48m 45s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | Reining in private credit, AI capex looms over bonds and defence label flaps wings | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Private credit, banks or securitization — which one is regulated too lightly? ◆ How AI capex will affect Europe's bond market ◆ What do defence bonds achieve? Two senior UK bankers were in the House of Lords this week pleading for lighter regulation in the face of competition from private credit and their US rivals. One, Michael Roberts, the CEO of HSBC Bank plc and its CEO of corporate and institutional banking, even implied that securitization may be too light... | 34m 43s | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | US companies light up Europe's bond market as exchanges revise IPO playbook | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Why Europe's corporate bond market is on a roll ◆ Reverse Yankees, hot hybrids and huge size with more to come ◆ Europe's stock exchanges' attempts to drum up more IPOs Market participants had expected this week to be a busy one for euro and sterling investment grade corporate bond issuance. But the volume of business that was done exceeded all expectations. With jumbo deals from the likes of Alphabet to successful offerings from less common credits like B... | 34m 42s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | Thought for pause: how bond markets can help after a hurricane | Send us Fan Mail ◆ Pause clauses could add to disaster arsenal ◆ KfW CEO Stefan Wintels on bond digitisation ◆ What ESG backlash? Banks ramp up green bond issuance As Hurricane Melissa ripped through the Carribbean this week, the bond market had a part to play in helping Jamaica fund its recovery from the storm. That came in the form of a catastrophe bond, which we explain in detail, but we also discuss how sovereign debt could be tweaked in future to help stricken countries get b... | 40m 47s | ||||||
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