A desire for liquidity drove Wolters Kluwer to issue a 10-year bond last month in an otherwise barren market. It was lapped up by investors.

HSBC’s covered bond team planned its winning strategy for ING’s covered bond issue around confidence building, and gathered interest in a cautious market through shadow bookbuilding. Edward Russell-Walling reports.

The UK’s largest energy utility, National Grid Gas, tentatively reopened the sterling corporate bond market earlier this year, in the face of unfavourable conditions. Edward Russell-Walling reports.

The credit crisis has brought the ABS market to near standstill. However, RBS has remained active in the field and used its healthy relationship with VW to good effect, reports Edward Russell-Walling.

So-called ‘frontier markets’ hold no fears for some investors. Edward Russell-Walling reports on how broker-cum-investment bank Exotix went digging for profits in the zinc mines of Yemen.

Edward Russell-Walling reports on how Belgium kept its nerve despite increasing market instability.

The flotation of DP World last year may prove to be a landmark deal for the emerging markets. Edward Russell-Walling reports on how Deutsche Bank handled the largest ever Middle Eastern IPO.

Investment banks have been sitting up and taking notice of the pensions industry in recent years – an industry with global benefit liabilities of nearly $20,000bn. Edward Russell-Walling reports on how the banking industry’s big hitters are managing longevity risk.

While the European and US markets are suffering, emerging markets continue on their upward trajectories, indicating that the drivers of world growth have changed. Edward Russell-Walling reports.

Edward Russell-Walling reports on how SEB managed to sell €500m of hybrid capital securities in the midst of a market low-point.