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Global Markets Rankings for First Quarter 2023
Global Markets Rankings for First Quarter 2023 Our quarterly rankings are now available. ECM Rankings Q1 2023 global issuance volume saw an 18% improvement on the last quarter of 2022 View Report M&A Rankings Global M&A volume totaled USD 582b, down 48% year on year and 27% lower than the Q4 2022 View Report DCM […]
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ECM Highlights: 1Q23
Global equity capital markets started off the year with a sense of cautious optimism but, like Judith Kerr’s Tiger Who Came to Tea, the equity bear is refusing to leave, causing disruption to market players and gobbling up anything it finds. The first quarter saw around USD 153.2bn* worth of global issuance volume, an 18% improvement […]
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M&A Highlights: 1Q23
Just when many thought a corner had been turned, global dealmaking plumbed another low in the first quarter. Rumblings of recession have only become louder, the world’s top central banks continued raising interest rates in March to tamp stubbornly high inflation, and some of the biggest bank failures since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09 […]
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LevFin Highlights: 1Q23
Leveraged finance (LevFin) issuance across the US and European institutional loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets totalled USD 126bn in year-to-date (YTD) 1Q23, marking a 37% decline from the same period a year ago, but a 56% rise on 4Q22. Bullish sentiment to start of the year, underpinned by expectations of a softer economic downturn […]
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DCM Highlights: 1Q23
Global bond issuance plummeted in 1Q23, with soaring interest rates and bouts of market volatility beating down demand for fundraising and refinancing despite a recovery in investor appetite for credit earlier in the year. Issuance for the first quarter stands just shy of USD 1.72trn, a decade-low for debt capital markets (DCM) activity in the […]
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Loan Highlights: 1Q23
Standing in stark contrast with the previous two years of strong first-quarter issuance, global loan volumes in 1Q23 contracted to levels not seen for over a decade, reaching just USD 637bn – a marked fall from an average of USD 930bn in the same period over the previous 10 years. While the Americas recorded one […]
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Global Markets Rankings for Full Year 2022
Global Markets Rankings for Full Year 2022 Our quarterly rankings are now available ECM Rankings Q4 2022 global IPO volume plunged to the lowest quarterly level since Q1 2019 View Report M&A Rankings Global M&A volume down 36% to $3.78tr from $5.91tr View Report DCM Rankings DCM Rankings dominated by JPMorgan Globally and in Americas, […]
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LevFin Highlights: FY22
All data is correct as of December 19 2022. Leveraged finance (LevFin) issuance across the US and European institutional loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets totalled USD 444bn in the year-to-date, in stark contrast to the record-high USD 1.58trn raised in 2021. The 72% year-on-year (YoY) plunge in loan and bond volumes came as challenging […]
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ECM Highlights: FY22
All data is correct as of 19 December 2022. Global Overview: Annus Horribilis What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2021, global equity capital markets looked back on twelve months of plenty. In comparison, 2022 has been a year of famine. Global ECM issuance dropped to USD 127bn in Q4, wrapping up a […]
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LCM Highlights: FY22
Despite a gathering storm of macroeconomic clouds, global loan issuance managed to keep afloat in 2022. Loans in 4Q22 reached only USD 856bn, significantly short of recent averages. However, considerable activity in the Americas over the course of the year bolstered the total value of loans raised in the year to date (YTD) to USD […]