HM Treasury has selected HSBC Orion as the platform provider for the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot issuance, a move that positions the United Kingdom as the first among the G7 nations to issue tokenised sovereign bonds on a blockchain. The announcement, made on 12 February 2026, represents a watershed moment in the modernisation of […]
Côte d’Ivoire has once again confirmed its status as Africa’s most reliable frontier market borrower, raising $1.3 billion in a 15-year Eurobond that was oversubscribed nearly five times and priced at the country’s lowest effective financing cost in five years. Executed on 18 February 2026, the transaction drew an order book of $6.3 billion from […]
European government bond markets have experienced considerable volatility throughout 2025 and into 2026, reflecting evolving expectations regarding monetary policy trajectory and underlying economic conditions across the eurozone. The ECB’s monetary policy stance remains focused on maintaining price stability while supporting economic growth in a complex macroeconomic environment characterized by divergent national economic conditions and fiscal […]
Asian government bond markets have experienced substantial transformation throughout 2025 and into 2026, characterized by increasing flows of international capital seeking exposure to higher-yielding securities and economies with favorable growth prospects. The diversity of monetary policy trajectories across Asian central banks has created important variations in treasury bond yields and attractive relative value opportunities for […]
A Measured Step in Sri Lanka’s Debt Market Recovery Sri Lanka’s government bond market recorded significant activity this week, with the Ministry of Finance’s Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) confirming the sale of 14 billion rupees through on-tap issuances, bringing the total bond sales for the week to 154 billion rupees. The bonds, spanning maturities […]
China is not staging a dramatic exit from US government debt — but it is clearly repositioning. Over more than a decade, Beijing has steadily reduced its holdings of US Treasuries. The shift has been quiet, methodical, and incremental. Yet the cumulative effect is substantial: China’s share of foreign-held US Treasuries has fallen to 7.3%, […]
Paris-based investment firm RGreen Invest has reached a €900 million final close for Infragreen V, the fifth equity vintage of...
Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. has cancelled the development of three electric vehicle models that were planned for the North...
Electric vehicle charging company Electreon has completed its acquisition of InductEV Inc., a U.S.-based provider of high-power stationary wireless charging...
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a $1.9 billion funding opportunity aimed at accelerating upgrades to the...
