Agora signs up collaborators for its digital capital markets journey

Veteran DCM banker Charlie Berman closes in on first product launch aimed at digitizing processes and workflows along the life of a bond.

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Debt capital markets (DCM) teams have been frantically busy since mid-March. Investment grade corporates, banks, sovereigns and supranationals all rushed to issue bonds in the teeth of the Covid-19 lockdowns in order to secure term funding while they still could.

“The corporate debt market has seen record levels with a couple of $120 billion weeks in the US and €80 billion weeks in Europe,” says Barry Donlon, head of DCM EMEA at UBS.

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