Total Issuance: Activity picked up from April to May, with $4.3 billion of new convertible bond issuance over 8 transactions. Year-to-date there has now been $14.4 billion of total issuance in 31 deals. This is behind last year’s pace of $19.2 billion over 51 deals over the first five months of the ... >>>Read More

Total Issuance: April was typically quiet, with most U.S. issuers in blackout for several weeks. There were 5 convertible bond deals for a total of $1.5 billion. Bilibili and Baozun continued the trend in the past year of Chinese-based tech companies accessing the market.  Year-to-date total ... >>>Read More

Total Issuance: March continued the healthy primary market activity in February (allowing for many companies being in blackout at the end of the month), with 7 deals for $4.3 billion last month. The YTD total now stands at $8.4 billion across 18 deals, compared to $9.6 billion in 28 deals in Q1 ... >>>Read More

Total Issuance: February new issue activity recovered from December and January, with 9 deals for a total of $2.9 billion, of which half was the $1.4375 bn Fortive deal. The YTD total now stands at $3.9 billion (11 deals), compared to $4.2 billion (15 deals) through February of last year.Investment ... >>>Read More

Total Issuance: With the continued market choppiness from the holiday period, January was quiet in the primary market, even accounting for the fact that most companies are in blackout for the first few weeks. There were 2 convertible debt deals totalling $1 billion — CONMED and for China-based Nio ... >>>Read More