Higher borrowing volumes and much-improved market sentiment have helped usher a promising start for issuers in 2024. With monetary tightening expected to ease and increasingly attractive conditions for borrowers, will the upturn in bond markets continue as the year unfolds? On this episode of Market Points, Patrick Dabiet, Managing Director and Head, Canadian Debt Syndication, and Fadi Attia, Managing Director and Head, U.S. Debt Syndication, discuss what’s driving the momentum in corporate bond issuance in the Canadian and U.S. markets. They also assess whether these trends will continue and the approach borrowers can take to access the market.
