Best Borrower Poll |
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| Overall winner | By regions |
| By borrower type | By corporate type |
| Emerging markets | Methodology |
Finanzagentur wins new borrower poll
Best fixed income research house poll |
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| Overall Credit strategy | Overall Trade Ideas |
| Credit Research Teams | Emerging markets |
| >> Bonus regional breakdown results published | |
WHO SAID THE capital markets were dead? This year promises to be the biggest in history for investment-grade primary markets. Banks, beleaguered through much of 2008, are smiling again. In addition to rampant corporate debt supply, the boon of government-guaranteed bonds has provided a fortune in virtually risk-free profits for the biggest debt players. JPMorgan, top of the global DCM league tables, made over $500 million in revenues from the primary bond markets in the first five months of the year. All of the top 10 firms earned revenues of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. Suddenly, against a highly positive backdrop of tightening credit spreads, the primary debt markets are lucrative again.