Capital Markets (ECM / DCM)
Walk me through a typical investment-grade bond issuance from mandate to settlement.
Model answer
1) Issuer awards the mandate to a syndicate of bookrunners. 2) Pre-marketing/structuring: agree size, tenor(s), currency, fixed vs floating, ranking, and target investor base; documentation is often…
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