Amazon Fuels Record First Quarter for Company Bond Sales in EMEA

Amazon.com Inc. has almost single-handedly spurred the best-ever opening quarter for corporate debt sales in Europe, even as markets face huge disruption from the war in Iran.

Corporate borrowers have raised about €145.6 billion ($168.7 billion) in 2026, by far the highest volume for a first quarter on record, according to a Bloomberg league table tracking issuance from high-grade firms across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nearly 10% of that came just from Amazon’s €14.5 billion eight-part debt sale on March 11.