LONDON, 21 September 2026 – Edison Group, the global investor relations and independent investment research firm, today launches a new Debt Investor Relations (Debt IR) service designed to help corporate bond issuers build structured, ongoing relationships with their fixed income investors and improve visibility in a rapidly evolving debt capital markets landscape.
The new service addresses a gap in corporate communications. Despite the scale of global debt capital markets, most corporate issuers rely on equity-focused IR materials and processes for their bond investors, where relevant, or engage only at the point of issuance. Structured, ongoing bondholder engagement remains the exception rather than the rule.
Fraser Thorne, CEO of Edison Group, said:
“Edison has built its reputation on connecting companies with investors through independent, open-access research and engaging communications. Extending our service offering to Debt IR is a natural next step and an area where there’s a real gap in the market. Many corporate bond issuers don’t have IR teams set up to engage with debt investors outside of issuance windows, and most don’t have any independent research covering their debt profile. As more investors enter fixed income markets – including the retail bondholders now accessing the market through schemes like the UK’s Access Bond – that information gap is only going to widen. Edison is well placed to help close it.”
Angela Catlin, director of investor relations and communications at Edison Group and chair of the Debt IR working group at the IR Society, said:
“The challenge in debt IR is that engagement has traditionally been transactional, focused around issuance windows rather than building genuine relationships with the investor base that matters throughout the funding cycle. Companies with structured, ongoing debt IR programmes consistently benefit from deeper demand, more efficient execution and stronger relationships with rating agencies. Our combined offering of strategic IR support alongside independent credit assessment gives issuers both the narrative framework and the research content to engage with their bond investors with the same rigour that leading equity IR programmes bring to the shareholder base.”
Edison’s Debt IR service is available immediately to corporate bond issuers globally.
