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The Financial Conduct Authority’s plan to look at helping US-style special purpose acquisition companies list in London smacks of short-termism. Even in the US, the epicentre of the Spac craze, there is a growing clamour for the Securities and Exchange Commission to toughen listing rules.

Indonesian textile company Sri Rejeki Isman (Sritex) saw its bonds plummet in the secondary market this week, as investors grappled with the company's missed debt payments and a series of ratings downgrades. Morgan Davis reports.

“What gets measured gets managed,” goes an old saw popular in sustainable finance circles. If companies, investors and banks, the argument says, collect better environmental and social data, this knowledge will naturally breed improvements in performance.

Let history show that even though no one even kicked a ball in the European Super League, it still had a winner: JP Morgan.

Meituan, a Chinese food delivery company, raised $10bn this week from a combined equity placement and convertible bond issue. Investors flocked to the deal for the investment grade rating and the offer of a highly liquid and volatile stock. Jonathan Breen reports.

FedEx, the US delivery company, picked Europe to print its debut sustainability bond on Tuesday, as the region’s green and environmental, social and governance debt market is “years ahead” of the US.

If the European Union wants its bonds to be considered the true eurozone safe asset, then it’s going to have to start acting like it means to stick around.

Banks are optimistic that sustainability-linked bonds have a bright future as part of their funding toolkits, after Berlin Hyp became the first financial institution to land a deal in the format this week. More trades are already on the way and market participants are stepping up their efforts to break down the remaining barriers for FIG borrowers.

Vingroup Joint Stock Company raised $500m from an exchangeable bond this week, selling the largest equity-linked transaction from Vietnam — and developing the market by using novel structural features never seen before in the country. Rashmi Kumar reports.

Mexico cleaned up a chunk of short-term debt maturities on Tuesday with a $3.26bn 2041 bond. The country’s deputy finance minister told GlobalCapital that the sovereign had decided to act fast to issue amid expectations that US Treasury yields will widen further.

Banks shouldn’t let conceptual considerations stand in the way of them issuing sustainability-linked bonds.

Institutional private credit is emerging as a competitive substitute for bank lending in Europe, but companies need to remember that alternative lenders define what they are looking for more narrowly than banks.