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• JP Morgan development unit raises questions

  Seen with cynical eyes, the launch of JP Morgan’s Development Finance Institution (DFI) is simply an attempt to expand its emerging markets footprint — already the largest in the business — by capitalising on two trends: the wave of cash fleeing low yields for EM, and the unassailable momentum of the socially responsible investment movement.

  • 23 Jan 2020

• Groupthink: a virus that spreads

  Bond markets have been exposed to an epidemic of optimism this January.

  • 23 Jan 2020

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The FIG Idea

• The FIG idea: sci-fi horror meets utopian dream

  As Marcella climbed into the transport pod for her short journey home to her cosy apartment in the Chongqing suburbs, her wristwatch buzzed, reminding her that this would be her last ever commute. She leaned back and thought of the days when she started out in banking, in 2007, right at the start of GFC1, the first Global Financial Crisis. In her 43 year career, how the world had changed.

  • 13 Mar 2019

• The FIG Idea: the wizardry of banking

  Do we marvel enough at the philosophical and metaphysical nature of the banking industry?

  • 17 May 2018

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