© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

GC View

Top Section/Ad

Top Section/Ad

Most recent


Issuance has kept going by giving investors just what they want
John Healey resigned because the money was not there for defence. It may not be there for anything
Bifurcation is emerging in how investors treat the hyperscalers
Investors should feel more confident when BNPL products are regulated like mainstream consumer credit
More articles/Ad

More articles/Ad

More articles

  • Even if the terms of the UK’s exit from the European Union are tied up soon, market volatility will remain high — with a second referendum on Scottish independence almost a certainty. And this time, a vote to leave the UK is highly likely.
  • Wimbledon (the tennis tournament, not the suburb), like the City of London, attracts the world’s top talent, very little of which is home-grown. But how stable will this effect be in a post-Brexit reality? And can we have some certainties about how it’s going to work, please?
  • There are those who believe a vote for the UK to leave the European Union represents a chance to peel back onerous regulations on business and finance. Those people are in for an unpleasant surprise.
  • Financial markets had something of a horror movie moment last week when the UK voted to leave the European Union. The reaction in Asia though has yo-yoed from panic to indifference in a matter of days, as markets quickly regained their composure. But this is a mistake — there is no going back to business as usual.
  • Financial regulation, for anyone following it closely, is a microcosm of the weaknesses and the strengths of the European Union. It is at times maddening, confusing, incoherent, and vindictive, but gives the countries of Europe a collective voice far stronger than any individual jurisdiction. And, slowly but surely, it is creating a single market for capital.
  • When the covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3) began in October 2014, valuations had become severely overstretched, and not long after the purchasing began, the market came under considerable pressure. Valuations are once again looking overstretched across the board but more so in the corporate sector where eurosystem buying has also only just begun.