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China-US IPOs face disruption – but will emerge stronger
The US regulator’s demand for more disclosures from Chinese companies planning New York listings may be a death knell for the flow of IPOs between the two markets — but it could go a long way towards offering investors some much-needed transparency.
04 Aug 2021 -
Regulation will wreck ESG
There are growing calls to build all-encompassing regulatory structures around environmental, social and governance ratings and disclosures. This is the wrong course of action and will undermine efforts to achieve the overarching goal, which is fighting climate change.
03 Aug 2021 -
Korea ECM: investors miss the point
South Korea’s financial regulator has stepped up scrutiny of big IPOs recently, disrupting a few listings and stoking concerns about a pullback in deal flow. Investors have so far been undeterred — but it’s time they start paying attention.
28 Jul 2021 -
The UK risks missing an opportunity on MREL
The Bank of England looks set to wrap up a review of the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) without reconsidering its total asset threshold. That would be a mistake.
27 Jul 2021 -
Stan Chart’s apprentices to tear down banking shibboleths
Standard Chartered’s mould-breaking front office apprenticeship scheme is to be lauded. The programme stands to supply the City not just with a new breed of banker but, if handled well, could bring that rarest of commodities to high finance — genuine diversity.
27 Jul 2021 -
Lagarde is right — it is too early to talk about ending Pepp
The extremely dovish tone struck by the European Central Bank last week means there is no end in sight to the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp). Given the uncertainty around the course of the pandemic, that is as it should be.
27 Jul 2021 -
Equity market hiccup betrays Covid fears
A sell-off in global equities at the beginning of last week, in response to the Delta-variant-fueled rise in Covid-19 cases, was largely erased in the following days. But the episode offered a glimpse of the disquiet in the market, and a hint as to the likely reaction if the pandemic were to take a course that put the brakes on economic growth.
27 Jul 2021 -
Asia's bond market: in need of a summer slowdown
If there is one year where Asia’s bond market needs to slow down for the summer, and then emerge stronger and better, it’s 2021.
21 Jul 2021 -
Catastrophe risk: a wake up call for insurers
The recent floods in Europe should be sounding alarm bells for the insurance industry. With events like these on the rise thanks to global warming, insurers facing compounding losses should look to catastrophe bonds as an alternative to costly reinsurance.
20 Jul 2021 -
‘Freedom Day’ could be death knell for UK’s battered corporates
Far from heralding the dawn of a new post-pandemic paradise, England’s removal of almost all social restrictions this week could easily lead to a sharp rise in corporate defaults.
20 Jul 2021
