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  • Proofpoint, the California-based cyber security company, became the latest issuer this week to take advantage of the booming market for US technology sector convertible bonds, raising $800m to finance its growth.
  • Banks like Goldman Sachs have positioned corporate broking as part of a wider, integrated offering to clients — a strategy that appears to be the future of this traditional UK line of business, writes David Rothnie.
  • Emerging market equities have had a torrid few weeks as investors sell riskier assets over fears they will suffer if US-China trade tensions exacerbating a global economic slowdown. This has limited the supply of new deals from certain countries this year but as always in EM there are pockets of opportunity and this year’s success story has been Russia.
  • Emerging market consumer lender Home Credit will list on Hong Kong’s stock exchange in early October, despite political unrest-driven volatility that has scared off other issuers, according to a source close to the deal. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • German equity capital markets are likely to be quiet for the rest of the year amid a worsening outlook for the country’s economy, which has been battered by trade tensions between the US and China and is also highly exposed to the threat that UK may crash out of the EU without a deal in October.
  • The Volcker rule is set to be tweaked, simplified and watered down, changing the section of the US’s Dodd-Frank regulations stopping banks from engaging in proprietary trading. Only banks with more than $20bn of trading assets and liabilities will face the fullest compliance programme, while rules over what is identified as prop trading have been weakened.
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