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As emerging market IPOs continue to draw investors into countries many have never invested before, Turkey remains an obvious absentee. The country could be an EM equity giant but political decisions by its government continue to hinder Turkish businesses.

Tagging assets to liabilities is a critical exercise for covered bond issuers, particularly when it comes to their ESG paper. Start-up mortgage lender Perenna is working with Tao Solutions to create a verifiable audit trail with technology that automatically matches green covered bonds to the appropriate mortgage loans.

The shock sacking of Turkey’s third central bank governor in two years confirms to investors that the country lives in a world of its own — one in which central bank independence and fiscal prudence come second to the ideologies of the leader.

New Hong Kong-listed companies are increasingly seeing muted aftermarket trading, rather than sweeping gains on their debuts. However, this shouldn’t be mistaken for a dip in investor sentiment in the stock market. It's instead a sign of strength for the bourse.

In this round-up, China leaves the benchmark lending rates steady yet again, the central bank’s monetary policy committee gets a reshuffle, and senior foreign policy officials from Beijing and Washington fail to agree on key issues at a high-stakes meeting.

Last week’s horror slide deck from 13 first year analysts in Goldman Sachs’s investment banking division describing their working lives, or rather, their lives — they didn’t appear to have time for any other sort — caused a sensation. But other than satisfying the public lust for tales from the extreme end of Big Finance, what can the episode teach those in the industry, and those trying to enter it?

In this round-up, economists expect China’s GDP to grow at a faster pace than previously forecasted, Vanguard decides to take a step back from its plan to establish a wholly-owned fund management company in the Mainland, and Luckin Coffee pushes forward a debt restructuring and a potential equity investment deal.

Inflated order books are only becoming more prevalent thanks to the European Central Bank’s increased firepower. The way to properly deal with this issue is through a collective effort from every corner of the capital markets.

A wise investor once told me: when your taxi driver is recommending a stock, it’s time to sell. The idea is that once retail investors have spotted a big opportunity, it has already evaporated. What about when they’re playing it on the car radio?

The US consumer ABS market is in the middle of a balancing act, as investors cautiously look at indicators of further economic pain while also eyeing riskier assets in the hunt for yield, according to CSC and GlobalCapital’s annual securitization pulse survey.

As yields have collapsed elsewhere under pressure from central bank interventions, fixed income investors have increasingly sought higher returns in the esoteric ABS sector, according to CSC and GlobalCapital’s annual securitization pulse survey.

While it’s difficult to be positive on the outlook, securitization market participants expect only a modest increase in nonperforming loans in Europe this year, according to CSC and GlobalCapital’s annual securitization pulse survey.