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There are plenty of reasons to be cheerful about first quarter bank results, but it’s too early to be excited.

The social confines of the past year have made me forget the importance of behaving myself in front of strangers.

Senator Marco Rubio is the latest Republican in the US to launch an attack on what conservative voices have recently dubbed “woke capital,” apparently putting the GOP at odds with an investment world that has embraced ESG.

There is a golden opportunity for banks to set a precedent by issuing sustainability-linked bonds across the capital stack, rather than waiting for regulators to finish fretting over the guidance.

As its debt-to-GDP ratio inflates and its public finances come under pressure, some have wondered if Tunisia will succumb to a debt restructuring process. But the governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Marouane El Abassi, told GlobalCapital that the country is intent on securing new IMF funding as a prerequisite to entering capital markets.

Neoen, the French renewable energy company, completed a €600m rights issue at the start of April to help fund it until 2025. Its CFO, Louis-Mathieu Perrin, spoke to GlobalCapital about the deal and explained how green equity stories can still win investors’ attention, despite a recent cooling off in stock valuations.

In this round-up, Beijing decides to leave ‘clean coal’ out of the latest list of eligible projects for green bonds, stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen plan to tighten approval for bond issuance, and the first batch of public infrastructure real estate investment trusts (Reits) are being reviewed at the two bourses.

Credit Suisse had a great first quarter, if you ignore one or two little hiccups. The firm enjoyed a big uptick in investment banking revenues but senior management is fighting fires lit by the double disasters of Greensill Capital and Archegos Capital.

This week Keeping Tabs looks at the financial factors that drove some European clubs to try and create a breakaway super league, and what might be driving inflation other than the pandemic recovery.

Kenneth Lay, chair of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), is no stranger to using financial innovation to help tackle some of the world's biggest problems. He spoke to GlobalCapital about the importance of IFFIm as a vehicle to finance the global vaccine rollout in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Freelance financial journalists in China have found a new source of work — disgruntled wives out to shame their husbands.

Let history show that even though no one even kicked a ball in the European Super League, it still had a winner: JP Morgan.