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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its Bond Awards 2020.

GlobalCapital has held its Bond Awards every year for the past 12 years — but never like this. For the first time, we are revealing the winners in a virtual ceremony in September rather than at our London awards dinner in May.

Ireland won kudos for the swift economic recovery that followed the sovereign debt crisis, but with a considerable portion of residential mortgage loans overdue or restructured, its housing market was in a terrible state even before the impact of Covid lockdowns, let alone the peril a disorderly Brexit may bring.

In this round-up, Beijing plans to further ease foreign access to the onshore capital markets, Chinese industrial firms post rising profits and the securities regulator plans to loosen the rules for equity follow-ons.

We all know, or at least Notebook has been led to believe, that once someone obtains money, fame or power, suddenly all sorts of people come out of the woodwork looking to be their friend.

This week in Keeping Tabs: what explains the relative performance of different EU countries and what does this mean for fiscal and monetary policy; why you should brace for US election chaos; and how to harness finance for green purposes.

In this round-up, Xi Jinping reveals plans for the country to become carbon neutral by 2060, FTSE Russell decides to include Chinese government bonds in its flagship index, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange resumes granting new outbound investment quotas.

The European Central Bank's decision to embrace sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) as collateral and for its asset purchase programme is a sign of what is to come.

The coronavirus pandemic has sparked an unprecedented wave of sovereign borrowing. Much of the paper has, unsurprisingly, ended up on the balance sheets of domestic banks. This has, equally unsurprisingly, prompted a fresh round of worry about the strengthening of the sovereign-bank nexus.

When you go down to the woods today, you’ll be in for a big surprise — hedge fund managers.

GlobalCapital Asia is pleased to invite pitches for our annual capital markets and investment banking awards, which recognise the most impressive transactions and investment banks of 2020.

Gabriel Grego, managing partner and chief investment officer at Quintessential Capital, is known among investors for his devastating critiques of fraudulent companies. A former paratrooper in the Israeli Defence Force, Grego is on what he sees as a moral crusade to sniff out corporate corruption. He is adamant, he tells GlobalCapital, that activist short selling is a force for good in financial markets — and society as a whole.