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How can banks conduct due diligence at a time when so few are willing or able to travel? Staff at one Chinese broker have been presented with a rather unappealing solution.

Do investors matter in China’s bond market? Not much, judging by a recent series of bondholder meetings. HNA Group Co and Gemdale are the latest companies to push their luck. It is time for regulators to push back.

In the first in a new series of crisis-time interviews with senior capital markets participants, GlobalCapital's Toby Fildes talks to Frank Czichowski, treasurer of Germany's KfW.

Oil trading at minus $40 a barrel may be a one-off, but ultra-cheap oil is not. The industry’s bonds may look attractive at the current inflated yields — but they should tempt only investors who are brave, patient and selective.

Financial institutions with funding needs that are holding off in anticipation of better issuance conditions are doing it wrong. Waiting until the other side of earnings season to bring deals will likely prove a mistake.

Canadian banks should be applauded for funding themselves in public with deals bought by real investors in a range of currencies at actual market clearing levels — astonishing though that may be for the many entitled European issuers that have shamelessly become accustomed to central bank funding.

With its more relaxed rules around pre-emption rights, the UK has led from the front by allowing embattled companies to raise equity to keep themselves alive during the coronavirus pandemic. The market's flexibility means there have been no damaging delays waiting for for formal rule changes. Such pragmatism is admirable, although more must be done to protect retail investors from dilution.

A eurozone bad bank would have been difficult to institute even without the coronavirus crisis to spur it on. Now, with countries diverging on moratorium measures in response to the pandemic, it’s verging on impossible.

Recent dollar bonds in Asia offer timely insight into the ingredients needed to seal deals in the Covid-19 environment.

Pressure on Asia’s loan market has eased recently as funding costs come under control and the Covid-19 spread in China slows down. But bankers hoping for a quick rebound in deal flow should keep their expectations in check.

In this round-up, the People’s Bank of China cuts the one year and five year loan prime rates (LPRs), Moody’s lowers its outlook for Chinese property developers to negative and Wuhan’s new death toll from Covid-19 is 50% higher than originally reported.

In this round-up, China’s economy shrinks for the first time since records started, exports and imports fall in March but rebound from recent lows, and the State Council will further develop the country’s capital markets.