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China seems ready to cut coal from what is acceptable to fund under its green bond standards, caving to the demands of sustainable investing experts. This about-face is a big and positive move for global green financing efforts, but raises questions about global green standards and how the market frames discussions about what is ‘green’.

Barclays and Natwest Markets have come first and second in league tables for cross-border activity in the US private placement market. As US private placements become more popular in the UK, British banks have strengthened their status in the market.

In this round-up, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bank of China to issue a Rmb5bn Panda bond, Bank of Beijing and ING agreed to launch a JV and the Shanghai tech board published detailed information on nine IPO candidates.

In this round-up, Chinese president Xi Jinping starts a five-day visit to Europe, the eighth and ninth rounds of trade talks are scheduled and local government bonds will soon be available at bank counters.

In this round-up, Shanghai tech board has started accepting IPO applications, new issuance of local government bonds hits record, fiscal revenue growth slowed thanks to tax cuts

The courts are starting to show that they have a key role to play in determining how EU bank resolutions play out.

It is with much sadness that we have to report the death of Vishal Savadia.

In this round-up China’s new Foreign Investment Law is tipped to spark a wave of capital inflows, the US and China attack each other’s human rights records, Bank of China (BOC) expects onshore bond yields to fall but offshore ones to stabilise

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.

Fear of US sanctions kept Russian borrowers out of the market for much of 2018. Now they’re coming back, and investors would be well advised to get involved.

This year’s bull market in credit and equities stems from central banks trying to soften the blow of a downturn, rather than from expectations of actual growth. This irony cannot last, for reasons of economics, policy and politics.

The potential merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank has been repeatedly panned since it was first floated, with good reason. But at the level of the whole German banking system, there is a certain logic to it.