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IMF data shows the renminbi saw a nearly 40% jump in global foreign exchange reserves in Q2, the US Treasury introduced interim rules to monitor Chinese investment in US firms, and the US Treasury is also likely set to name China a currency manipulator as early as next week.

World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim plans to take the new Human Capital Index he launched on Thursday to Davos in the new year, where he will urge CEOs of companies in lagging countries to invest in health and education.

Tucked away at the end of a press release, the Bank of England announced this week that it would delay a stress test for financial institutions. A messy departure from the EU could test the banks in real life instead.

Pledges by leading banks to pull back from financing “dirty” projects such as coal will be meaningless unless governments step in with regulations to prevent other investors taking their place, a senior banker has said.

It never ceases to amaze me how much the world has changed since I started my banking career. Today it seems like there is so little you can get away with. What was once a quirk has become a personality flaw.

Countries should build domestic capital markets that enable borrowers to issue debt in their own currencies, rather than borrow in dollars and face the risk of a spike in interest rates when the dollar rises, the head of the International Financial Corp has told GlobalMarkets, GlobalCapital's sister publication.

In this round-up, the People’s Bank of China announced a further cut to banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) on Sunday, the Mainland’s foreign exchange reserves dipped in September, and China’s state council prepares measures to support foreign investment.

There is no question that Portugal is one of the success stories to come out of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Its 10 year yield, for instance, has recovered from above 16% at the peak of the crisis in 2012 to around 2% today. Amid the current pressures in the eurozone, precipitated by Italy's budget fiasco, Portugal has remained resilient. But rightly or wrongly, an escalation of matters there, or indeed elsewhere in the eurozone periphery, would bring extra pressure to bear.

A recent court ruling in Spain could help to set a precedent for what information must be made public when a bank fails, as claims about the need for confidentiality start to wear thin.

Yields on dollar bonds from Chinese issuers have jumped this year, but investors don’t appear to be rising to the bait. A rethink of borrowers’ fundraising strategies should be on the cards.

The London-Shanghai Stock Connect, slated to be launched by the end of the year, has the capital market’s attention, given its vast potential. But bankers and industry associations want more clarity on the operational aspects of the link.

NRW.Bank and Unédic drew solid results in the latest BondMarker scores, with the French agency just pipping the German issuer with its overall average.