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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.

Dancing and Abba aside, Theresa May impressed with her speech at the Conservative Party conference earlier this week. Her decision to lift the cap on local authority borrowing so that councils can start to build houses again is to be applauded.

If you were to accost a capital markets professional in the street and ask them to give examples of commodities, they might name oil, gold, copper, or, if they are also a film buff, frozen orange juice concentrate. Bitcoin might not make that list, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is trying to change attitudes to increase its remit over cryptocurrencies.

Italy bowed to pressure — some from the markets, but some from eurozone politicians — and revised down its budget deficit target this week. But the European Union should not go too hard on the country for the long-term health of the union.

When celebrated investor Bill Gross said that 'bonds, like men, are in a bear market,' he was on to more than he might have realised.

We can all agree that very few conferences can be called exciting, but they are always a good excuse to get away from your desk, hear a few new ideas and catch up with the competition over cocktails.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is looking to boost governance of listed companies through a new proposal, but is this in the best interest of shareholders? Clawback columnist Philippe Espinasse has his say.

Papua New Guinea’s dollar bond sale last week was a landmark for the sovereign, which had toyed with the idea of an issuance for more than a decade. But while PNG deserves praise, its success does not reflect a victory for emerging markets.

Barclays is on the verge of signing up for four more years of its partnership with the Unreasonable Group, a company that supports high-achieving entrepreneurs leading businesses that solve social or environmental problems.

Everyone with something they don’t know how to sell hitches their cart to the much-abused horse known as blockchain. Now, the UK chancellor is talking the technology up as a potential solution for the Irish border.

Elon Musk seems to have walked away relatively unscathed from his brief jostle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Tesla’s board must now deal with the mammoth task of trying to control the impulsive chief executive.

Italy’s latest political drama is making investors nervous, and rightly so — when the leader of a country’s main governing party accuses European leaders of market ‘terrorism’, in the vein of an ‘EU equals the USSR’ conspiracy theorist, then you’d be right to dump its bonds. But the steadiness of Spanish and Portuguese govvies through all this shows not only that the term ‘eurozone periphery’ may have to be consigned to the historical dustbin, but that the firewalls erected by those same European leaders after the last sovereign debt crisis are standing firm.