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The UK Debt Management Office’s latest syndication left BondMarker voters’ hearts aflutter, but a pair of euro deals from Council of Europe Development Bank and NRW.Bank scored poorly.

Foxconn Industrial Internet’s move to place its chunky A-share IPO in China with a group of strategic investors — closely resembling Hong Kong’s cornerstones — needs to be lauded, not criticised.

The banking and insurance watchdog sets new indicators to measure Chinese bank liquidity, premier Li Keqiang says markets must have a bigger role in allocating resources, and Bank of China’s data shows offshore renminbi bond yields rising above onshore counterparts.

China’s central bank commits to better communications with market participants, the China Securities Regulatory Commission says it will do more to support green development in the capital markets, and the government announces upgrades for three free trade zones.

Public institutions want to up their stake in RMB assets, S&P says it wants a subsidiary in Mainland China, and Fidelity warns investors of rising default risk among corporate issuers in the onshore bond market.

Big bank M&A is a fun parlour game. If one tires of discussing whether one hundred duck-sized horses could overpower one horse-sized duck, or which West Ham line-up 1980-present was strongest (2000-02 - Ed) it's always worth speculating about who ought to be buying who and why.

It really is difficult sometimes to understand how people’s minds work. But as I have plenty of free time in my retirement, I do love to speculate.

Proponents of the ISDA Common Domain Model say that if properly implemented, it could generate major cost savings for financial institutions. But what is it, what prompted its creation and how could it work with distributed ledger technology?

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its Bond Awards 2018 on Wednesday night at our 11th annual Bond Awards dinner, at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London. Some 280 people were there to see the brightest and best performers in the international bond markets in the past year crowned.

IHS Markit’s purchase of Ipreo marks a major step forward in getting the primary bond markets to finally agree on a Street-wide technology standard. But it’s still not the standard the market deserves.

An unorthodox government is now in charge in Italy, but this should not prevent investors from backing Italian corporates as they prep initial public offerings.

The UK's foreign affairs committee report, released on Monday, holds the US Treasury’s sanctions strategy in high regard, because of the immediate impact on financial markets. But it misunderstands the reason for the US-driven sell-off, and so its recommendations are faulty as well.