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Any capital markets professional breathing a sigh of relief over the agreement of Monday's Brexit transition deal between the EU and the UK, should stop to realise that all this agreement does is prolong the uncertainty.

The European Investment Bank has produced the most highly scored deal of the week on BondMarker with two consecutive benchmarks.

The Chinese leadership picks Yi Gang as the next governor of the People’s Bank of China, Chinese bankers are confident about the prospect of the country’s economy, and Panama prepares to sell $500m worth of Panda bonds by the end of the year.

Regulators prepare for the introduction of Chinese depository receipts (CDRs), the US Federal Reserve scolds Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for failing to comply with anti-money laundering rules, and China holds less US Treasury bonds in January.

We all know the power of client meetings. Those face-to-face encounters are what can make or break us investment bankers. But sometimes those 'breaks' are beyond our control.

A top US derivatives regulator on Wednesday went into battle against his European counterparts over their new proposal that will increase the stringency of the EU’s oversight of foreign clearing houses.

The heads of Gemini, the digital asset exchange, have put forward a proposal for cryptocurrency spot markets to regulate themselves, and appear to have gained approval from a top derivatives regulator.

The eagerly awaited European 'Covered Bond Directive' was supposed to ring-fence the quality of covered bonds by clearly defining the assets that are eligible for the cover pool. But the proposal risks diluting the quality of the product.

A respectable culture in markets matters, but not in the way that regulators think it does. It can’t be dictated from on high, but it does have to be actively maintained.

The contest over who will succeed Lloyd Blankfein as Goldman Sachs boss has ended, with David Solomon the victor. Both Solomon, and Harvey Schwartz, who will be resigning from the firm, shared their thoughts about themselves, and the markets, in podcasts last year — and GlobalCapital picked over the highlights.

The Singapore Exchange is firing shots at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange once again to lure IPO-hopefuls, this time over the city’s ever closer political relationship with China. But Hong Kong can boast some clear advantages over its rival.

The most popular deal on BondMarker in February was a 20 year euro benchmark from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Voters lapped up long-dated efforts on BondMarker last month: no deal in the top five had a maturity shorter than 15 years.