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When the Reserve Bank of India brought in guidelines that forced borrowers to hedge shorter-dated debt in a bid to encourage longer-term financing, it was met with an outcry about the feasibility of such a plan. But now that Power Finance Corp is out for a 10 year borrowing and set to receive a strong reception, it appears the central bank’s tough stance is paying off.

Voting is now open for the GlobalCapital 2017 Bond Dinner Awards. Read on for instructions on how to vote and how to download the voting sheets for each awards category. Voting closes on April 13.

E-trading is starting to touch even the slowest, least liquid corners of credit. It’s less powerful than its most convinced adherents hope, but it’s coming, like it or not.

PBoC signals further opening up of China’s bond market and promises further bond market reform, and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) exposes the first cross-border Stock Connect manipulation case.

In this round-up, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) says it expects China’s foreign reserves to grow gradually despite global volatilities, PBoC’s dollar fix remains pretty much unchanged from the previous day and the Shanghai Free Trade Zone will open up the financial sector to more foreign investment.

The scores are in. See how market participants rated Bank of England's $2bn three year, EIB's €5bn seven year, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's $1.25bn five year, KfW's $4bn three year and SEK's $1.4bn five year.

I am a man of simple pleasures these days, happy to sit in my local with a pint of ale watching football — or if I’m catching up with some chums, a glass of whisky.

Kaleidoscopic corporate restructurings have long been a feature at Credit Suisse. There appear to have been three drivers – geographical balance, shuffling the deck in its investment banking activities and a noted propensity for being accident prone.

Tighter trading levels for bank tier two in the dollar market could shed light on the future of the equivalent market in Europe. Stand by for spread tightening.

Though Deutsche Bank’s revamped org chart looks suspiciously familiar, the bank’s strategy is a more radical departure than anything it has tried since the crisis. Perhaps it is making a virtue of necessity, but for the first time in years, the bank is racing to the top of the pack in its capital levels.

Singapore’s status as the go-to hub for Asia’s real estate investment trusts appears to be under some threat, with two Asian issuers taking their business to Hong Kong and Indonesia in recent weeks. But concerns that Singapore could lose its Reit crown are overblown — the asset class is set to remain well under its dominion.

The CEO of HKEX may be keen for Saudi Aramco to list in Hong Kong but as our columnist Clawback explains, there are more reasons for the Saudi oil giant to bypass the city’s exchange than to pick it for a listing.