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Thailand has ambitious plans to plug its infrastructure gap but before these investments can take off, funding must take centre stage. Project bonds are one way to overcome this. Asiamoney speaks to a group of leading market participants about how the Kingdom’s domestic liquidity can be harnessed to fund infrastructure developments, and why project bonds make sense for both issuers and investors.

All eyes are on the renminbi this week with the currency set to officially enter the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDR) basket on Saturday. But what does that mean and why should you care? Here’s GlobalRMB’s quick guide to all you need to know.

How do investors figure out if ESG expenses are actually worth the money companies are spending? Vivian Chow and William Cox suggest some of the metrics investors should consider.

Pulled deals are traumatic for those involved but unlikely to derail European corporate bond issuance while the European Central Bank is still buying the market.

There's lots to criticise about the European Central Bank's recent policies, but the brunt of responsibility for any failures lies squarely with the European Union’s various politicians. When they turn around and blame the central bank, it's pure opportunism.

Deutsche Bank jitters are spreading again, about seven months after the last round of panic washed over the troubled bank. The cause, this time, seems to be that German chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out a bailout, even if US regulators impose a settlement for RMBS mis-selling so large it threatens the solvency of the bank.

India has made great strides with the setting up of its first international financial services centre. The move is laudable, and most of the market feedback has been positive. But the authorities should not get complacent — a lot more needs to be done before the centre becomes the go-to destination for international capital market participants.

Days after China made the landmark decision to appoint a US renminbi clearing bank, it has made yet another clear political statement by appointing Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Moscow as Russia’s clearing bank, with a bond market link also in the making.

A European Central Bank official bigwig ruffled a lot of feathers at the LevInvest conference in Barcelona last week when announcing more regulation for the market, leading to some colourful insults. Luckily some managed to party through the pain. While in London, the Ranger ate some pebbles.

The appointment of a renminbi clearing bank in New York is a political win for the China-US relationship that adds to the currency’s global prestige, but it is unlikely to boost RMB trade or investment in the short term, according to experts.

The aftermath of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union has been an uneasy calm. Inflation is at a 20 month high of 0.6%, unemployment is at a post-crisis low, and consumer spending is robust. But then of course, nothing has happened yet.

Leveraged finance bankers probably didn’t think their jobs could get any tougher. Not until Wednesday at least, when, at Euromoney's Levinvest conference, the ECB dropped the bombshell that it was, in all likelihood, set to introduce ‘guidance’ on leveraged lending.