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European high yield bonds and leveraged loans have maintained interest this week for investors, despite a lack of deals, as other parts of the corporate market have finally been lulled to summer slumber.

Far from seeing Tullett Prebon’s voice-hybrid push as a last stand of the dinosaurs against robot supremacy, those firms going all-in on electronic trading would do well to re-examine their own longevity.

A dangerous and divisive White House hopeful could cause the capital markets problems as the year draws to a close. SSA issuers that have kept the funding taps on through August are taking the prudent approach.

The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect Scheme was officially given the go ahead by China’s State Council on Tuesday, with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) making the breakthrough announcement that the entire Stock Connect scheme will now operate without aggregate trading quotas. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) and derivatives are due to come in future expansions.

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA) is looking to make IPOs mandatory for all insurance companies in India that fit the criteria. For some firms, this could be the kick they need to get their act together. But the regulator should be careful about forcing the hands of insurance firms that are not ready for a listing.

Mizuho's FIG expansion is back on track.

The Ranger meets some new faces and ponders what central bankers wear to festivals.

It has been a brave new world for the renminbi since the People's Bank of China (PBoC) shook global markets with its surprise devaluation just over a year ago. But while there are signs that things have moved in the right direction, it seems a little early to trumpet the move as a policy success.

It is a neat irony that, following the UK’s vote to leave Europe, the sterling bond market is starting to look more and more European.

Spanish engineering firms with exposure in Latin America may not be the most heavily traded segment of the credit markets, but they are certainly proving the most vulnerable.

I’m not much for technology but one senior banker friend always stresses how important it is for us oldies to live young if we want to understand our juniors better.

The world’s oldest bank has trodden a 500-year line between the sacred and the profane.