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The pipeline for offshore Indian loan syndications is showing signs of life, with opportunistic corporate refinancings and more borrowing by housing finance companies pushing dealflow. Bankers expect the second half of the year to be busier than a very quiet first six months, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

CEEMEA borrowers pounced on a clear window this week and paid for it with premiums as high as 50bp. But while everyone talks about the size of the concessions, it's worth noting that issuers showed the maturity to accept them.

What the Greece agreement means for its future and European democracy is open to debate. But the Greek crisis’s can kicking of the last few years will certainly increase in volume and frequency — meaning SSAs should get used to a window driven market.

China’s domestic stock market has been gripped by chaos in recent weeks, and as investors duck for cover, it would be easy for bankers to fall back on cornerstone support to get deals done. But they would be missing a crucial opportunity for Asia ECM to grow up.

The new chief executives at Deutsche Bank and Barclays have plenty of challenges ahead. Internal bureaucracy could well be the biggest.

"Grexit", "Greferendum" — the slamming together of "Greece" and other semi-appropriates words has been the only consistent part of the debt talks between Greece and its creditors.

As regulators have looked to make banks bankruptcy-proof in the years since the financial crisis, bank capital investors have been forced to adapt quickly to new layers of protection. For seasoned buyers, the disruptive force of the Financial Stability Board’s rules on total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) is simply the next challenge.

All political careers supposedly end in failure, but the same seems to be true of investment bank chief executives.

This year has already proven to be a record one in terms of Chinese issuers taking advantage of the low yielding environment in Europe. But a pair of landmark trades over the past two weeks could drive issuance to scale even greater heights this year, writes Rev Hui.

Big changes are in store for the Korea Exchange (KRX) as it gets closer to a long-awaited IPO, a move expected to help the bourse compete more effectively with international stock exchanges. But hurdles stand in the way, writes John Loh.

Loans bankers are keeping a close eye on the recent volatility in Chinese stocks and the cautious atmosphere in the Asian bond market. While most said it was too early to assess the impact of either event, they were hoping the skittishness of bond and equity investors might swing the pendulum in favour of syndicated loans, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

China’s stock markets have gone from being the darling of investors to a ticking time bomb, with nearly $3.5tr in value vaporised in less than a month. Chinese officials have unleashed a torrent of desperate measures almost every day this past week to stem losses, but with little success. Some tough lessons will now have to be learnt, writes Rashmi Kumar.