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–Richard Byworth, managing director and head of multi-strategy sales, Asia Pacific at Nomura in Hong Kong, on buysider receptivity to the firm.

EFG Financial Products was making plans to hire an additional five staff in Hong Kong while expanding its Asian client base.

The eurozone crisis has intensified, with talk of a breakdown of the single currency returning to the fore and undermining appetite for risk

HSBC’s Flash China PMI data cheered up some investors but the figures show it is too early to say good times are ahead

The contrasting trajectories of two jumbo KKR buyouts are embarrassing for leveraged finance bankers and investors. And they should trigger a long, hard look at what drives investment decisions.

Japan’s megabanks have long faced a domestic client base that has little appetite for loans, and offers little opportunity for big profits. But overseas expansion is no sure bet when the world is as fraught as it is now. These banks are forced to walk a tightrope, and earnings announcements next week will give a clue as to whether they have a plan to steady themselves.

Talk about inflated gross domestic product (GDP) data out of China has resurfaced again, with one analyst even calling it "the new Libor"

—Andy Nybo, principal and head of derivatives research at TABB Group in New York, on why equity revenues for sellsiders are declining.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore mandated the central clearing of standardized derivatives, but had yet to determine how, and to what extent it would do so.

The shares of Russian bank Sberbank may outperform Apple over the next 10 years if Russian reforms go ahead. But there are still clouds in the short term

Chinese new bank loan growth is the "most hopeful" story in emerging markets at the moment; it may boost Russia and South Africa

Investors would be better off in emerging markets, which are well placed to withstand the slowdown caused by the euro zone debt crisis, analysts say