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The US government’s agreement to remove the country’s debt ceiling early in February has left the buy-side waiting for a wave of issuance from the US Treasury — including this week, when the largest ever T-bill auction took place. But as opportunities arise for investors, one has warned that the public may end up seeing the bond market as "the bad guys."

China’s FX watchdog loosens its grip on FX forward settlement, HSBC becomes the first foreign bank to handle an individual RMB remittance transaction following a rule change in January and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stopped an attempt by Chinese investors to acquire the Chicago Stock Exchange.

Chicago-based futures brokerage Rosenthal Collins Group on Tuesday announced that it had appointed Jason Manumaleuna president of the organisation, replacing industry veteran Maureen Downs, who left last December.

The Financial Conduct Authority on Tuesday called upon technology experts from across the finance industry to give feedback on a new automated way to provide the FCA with regulatory reports.

Deal-contingent hedging can be a great way to hedge risks associated with mergers and acquisitions, but a number of pitfalls can flummox first time users of these specialist derivatives.

Daimler led three corporate dollar issuers on Thursday as the market stabilised and high grade credits showed their resilience after a stop-start week.

The US high yield market is hunkering down, with skittish investors pulling a record amount of cash for the sector this week while the proportion of investors shorting high yield exchange traded funds hits a post-crisis high. David Bell reports.

Implied equity volatility on US stocks, measured by the CBOE’s VIX index, showed signs of cooling off on Wednesday and Thursday, after it dropped from 27 on Monday and Tuesday to 19.7 on Thursday.

Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will visit European regulators in London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Madrid next week in an attempt to defuse European efforts to alter unilaterally the supervision regime for foreign clearing houses.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi has filed documents with the US market regulator for a listing of American Depository Shares (ADS), according to the Chinese parent company’s quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday.

JP Morgan has become the first non-Chinese financial institution to get an official renminbi clearing bank licence, joining Bank of China's New York branch as the second such firm in the US, the People’s Bank of China said on February 13.

Greetings card company American Greetings, which owns brands such as Papyrus and Carlton Cards, has obtained financing from a consortium of banks to finance Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s acquisition of a 60% stake in the privately owned firm.