© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

People and Markets

Top section

Top section

More articles

More articles

More articles

  • The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was set to back a significant revision of its cross-border mandate on Thursday, pulling back from overseeing non-US swap transactions.
  • The European Commission is looking to change its rules on research unbundling and other aspects of MiFID II to ease the post-coronavirus recovery in the EU. It is also set to present tweaks to rules on securitization and prospectuses.
  • Commodity derivatives trades are primed for a fillip from European regulators as the European Commission plans to relax position limits on their trading.
  • In a world first this week, 23-year-old student and Australian retail government bond investor Katta O’Donnell filed a legal challenge against the sovereign on Wednesday, claiming that the government does not do enough to disclose the risks of climate change to investors. If successful, the case could change issuers’ obligations regarding climate risk disclosure.
  • EU leaders spent 91 of the 120 hours available at their Special European Council, which concluded on Tuesday, thrashing out the bloc’s new €1.82tr budget — including the €750bn recovery fund — dubbed Next Generation EU. The decision spells dramatic changes not just for the eurozone but for its bond markets, writes Lewis McLellan.
  • The double whammy of coronavirus and a crisis at the top of the bank makes the most testing of times for the new head of Commerzbank’s corporate clients division to make his mark. But Roland Boekhout has a broad vision for the firm’s corporate and investment bank and ideas for how to implement it, writes David Rothnie.
Sub-sections