Top section
Top section
I thought the grass would be greener in fintech land, but it’s patchy and dreary
◆ What now for European Secured Notes ater long-awaited debut? ◆ The mood in European securitization amid MFS fallout and reg reform ◆ Digitalisation of bond market is up to the regulators
Markets are looking to the authorities to simplify blockchain issues, but they may not have the purest motives
More articles
More articles
More articles
-
Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?
-
Policymakers have responded with impressive speed and purpose to ensure that a global health crisis does not turn into a global financial crisis. But what happens now that their cards have been played, and is there a plan for what to do once the great lockdown is lifted?
-
Lockdowns raised big questions about how capital markets operate. Trading floors — their beating heart — emptied even as the need for the financial blood they pump round the system rocketed. But markets thrived. Now Ralph Sinclair asks how the experience will change the future of work in capital markets.
-
Jorge Masalles Sarragúa has become chief executive of Commerzbank Iberia, as the previous occupant heads to perform the same function for Hungary. -
Fair Oaks Capital has hired structured finance professional Christos Danias to run marketing in its European CLO group.
-
In this round-up, Beijing braces for a second wave of local infections from Covid-19, China's industrial production grows for a second straight month, and American Express secures a clearing licence onshore.
Sub-sections
