Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
Surprising alignment on stablecoins and strong support for tokenised assets, but details are sparse
US broker has opened office in Milan, Stockholm will be next
Investors should feel more confident when BNPL products are regulated like mainstream consumer credit
'Maybe in hindsight disintermediation would have worked better'
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
Barclays has appointed a former C-suite executive to run private side activities in its asset-backed finance group, following the departure of Cecile Hillary to become deputy treasurer at Lloyds Banking Group. -
The prospect of investors exerting real pressure on companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including divesting from big polluters, came a step closer on Wednesday with the release of the Net Zero Investment Framework, a map to guide investors on the journey to carbon neutrality.
-
Davy, the Irish brokerage firm, has shut its bond desk with immediate effect following a damning investigation by the Central Bank of Ireland which found a group of employees breached markets regulation for personal financial again over a period of two years.
-
Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, has reacted quickly by setting new targets to sell healthier food, less than a month after a group of shareholders filed a resolution calling for this — a sign of how sensitive companies are to having environmental, social and governance motions voted on at their annual general meetings.
-
Large US banks want the Federal Reserve to extend a measure allowing them to exclude Treasury bond exposures from their leverage ratio calculations. But other industry figures are pushing back. Senators have warned against the risks of letting temporary Covid support become more permanent.
-
In this round-up, smaller Chinese firms see the slowest growth in manufacturing and services activity since mid-2020, the head of the Chinese banking and insurance regulator is wary of bubbles bursting in foreign markets, and the onshore sale of the so-called ‘carbon neutrality bonds’ moves from the interbank market to the smaller exchange market.
