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Europe’s self-proclaimed investment banking champions are playing to their strengths, but remain far behind US peers
After quitting M&A and equity capital markets in Europe and the US last year, HSBC is striving to maintain global relevance — and London and New York still have a role to play
Deal raises questions about whether transaction was done at arm's length
Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
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The pressure is on market participants and regulators to up their green game, as November’s COP22 conference in Monaco November approaches. Stakeholders will want to get as much done as they can to define green bonds before governments get involved.
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The United States has unseated the United Kingdom from its long dominance of over-the-counter interest rate swaps (IRS) trading, according to an industry report this week. -
In concert with Thursday’s roll out of margin rules for uncleared swaps, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has gone live with an industry standard model to calculate initial margin on uncleared derivatives trades.
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Even with the flood of bankers leaving banks to join the fintech revolution — in which it seems every move has some mind-blowing potential impact on the future of finance — former Royal Bank of Scotland banker Richard Bartlett’s move to start-up ‘social impact’ short-term lender Uberima is unique.
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Singapore is pushing ahead with plans for a dual class share structure, giving it an edge over Hong Kong for the next big technology IPO. But markets watchers warn that progress will take time.
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The World Bank broke a 30 year silence in special drawing rights (SDR) bonds with the sale of a SDR500m ($700m) three year note in China on Wednesday. While the Mulan bond is widely seen as a symbolic gesture to promote the internationalisation of the renminbi, market participants said it is more than that, in spite of the relatively narrow investor base. Paolo Danese and Rev Hui report.
