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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 Panama Papers may be making UK politicians fall over one another to print their tax returns, but those at the top of the banking industry should be concerned about becoming the next to be under scrutiny.
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Market participants have reacted positively to the creation of a new privately-backed fund in Italy, which will support the recapitalisation of struggling banks and reduce the country’s huge stock of bad loans. -
Over the past 15 years UK banks have set aside over £53bn to pay for their misconduct, according to a report published on Monday, with the end nowhere in sight.
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Investors have been loading up on higher yielding long term corporate bonds, in spite of the asset class's average credit rating having declined in recent years.
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Four banks have teamed up with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Markit, and Axoni, a distributed ledger technology firm, to undertake the market’s first test of a blockchain solution for managing single name credit default swap post-trade events.
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Indonesia is set to introduce new tax breaks for real estate investment trusts and could push through other reforms in a bid to get the asset class going. But even as local property owners have begun to mull plans to push their real estate into Reits, there are still kinks that need to be ironed out. John Loh reports.
