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  • Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.
  • Worries about bond market liquidity went from specialist interest to global best-seller in 2015. The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve published extensively on liquidity problems in bonds; European politicians lost their appetite for regulation, fearful about doing further damage to the frail but crucial animal spirits of the bond markets. But the last year saw precious little done to solve the problem. Owen Sanderson asks whether 2016 will be better.
  • A member of Mizuho International’s bond syndicate team has left the firm.
  • The Inter-American Development Bank has appointed a new treasurer, Francisco Ramón Ruiz García, who is to start the role on April 1.
  • The global head of debt capital markets for financial institutions and public sector issuers at Natixis has left the bank.
  • Moody’s has boosted South Korea's credit rating by one notch to Aa2, thanks to the country's robust credit strength and its commitment to structural reforms.