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Siong Ooi, MUFG Bank’s co-head of debt capital markets, loans and bonds, has relocated to Sydney from Singapore. -
HSBC has become the latest bank to create a dedicated team for sustainable finance amid the coronavirus crisis. This is part of a new strategic solutions group, which will also house two other solutions units: one for corporate finance, and one for financial institutions and capital.
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The double whammy of coronavirus and a crisis at the top of the bank makes the most testing of times for the new head of Commerzbank’s corporate clients division to make his mark. But Roland Boekhout has a broad vision for the firm’s corporate and investment bank and ideas for how to implement it, writes David Rothnie.
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Several companies boasting Big Four accounting firms as auditors have emerged as fraudulent, leading many to wonder what value auditors bring to an investors' understanding of a company. The big issue is that auditors have little obligation to detect fraud at companies they audit, and neither it seems does anyone else. Until they do, investors need to stop believing a Big Four sign-off is a seal of approval. In fact, for a system supposedly built with its own reputation in mind, developed markets have offered investors very little protection.
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The syndicated loan market is facing a schism in the way it deals with the transition away from Libor — and unless the famously ponderous market starts to co-ordinate fast, fissures will keep appearing as different regions stick by their favoured replacement benchmark rates.
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Short sellers who for years have complained that BaFin, the German financial markets regulator, ignored their criticisms of Wirecard, the collapsed payments company, and instead prosecuted the critics, have begun to be vindicated with the news that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a review into the organisation. By Silas Brown.
