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JP Morgan’s new Development Finance Institution (DFI) has been racking up its deal count during the coronavirus crisis. Its aim is to bring transparency and more investment to development finance in emerging markets, but some experts are doubtful about the project.

Nomura has cut jobs in its investment banking business in Europe over the summer, following losses in leveraged finance, as its new chief executive eyes up other regions for growth, writes David Rothnie.

Kim Balt, who led ING's equity syndicate desk for 18 years, has joined Avantium, a Dutch company that makes alternatives to plastics from plants.

Financial supervisors and regulators are too preoccupied with collecting research and data on environmental threats to finance and the economy, rather than simply using their own judgement and other tools at their disposal.

Barclays has hired Manuel Esteve from JP Morgan to lead its continental European equity capital markets business.

US citizens concerned about climate change may be hoping Joe Biden wins the presidency in November, but the issue is even more important for those in developing countries who face more immediate risks, and are relying on international finance to tackle these perils.

With the world’s most important asset managers taking a more active role in sovereign debt restructuring negotiations, the once niche topic of collective action clauses (CACs) is set to rise up the capital markets agenda as participants debate whether adjustments made by Argentina and Ecuador to the 2014 ICMA CACs should become common practice.

UBS reckons it has a hit upon a ‘unique formula’ for growth as it expands its investment banking offering to its high net worth clients, writes David Rothnie.

Hopes are rising that sustainable finance could blossom in the US if Joe Biden wins the presidency in November, replacing Donald Trump’s climate-sceptic administration with a new government, committed to the most ambitious set of environmental policies ever.

The Euro Short Term Rate may be running into the first real problem of its short life. The benchmark was designed to provide a reflection of wholesale euro overnight borrowing costs based on real transaction data. But what if there aren’t enough transactions?

Signs are growing that Western companies may be on the verge of a wave of moving manufacturing from China to other emerging markets and ‘re-shoring’ them to the home country, a trend that could have profound implications for markets and international politics.

The European Commission has reached out to the European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) to make the case for reinvigorating the market for European Secured Notes. ESNs could improve access to crucial funding for Europe’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are struggling to recover following lockdowns imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19.