Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinion
Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinion
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Endoxa bank consortium tries to make sense of position-reporting rules
Building a consensus approach that avoids a steady stream of small fines for misreporting long and short stock positions may be a new model for joint action on regulation. -
Private equity and credit funds tap private wealth in new initiative
BlackRock joins Allfunds initiative to distribute new variants of private equity and credit funds to wealthy individuals. -
Krupa’s grand plan for SocGen launches with a whimper
Despite tweaks to improve efficiency, Societe Generale’s new strategy has received a lukewarm reception. New CEO Slawomir Krupa has lifted the capital target, but revenues will remain flat, and there is a lack of news on asset sales. -
Lloyds sees first fruits of capital markets strategy
Bankers at Lloyds say that progress in FX, fixed income and structured finance this year reflects chief executive Charlie Nunn’s strategy for targeted growth in corporate and institutional banking. -
‘Liquidity is still credit’: FX pros debate how to lend better
Market participants have welcomed recent moves to enhance FX liquidity by increasing the efficiency of credit payments for trades. -
Private credit bridges the lending gap as banks pull back
Borrowers that financed cheaply in 2021 will soon hit a maturity wall. Many will struggle to refinance at higher cost. Some will default. Private credit managers – still magnets for institutional capital – are set to step in and bridge some of the financing gap left by the banks. -
The long goodbye: How Libor ended and why the arguing hasn’t
Financial market practitioners might be forgiven for reflecting on a job well done now that the final Libor panel has ended its submissions. The journey has been immense, but the focus is turning to loose ends, including the argument that just won’t go away: is there a place for credit-sensitive rates in a post-Libor world? -
Commodities are a hedging challenge for corporates
Overall volatility in commodities markets may have dropped from the highs of last year, but uncertainty in specific sectors continues to put pressure on corporate hedging strategies. -
How debt and geopolitics made a lethal mix for development
After years of easy Eurobond access and ramped-up Chinese lending, developing economies are now caught between rising interest rates and geopolitical tensions, making debt restructurings more numerous and more complicated. Despite some progress in inter-creditor talks, many debtor nations face an uncertain financial future. -
Is this the private equity cycle for Brazilian private banking?
Private bankers are eyeing PE and venture capital investments as digital platforms emerge in Brazil, but personal advisory remains critical. -
Rising Asia replaces falling China in M&A bankers’ sights
Outbound Chinese M&A deal-flow has slowed to a crawl even as inbound activity remains steady. So focus in the region is moving elsewhere: to rising India, steady-and-lucrative Australia and even Japan, where once-bloated conglomerates are streamlining portfolios under intense pressure from activist shareholders. -
777 Partners joins US investors chasing big returns in football
The investment firm founded by securitization experts in 2015 has grown to an $8 billion portfolio of 60 companies without managing any third-party funds and still sees big potential returns, notably in football clubs, from applying the discipline of structured finance to operating businesses. -
Inflation-linked borrowers feel the pain as ‘natural hedge’ stutters
Thames Water has become the highest profile example of a UK corporation that finds itself hamstrung by inflation-linked bonds issued at a time when persistent high inflation and economic stagnation seemed unlikely bedfellows. -
Corporates find private placements an appealing option
Accessing funds via debt capital or private placement may seem like an onerous task, but a growing number of corporates see it as an opportunity to mitigate the impact of changes to bank-capital deployment. -
Can a new Ukrainian DFI get off the ground?
BlackRock, JPMorgan and McKinsey are working on plans for a new development finance institution focused on Ukraine’s reconstruction. The project has already had to temper some ambitions, but its advisers still hope it can propel flows of private-sector money to Ukraine in years to come. -
Is agribusiness turning Brazil’s banks inward?
Trade and currency wars have boosted Brazil’s agribusiness sector in the past couple of years. Higher prices for soft commodities have, however, accelerated a trend that has been noticeable for many years: the country’s inward focus. -
Hidroelectrica shows IPO market wide open for good companies at fair value
At €1.9 billion, international investors would happily have bought all of Europe’s biggest IPO since Porsche – even on the illiquid Bucharest stock exchange. -
Africa needs equity capital to drive its digital transformation
What African fintechs need is supportive regulation, local capital and the development of talent. Singapore wants to show them the way.
Row 2 - Long Reads
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Working together, regulated banks and direct lenders may prevent the coming default cycle from turning into a full-blown credit crunch.
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Banks and investors opposed to European Union derivatives clearing plans have made an astonishing charge: the EU is worse than the US in jealously guarding its own markets.
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A debate in Australia arguing for the liquidation of the sovereign wealth fund has relevance to the global fund community.
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HKEx chief executive Nicolas Aguzin opened the group’s latest new office in London on Wednesday. His aim: to get more global firms to IPO in Hong Kong and convince investors to put money to work there. But against the backdrop of China’s economic situation, his team will have its work cut out.
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China is having a shocker of a year. Growth has stalled, deflation is back and global firms are moving production elsewhere as they de-risk from China to boost supply-chain resiliency. FDI is down sharply and exports are sinking. Just as Brexit reshaped the UK’s relationship with the world, has Covid done the same for China?
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Good things could be in store for Libya if harmony at the central bank spreads to the government and sovereign fund.
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Tottenham Hotspur’s Joe Lewis was indicted for insider trading just before yen volatility presented an opportunity for profitable currency dealing.
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Thirty percent of Singapore sovereign fund’s portfolio is in private equity or real estate. Surely this is as good as it gets for private markets.
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Goldman Sachs is losing a key executive in the very business it is relying on to turn the firm's fortunes around.
