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Louise Bowman

Editor

Louise Bowman is Editor. She joined Euromoney in March 2006 and appointed deputy editor in 2014 and editor in 2020. Louise has worked for Euromoney in London and New York and also spent several years in Hong Kong writing for Asiamoney.

Recent Articles

TREASURY

Digitalization invites new funding sources for global trade

HSBC’s global head of trade finance talks about how the bank has built 'the trade finance platform for the future'.

Louise Bowman, March 17, 2023
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

The world’s best investment bank 2022: Goldman Sachs – all for one and one for all

The businesses for which Goldman Sachs is most renowned dominated investment banking last year – but so much else is going on. The firm is enjoying the pay-off from a long effort to expand middle-market coverage and has successfully built a transaction banking platform from scratch that it can now scale up.

Peter Lee, July 14, 2022
CAPITAL MARKETS

Research provision hits digital inflection point

Unbundling hits European research provision as providers grapple with transparency and valuation.

Louise Bowman, November 23, 2020
OPINION

Has the time come for public wealth funds?

As sovereigns around the world rack up record deficits, better management of public assets could be the answer.

Louise Bowman, October 29, 2020
TREASURY

Goldman takes on transaction banking

Goldman Sachs has launched its transaction services business in the US, trusting that its superior tech will be enough to beat the incumbents.

Louise Bowman, July 03, 2020
OPINION

Bricks and mortar retail is living on borrowed time

The long lines that have appeared outside reopened retail stores will not be enough to stave off the inevitable crisis in commercial real estate.

Louise Bowman, June 18, 2020
CAPITAL MARKETS

Loans: Crunch time for credit

Central bank intervention has delayed the deluge of insolvency that Covid-19 lockdowns will cause, but it can only plug the dike for so long. Lenders face the grim prospect of deciding who to save and who to let go.

Louise Bowman, May 20, 2020
OPINION

RCFs: Maxing out your credit is always very expensive

Revolvers could be the debt Achilles heel of cash-strapped corporates.

Louise Bowman, April 28, 2020
CAPITAL MARKETS

How portfolio trading is transforming the bond markets

Volumes more than doubled in March; before the coronavirus crisis hit, Euromoney spoke to market participants about why portfolio trading will transform bond market liquidity.

Louise Bowman, April 03, 2020
OPINION

RMBS and coronavirus: Holidays from hell

Most European residential mortgage-backed securities deals can absorb the hit from payment moratoria for now, but junior notes are at risk if the crisis persists.

Louise Bowman, March 26, 2020
CAPITAL MARKETS

Covid-19 sends the corporate bond market – and everyone else – home

Not only were corporate deals done last week, but they were done with most people being at home. This is the new normal for at least the next couple of months.

Louise Bowman, March 23, 2020
CAPITAL MARKETS

Coronavirus: Will ETFs go from liquidity zero to hero and back again in market volatility?

UPDATED March 20: Corporate bond market volatility returned with a vengeance in early March as the coronavirus struck. Will the growth in ETFs, together with advances in portfolio trading, mean the market is better able to cope with crisis than before?

Louise Bowman, March 11, 2020
OPINION

NPL specialists beware: Greece is not Italy

Distressed buyers could face a labour of Hercules in establishing projected recoveries for Greece’s new NPL securitization scheme.

Louise Bowman, February 20, 2020
ESG

One size does not fit all, so investors need to work harder on ESG strategies

Markets need more sophisticated measurement criteria to cope with the surge in demand for ESG integration.

Louise Bowman, January 31, 2020
OPINION

Libor: Banks must jump before they are pushed

Banks must prove to the increasingly impatient regulators that they have got Libor transition under control, or face costly consequences down the line.

Louise Bowman, January 21, 2020
FINTECH

Citi and YieldStreet announce partnership to spur retail investment in alternative assets

Partnership with digital investor platform is the latest move by bank’s Sprint fintech team.

Louise Bowman, January 08, 2020
CAPITAL MARKETS

ETF portfolio trades could be the answer to the credit market’s liquidity concerns

Exchange-traded funds (ETF) replication together with growing automation could be set to transform bond market liquidity.

Louise Bowman, December 20, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

CLO market: Corporate distress? Bring it on

It is an almost unchallenged truth that the next crisis will be triggered by over-leveraged corporate borrowers crumbling under the weight of cheap debt that they have taken on over the last decade. Right in the middle of this are the CLO buyers that have made much of that lending possible. But rather than taking fright at the prospect of a slew of triple-C credits in their pools, CLO managers are running straight towards it.

Louise Bowman, December 13, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

It’s securitization, but not as we knew it

The dynamics of the US securitization market have changed beyond recognition, while the role of banks in ABS has evolved too. The excesses of the past have gone and securitization is now a safe and reliable funding tool for consumer lending. So why don’t banks want to talk up their role in the market?

Louise Bowman, December 04, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

Securitization: Banks face up to student loans time bomb

Concern is again growing over unsustainable lending to over-leveraged borrowers, financing vastly overpriced assets that are subsequently securitized; only this time it isn’t mortgages – it’s student loans.

Louise Bowman, December 04, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

Securitization: RMBS gears up for windfall

A deep and sustainable private-label RMBS market has always eluded the US thanks to the insuperable competitive advantage enjoyed by the GSEs; that could change if plans to remove these guarantees for higher-risk mortgages go ahead.

Louise Bowman, December 04, 2019
OPINION

US RMBS: Is non-QM the new sub-prime?

The US private label RMBS market is set to surge if Fannie and Freddie stop guaranteeing higher debt-to-income mortgages in 2021, but eager investors should approach the sector with care.

Louise Bowman, November 06, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

ABS to test Cagney’s blockchain revolution

The SoFi co-founder’s second act involves eliminating ‘rent seekers’ from the capital markets. Securitizing blockchain-originated loans will go some way towards demonstrating if it can be done.

Louise Bowman, October 28, 2019
ESG

ESG: BlackRock 'breaks new ground' with circular economy fund

Partnership with Ellen MacArthur Foundation aims to raise awareness of circular opportunity in financial sector.

Louise Bowman, October 09, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

Libor transition: Are markets ready for a $350 trillion white-knuckle ride?

It is less than two and a half years until Libor, the benchmark on which trillions of dollars-worth of financial instruments are based, will disappear. That is a hopelessly ambitious timetable in which to complete what has been called the largest financial engineering project in history. Even if chaos is averted, the way in which banks lend, and indeed how corporates borrow, may never be the same again.

Louise Bowman, September 10, 2019
BANKING

Libor transition: Between a rock and a hard place

Banks are caught in the middle of regulatory pressure from above and corporate inertia from below when it comes to transitioning away from Libor, but they are the lynchpin on which the whole process depends.

Louise Bowman, September 10, 2019
ESG

ESG: Products need to walk the walk on sustainability metrics

Establishing clear criteria, and sticking to them, are key to successful ESG investing.

Louise Bowman, August 27, 2019
CAPITAL MARKETS

More than 300 European firms have lost all sell-side coverage since Mifid II

European firms are looking in-house and building up more engaged buy-side analyst teams themselves, according to new research.

Louise Bowman, August 21, 2019
OPINION

Libor: Sonia and Sofr need term rates too

The regulators want overnight rates to become the norm in all markets after Libor – that could be wishful thinking.

Louise Bowman, August 07, 2019
OPINION

Bonds: From high yield to below yield

Negative yields on sub-investment grade bonds is a worrying development.

Louise Bowman, July 18, 2019

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