Recommendations of the Liikanen Report appear to have been generally accepted as best practice, but banks still need to re-evaluate their governance practices.
Is your bank stuck with a legacy system? Then you’ve only got yourself to blame.
Since raising its maximum maturity to 60 years in late 2012, the UK debt management office has issued three times beyond the 50-year mark.
A Slovenian privatisation process involving 14 different selling entities provided Houlihan Lokey's corporate finance team with a delicate challenge when helping a potential Austrian buyer.
With so much change afoot it is not yet clear if new technologies and digitalisation have completely revolutionised the fundamental banking model or simply tweaked it.
Morgan Stanley has won repeat business from issuers for a number of European accelerated bookbuild transactions, which require the most careful pricing and timing to complete successfully.
The days of competitive auctions are long gone, and Jefferies needed in-depth company knowledge and the ability to arrange a financing package to help bring CVC Capital Partners and online payments firm Skrill together.
Regulators' national focus risks hurting global financial markets.
Greece is finally starting to deliver on its IMF reform programme, but it will need help to ease the official debt burden.
Lars Millberg, head of transaction banking at SEB's merchant banking division, discusses the importance of innovation, and describes the bank's unique approach to encouraging out-of-the-box thinking among its employees.
In the past 18 months, RBS has been building out its hybrid issuance capacity, making new hires and reaching out to the largest investors. Its efforts started to pay off in 2013, when the bank notched up a number of mandates in the first six months of the year.
All the talk surrounding big data is getting old; it is time for companies to step up and show what they can actually do with it.
Investors are wary of Argentina, but if the country is to address its $95bn default, it needs to foster international relations.
Emerging markets – once the darlings of international bond investors amid low yields and paltry growth in the developed world – now seem a lot less enticing.
The first yen issue for Slovakia since 1994, a debut Finnish non-sovereign samurai bond deal and a growing number of dollar mandates are raising the profile of the debt capital markets team at Japan's Daiwa
The availability of big data in the finance world has gone beyond the big banks, and as other financial institutions receive this information, a whole new set of arguments are set to be heard.
Fanfare over recent results from US investment banks belies the reality that Wall Street’s heyday has passed.
Facebook, often seen as an inconvenience at best by banks, and a bogeyman at worst, is finally being embraced by a handful of lenders, with India's ICICI leading the way.
Credit Suisse oversaw a combined rights issue, share placement, bond issue and loan renegotiation to rebuild client Thomas Cook from a near-default experience.
The growth of China's banks, into the world's largest and most profitable institutions, is not necessarily a good thing for the country.