The German development bank issued a pioneering electronic bond transaction with the help of Clearstream, who carried out the transaction on its D7 digital post-trade platform.
Direct lending, refinancing and quality placements are keeping busy the bank’s leveraged finance team, which recently took on six new underwrites.
The FCA has set out plans for a revival of the country’s equity capital markets post-Brexit.
The board member responsible for corporate clients, Michael Kotzbauer, talks about how the tough retrenchment process has left the German lender in a stronger position to weather further storms.
The world has reached a tipping point where the trend towards sustainability has become irreversible. But how can investment banks ensure that their clients are not ‘greenwashing’ to access funding?
Heads of digital assets at buy- and sell-side firms are busying themselves with digital bond issuances on their proprietary tokenisation platforms. But what is behind their newfound love for tokenising traditional financial assets?
Many banks are struggling to meet the deadline for adoption of ISO 20022 for cross-border payments.
The EU is just the first jurisdiction to require UPI reporting, with the UK, US and Australia also publishing mandates. Compliance deadlines will be swift to follow.
The first quarter results for both banks are in, but the value of what UBS has acquired remains to be seen.
Costa Rica expects to get off the EU grey list in October, says its finance minister.
The CEO of Carbonplace, a transaction network for carbon credits, says he has ‘the best job out there’.
The global head of Natixis Corporate and Investment Banking talks to Andrew MacDowall about navigating periods of market volatility and being an early mover in fast-growing areas.
The mining company aims to make its strategic mineral exploration operations an industry showcase in Greenland and around the world.
Nomura’s share of the Italian M&A market has expanded on the back of two developments: increased activity from financial sponsors and increased spending on energy infrastructure.
The central bank governors of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Guatemala dismiss concerns about increased financial volatility at the IDB.
Bank Indonesia’s latest move on credit cards is part of a multi-year strategy to reduce foreign influence in the country’s payment system.
Premier offshore banking centres are having difficulty reducing investor panic. What does this mean for smaller and newer locations such as Singapore or Dubai?
The German electricity transmission system operator navigated a volatile market environment to launch a €1.8bn green bond, the first of its kind for the company.
Italy is in the midst of a payments revolution. Joy Macknight gets the lowdown from CBI CEO Liliana Fratini Passi.
The co-heads of EMEA capital markets at Japan’s biggest bank outlines the division’s success in the hybrid capital debt space and areas of growth that they will look to capitalise on in 2023.