North America

Green bond issuance slows in market turmoil, while social bonds offer means to finance Covid-19 responses.

Global cash managers are having to move fast and adapt solutions to support clients through the Covid-19 crisis.

The coronavirus Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the need to build better consumer financial resilience – bank efforts to support personal savings and debt reduction will have a greater impact than writing cheques.

Smaller asset managers and hedge funds that went into the cloud for trading may be better off than big banks that spent billions on proprietary server-based infrastructure.

With offices deserted across the world as coronavirus takes its toll, a virtual dataroom and online M&A software service company may be more relevant than ever

For a sector reeling from money laundering scandals, it’s tempting to imagine that technology could be a low-cost way of solving such problems. AI could be a game changer for detecting low-level crime, but corporate-scale laundromats will remain tough to crack.

Banks came into the coronavirus pandemic much stronger than they went into the global financial crisis, but will the capital and liquidity buffers they have built be sufficient to see them through the most dramatic economic crash in history?

Private lending vehicles that are structured to maximize fees are looking dangerously fragile, and mismarking of asset values could spark legal disputes.

The world’s community banks, credit unions and CDFIs have been taking concrete action to help their clients, communities and employees respond to the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis.

The Federal Reserve’s expanded bond buying commitment underscores that the safest hedge at the moment is a security that can be sold to a government.

Digital asset manager Wave Financial may have found just the right moment to launch its whiskey fund.

Warren Buffett can take his pick from public companies with beaten down stock prices at the moment, but he may be interested in buying privately held Bloomberg.

Investors, governments and central bankers are using new sources of data to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Fed has provided abundant financial support to the core government bond markets to little effect and may now need to ease rules on dealer banks.

In giving aid to the US, the Jack Ma Foundation has an important message for Trump: close borders to contain a virus, not to contain China.

The economic collapse now spreading as fast as the coronavirus requires credit channels to be kept open, but it needs precious funding to flow through them even more.

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?

True innovators look for new data points to predict delinquency, as traditional credit raters load more transaction history into their scoring models.

The move to treasury and trade solutions is designed to bring cash management and trade businesses closer together.

The government’s response to the lack of financial inclusion is to build thousands of new banks throughout the country, but it faces a big challenge in weaning potential customers away from the black economy.

P2P currency matching has had yet another makeover with the introduction of a service focusing on the swaps market rather than spot flow.

The cryptocurrency has surged in 2020, as investors worry that coronavirus-exposed equity and bond markets are set to crash.

It has taken the climate crisis to bring our collective focus onto the role of financing and the role of banks.

The big acquisition makes strategic sense as a bet on convergence between high net-worth financial advisory and self-directed trading, but M&A deals can founder on culture.

JPMorgan doesn’t do things by halves; it has just moved almost everyone at the top of its investment bank and created what amounts to an internal boutique.

Margin pressures on buy-side clients such as asset managers have prompted increased interest in outsourced FX solutions, but firms must know exactly what they are paying for.

Should spirituality be one of the lenses through which the wealthy manage their money? Faith-based investors certainly think so. Euromoney talks to funds and wealth advisers who believe that positive energy or religion-driven strategies can bring enhanced returns.

With Santander Brasil registering record profits and Santander Mexico promising the same, the outlook for the group looks Latin. As its European business stalls, how will the bank be affected by Latin America’s shift from engine of growth to core business?

The Federal Reserve’s current balance sheet expansion is handing trading profits to big banks.

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