Latin America’s markets are as good as anyone can remember. If you’re an issuer, that is. Investors are not celebrating.

The spillover from the proposed voiding of state guarantees on subordinate debt of Austria’s Hypo Alpe Adria could hit bonds of other banks across Europe.

Banks find the grass is greener with dedicated environmentally friendly bonds.

Iraq’s economic potential may be enticing regional and western banks to develop operations there but the rise of the jihadist group is cause for alarm.

Asia’s financial regulators need to wake up to the need for rules that suit the region’s markets

A dangerous liquidity mismatch is building up in large parts of the investor base for high-yield bonds

Hopes that Russian issuers can fund all their needs in Asia’s markets are likely to be misplaced. But it will become a more important market for them, sanctions or not.

“Sorted that allocation 4 u, big boy”. Is this the kind of email from a syndicate manager or fixed-income salesman at one of the leading bond underwriters to a favoured investor client that we can look forward to sniggering over?

Fears that African states have over-indulged in sovereign issuance are exaggerated.

Pork producer WH Group underwhelms as potential saviour of Hong Kong market.

High US tax rates on funds repatriated by big US multinationals are prompting them to raise debt rather than send money home

Does Swiss wealth management business really need an investment bank too?

Lloyds LME highlights potential risks to investors of early regulatory calls in the booming AT1 market

Russia’s adventures in Ukraine are adversely affecting its international issuance. And at home they will stifle ambitions to develop an international financial centre.

The previously expansionist bank needs to take a more modest, consolidating stance.

How hard will an emerging market portfolio get hit? Differentiation, not blind love, will tell.

Smaller buyers will have to be smart to beat the private equity giants in Europe’s great banking assets sell-off.

Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey have more in common than macroeconomic numbers.

As three UK banks issue profit warnings springing from litigation costs and mis-selling charges, it takes a newcomer to show the value of good customer service.

Chinese bank’s London purchase likely to be followed by other acquisitions in foreign markets.

The new corporate gatekeepers know how important they are, and are demanding more from their banks.

Competition and jeopardy are on the way back in EM debt issuance.

Investors, bankers and policymakers were caught off-guard in early 2014 as new depths of pessimism about emerging markets were plumbed.

Rental income from repossessed housing is the next big thing in securitization. It will also be the acid test of what, if anything, the market has learned over the last five years.

Private banks are in danger of losing a grip on what makes them attractive to the wealthy

Central and eastern Europe is attractive for private equity houses. But they need to get their priorities right.

Vital energy reforms could provide a welcome fiscal boost.

The markets didn’t quite ignore the rushed news of Deutsche Bank’s fourth-quarter 2013 €1.2 billion loss stemming from litigation charges, restructuring costs and weak performance in its fixed-income business. Sure, the shares fell 6.5%, but this came after a more than 20% rally from the middle of 2013. Investors might have contented themselves that, after stripping out all the accounting nonsense and the litigation one-offs, the underlying performance wasn’t too bad.

Surveys suggest that virtual currencies look a safer bet than local stocks and property.

The development of the cerrado into arable land will benefit Brazil far more than its oil discoveries.