Agreement on backstop financing for sovereigns might buy time for fiscal adjustment to forestall a rash of defaults.

A liquidity squeeze in China has observers worrying that there’s trouble in store.

Belgium’s strained communal relations and ramshackle politics mean its financial problems could be fatal for the nation.

Growth is good for emerging economies but overheating is an ever-present danger. Governments are still failing to devise suitable cooling measures.

New S&P ranking claims serious shortfalls at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.

Last month, Euromoney attended a reception celebrating a landmark anniversary for one of China’s leading financial institutions. The event was held in an historic London building and was attended by several dignitaries and luminaries of the investment world.

What multinationals really want to know: when can we issue debt on the Chinese mainland?

The SEC’s regulatory interest in the market in private-company shares might cripple this source of funding.

Will South Africa join the growing club of interventionist central banks?

Corporates are still squirrelling away cash, so bond issuance has shrunk. When and how will the cash be put to work?

Banks might refuse to underwrite and distribute sovereign debt at risk of principal reduction.

Bondholder standoff on the cards at ailing Punch.

Inter-emerging markets deals are on the increase. Some global investment banks will be hard pressed to get a look-in.

Neither side appears to be gaining from Sino-foreign securities joint ventures.

Bank debt bail-ins have prompted fierce debate in the banking industry and among fund managers. Spend time in the company of a bank-funding official or an investor in bank debt and it doesn’t take long for them to get a little hot under the collar.

It’s good news for bondholders and shareholders that companies are awash with cash: it’s bad news for everyone that they can find nothing better to do with it than buy back their own shares.

Could lower interest rates give lift-off to Brazil’s economy? And how might they be achieved?

Banks’ competition to write mortgage business is putting pressure on Israel’s Green Line.

Issuers and underwriters are braced for more structured credit litigation.

Being a fixed-income investor in Europe just got a whole lot trickier.

A stand against foreclosures might be a vote winner but it has deleterious economic consequences.

Senior RMBS bondholders will pay the price from US mortgage chaos.

There’s rarely been a better time to be a mortgage banker in the US.

Investors should diversify into developed market companies with high emerging markets exposures to capture these economies’ growth.

A merger between the companies that own the Australian and Singapore exchanges is only a first step towards an integrated market.

The easy environment is pushing asset prices in Latin America to boiling point.

The cancellation of the Nedbank acquisition reflects badly on HSBC.

Gulf investment banking has hopes of staging a delayed recovery.

Moves to curb supposed speculation on futures exchanges are pointless populism, as commodity price spikes reflect physical market supply/demand factors.

The shocking disparity in distressed corporate valuations might serve to embolden junior claims on these companies.