Investors are showing their nerves in the CDS market.

The Russian aluminium company’s stock market debut seemed ill-fated from the start.

The fate of Vietnam’s ambitious $1 billion bond deal will tell us much about bond investors’ real risk appetites.

Banks are starting to assess the need to risk weight sovereign debt holdings.

European banks will seek to gain an advantage if global regulations can be agreed.

The resolution of rating agency treatment could mean corporate hybrids return in 2010.

Central American country’s economy robust despite global downturn.

Western bankers have overestimated opportunities and underestimated risks in hydrocarbon-exporting nations.

This economic downturn is long past the point where banks might normally have started waxing lyrical about their commitment to relationship banking. Anticipating the end of past down cycles and sensing good opportunities ahead to lend, banks would already have tried to appeal to new customers by promising to stick with them through bad times such as those recently endured as well as the good.

The US bank’s succession planning is turning into a bad joke. But it still has time to get the punchline right by looking outside for its next leader.

The bank’s results reveal the benefits, and not the drawbacks, of mixing retail and wholesale banking.

Brazil’s government is a victim of its own economic success.

When everyone agrees everything’s alright, we’ve a classic sign of a bubble.

The US authorities’ approach to curbing bankers’ remuneration is ill-judged and inequitable.

DDR and Fortress provide a glimmer of hope for commercial real estate.

A glut of IPOs and bank capital demands means treasurers and investors alike need to steer carefully in giddy Asia.

News that the state-owned company has asked for a credit standstill badly damages the emirate’s reputation.

The Asian state’s leaders should be wary of the impact of international scrutiny on its private banking industry.

Uncertainty is growing over the scope and scale of restructuring plans to be imposed by the EU Competition Commission on European banks that have been kept alive by state aid.

The European high-yield market may finally have come of age.

Banks now busy negotiating debt-for-equity swaps in their distressed investments could actually be making their problems worse.

Economic conditions may appear to be easing, but the region’s biggest challenges still lie ahead.

Wall Street bankers think the capital market boom is the new normal. We’re not so sure.

How much does the Kingdom care about foreign investment?

China sceptics think a dangerous asset bubble could be building.

The Swiss bank needs to make a real commitment to the key Latin market, or give up the ghost.

Lloyds’ bumper RMBS is good news but it doesn’t fix the market.

HSBC moves its chief executive to Asia not a moment too soon, as it seeks to grow earnings while international banks pull back.

A worrying trend has surfaced in emerging markets as volatility hit China’s hedging contracts.

Calderón needs tougher measures to solve the fiscal deficit problem.