Governments should give investors what they need and issue inflation-linked bonds.

Family disputes in Asian listed companies have an unfortunate propensity to boil over unresolved into the public arena, raising important corporate governance issues.

Panic over the state of Fannie and Freddie may have been overplayed, but more transparency over their role in US housing should be welcomed.

Markets have changed and so will the terms for Mexico’s next round of toll road financing.

The role of the European Central Bank as the saviour of the European securitization market over the last year is not even up for debate.

The audience fell silent as they listened to his advice: don’t buy things you don’t understand; if you wouldn’t buy something, don’t sell it to anyone else; and don’t lend money to customers you don’t know.

The strong performance of BBVA and Santander can’t mask the impact of a looming housing crash on domestic institutions.

HBOS is struggling. That’s why its stock price is depressed and its rights issue came close to disaster.

In-house hedge funds look to have been a costly mistake for investment banks. Far better, it seems, is to take stakes in independent ones.

Appetite for distressed ABS is not nearly sufficient to mop up supply.

The belief that Libor is an actual rate at which banks lend substantial money to one another is a façade that the credit crunch has torn down with a vengeance.

The biggest retailers will regret having been blind to opportunities in emerging Europe.

We could be living through the last days of the independent investment banks.

Institutional investment in commodity markets is boon not bane.

Changes in domestic market conditions are making borrowing abroad the most attractive option for Chilean banks and corporates.

Tight spreads and a lack of differentiation between issuers are things of the past in the covered bond markets. But perhaps this is more “normal” than the bull market situation.

The departure of Andre Esteves from UBS need not be a big setback for the Swiss bank’s fortunes in Brazil.

A rights issue boom means investment banks have bizarrely profited from their failures.

Revelations on Moody’s mis-rating of CPDOs could be the most damaging yet.

Asian investment banking thrives despite woes in Europe and the US.

The region’s importance could mean more banking officials relocating there.

HBOS deserves the gratitude of its rivals for its attempt at a UK RMBS benchmark, but it may prove futile in the short term.

Growing concerns about another default need to be assuaged quickly by the government.

Falling corporate cash levels show the credit crunch is starting to bite.

A commodity boom masks fundamental problems in the Brazilian economy, observers argue.

A reduction in foreign capital flows means that many banks in eastern Europe are indirect victims of the credit crunch.

UBS has done a service to all investors in bank stocks and bonds by making public the report requested by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission into the root causes of its sub-prime losses.

Freeing up markets would help the country lose its tag as the poor man of Latin America.

Does the EC need to force clarity on clearing?

The crisis suggests that privately owned banks are not self-evidently better managed nor more effective at allocating capital than state-owned ones.