India's national ID and financial inclusion system creates the rails on which food and financial aid can reach some of the most vulnerable in society. But its rigidity in a crisis is a weakness.

Weight a business towards structured products, and life can quickly get uncomfortable.

For European banks, the tensions between communities, supervisors and shareholders needs careful navigation.

The sustainable finance movement needs to manage the risk to its reputation, as Jeff Gibbs highlights in his documentary.

The German constitutional court wants limits on ECB sovereign bond buying when the real question is whether it can do enough to stave off sovereign defaults.

Debt relief will free up essential funds but could be more punitive than helpful.

Accounting standards that make banks provision upfront for all expected loan losses are encouraging exactly what regulators don’t want to happen at this stage of the coronavirus crisis.

Negotiations are already under way between new lenders playing the loan-to-own strategy against stressed portfolio companies in rival managers’ private equity funds.

Breathless reporting of the details of the Argentine government’s offer to bondholders tends to presuppose there is doubt in the outcome.

Revolvers could be the debt Achilles heel of cash-strapped corporates.

Peru’s laudable coronavirus emergency measures won’t prevent its banks from taking a substantial hit – so what does that mean for less-well-run economies?

Central bank corporate credit support is helping to cut debt costs for borrowers such as Netflix. A government put option won’t cure all the problems looming in the credit markets, however.

Bank balance sheets are ballooning and regulators are just fine with that.

It’s hard to blame anyone for looking for bright spots in these difficult times.

China is pushing back against claims it could have done more to combat Covid-19; it could help itself by being more open about who owes it money – and clamping down on corporate shenanigans at home.

Even banks with resilient technology must think differently about how to make their systems fit for the years after the coronavirus panic fades.

Central banks in emerging Europe have started buying local government bonds in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Has quantitative easing arrived in the region? And, if so, will it work?

Just when SSA bankers were getting used to a market supportive of deals again, Germany has surprised them with a change of approach.

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.

The number of cashless transactions is rising as the coronavirus pandemic limits the use of physical cash.

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It is hardly surprising that the terms of the World Bank’s pandemic bond have attracted criticism.

The transition from Libor must be delayed to avoid pressuring coronavirus-damaged markets.

Coronavirus Covid-19 knows no borders, but the economic support packages being put in place sadly do.

Proof of the Swedish supervisor’s mettle raises questions about the Danish response to money laundering.

It might be too much to say the country was bouncing back before Covid-19 struck, but it was beginning to look a bit better. Not now though.

Most European residential mortgage-backed securities deals can absorb the hit from payment moratoria for now, but junior notes are at risk if the crisis persists.

Essential state support programmes for bank credit to SMEs raise questions about sovereign debt sustainability that need quick and credible answers.

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

The new government’s decision to go after Mercado Libre has the sector worried.