Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela exemplify LatAm’s diverse risk metrics
Latin American economic extremes: Uruguay is flying high while Venezuela is facing a backlash Enjoying more favourable economic conditions on the back of recovering commodity prices, LatAm’s average risk score has improved on an annual basis, bolstered by upgrades to...
Devil in the detail in Singapore-Malaysia link
Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak A new plan to link up trading between Singapore and Malaysia’s stock markets could be important. Attempts to forge links between Asean exchanges are nothing new, though rarely successful, but the success of links between...
Barclays: Staley stays the course
What should be the verdict on Jes Staley? At one point the Barclays chief executive appeared to be lurching from one crisis to another, whether it was falling for an email prankster pretending to be his chairman or taking it...
Viceroy’s traction is Ramaphosa’s challenge
South Africa’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa Viceroy Research is little more than a blog, a googlemail account and a handful of connections in the hedge fund world. But the activist short seller has managed to make some noise in another...
Latvian banking: let there be light
It is easy for journalists to preach transparency. It is, after all, almost always in their interests. For bankers and policymakers, things are often not as clear cut. In a system where wrongdoing is widespread, a serious clean-up will have...
FICC trading heads not celebrating yet
Higher volatility in the first two months, driven by uncertainty about the pace of Federal Reserve interest rate rises this year and next, has been exactly the kind that banks like best: sufficient to provoke a revival in volume of...
Brazil’s devilish future?
Former president Luiz Lula da Silva at a recent rally The most striking feature of one of January’s biggest news story was the feigned surprise. No, not the exposure of the horrible and sexist goings-on at the President’s Club in...
Goldman back in the 1MDB swamp after Leissner and Ng charges
The charges unsealed by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) around the 1MDB scandal on Thursday drag Goldman Sachs right back into the mire it has spent the past few years deftly escaping. It’s not just the fact that two...
BNPP and French ECM: a tough year gets a bit better
The latest French government sale of shares in engine-maker Safran could not have come at a better time for BNP Paribas, which has got some serious work to do if it wants to get close to the top of the...
Sustainable finance: Do we have to reinvent the wheel?
When it comes to finding private-sector financing solutions for social and environmental challenges, do we need to reinvent the wheel? I’m beginning to wonder. For example, Gary Kleiman, who runs an emerging markets analysis and advisory firm, has been arguing...
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