Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Amid growing calls for a big increase in finance for ocean protection, blue bonds have emerged as a potentially crucial means of mobilising capital. Here is what you need to know about this nascent asset … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s Monday morning so let’s get this done. Grating American roast voice: Wow, FT Alphaville writes about Bank of England QT so much. Forget Unhedged, they should launch a newsletter called Unreserved! . . . It’s been … Read more
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Brazil is hoping to sell its first sovereign debt in the Chinese market as soon as this year, as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looks to strengthen trade and investment ties with the Asian superpower. The leftwing administration in Brasília is planning the so-called panda bond — debt issued in Chinese renminbi by a … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US state and local governments are selling municipal bonds at a record pace on fears that Congress could partially pay for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by cutting a tax break for … Read more
Syria will be fully reconnected to the Swift international payment system “in a matter of weeks”, the country’s new central bank governor said, relinking the country to the global economy after 14 years of war and sanctions that rendered it a pariah state. The return of Swift is the first major milestone in the new … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is calling for urgent reform of Europe’s capital markets including harmonised tax, insolvency and supervisory rules to ensure the continent does not fall further behind the US and Asia … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are hell-bent on steering more pension money into private markets. The Trump administration is considering an order that would open up American employees access to private markets through … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hedge funds are circling more than a dozen distressed companies in France, as a string of economic shocks pushes growing numbers of businesses towards painful restructurings. Restructuring advisers and distressed debt investors said they were … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. For the past month or more, overnight interest rates in Hong Kong have been stuck just above zero per cent. Since everyone got used to ultra-low interest rates during the last couple of decades, it may … Read more