Mike Turner

1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair |Sarah E. Ainsworth |Tom Hall |Mike Turner

If you only consumed mainstream news, the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran — and potentially the US — might lead you to assume that such global turmoil would make it a bad time to be issuing debt. But if you only observed the capital markets to the exclusion of all wider news, you'd be forgiven for thinking the world was a stable, peaceful and certain place. Issuance in credit markets has boomed even as the prospect of a wider war ramped up this week.

1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Mike Turner

Emerging market investing inherently has traditionally held a far wider array of risks than buying into developed markets and investors there have needed to block out a lot of headline noise in order to gather enough conviction to put money to work. But the same could now be said for developed markets too. War has broken out in the Middle East, with Israel and Iran trading volleys of missiles. The threat of US participation will escalate the situation from being a regional conflict.

1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Mike Turner

Enthusiasts for the eurozone's capital markets are excited that the US's whipsawing trade policies might be bringing the dollar's overwhelming dominance of global financial markets to an end. That is wishful thinking. But even if euro markets can nibble at the edges of dollar hegemony, it will be a huge win for euro bonds.

1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Mike Turner

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2 weeks ago | globalcapital.com | Mike Turner

More high grade corporates printed European Green Bonds this week, but the slow take up for the new top tier standard in green bonds suggests it is difficult for most companies to break into. This is not a bad thing. The new European Green Bond Standard (EuGB) came into being in December last year as a European Commission project. It is a voluntary standard for green bond issuers to align their use of proceeds with the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities.