Ralph Sinclair

6 days ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair |Jon Hay |Frank Jackman |Mike Turner

We surveilled the SSA bond market this week and the development finance world to see what both made of US decisions about financial support for a number of international development funders. The result was relief but it was not unqualified, as we ponder what this may mean for US president Donald Trump's review into the country's involvement in international financial institutions. Meanwhile, banks are facing a stark choice about whether to raise covered bond funding or to do unsecured deals.

1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair

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1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair |Atanas Dinov |Jon Hay |Mike Turner

The wave of sustainability-linked bonds that were all the rage a few years ago are now reaching the point where their issuers' performance against their environmental KPIs is being judged. Two issuers this week have failed to meet their targets and will pay higher coupons as a result.

2 weeks ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair |Sarah E. Ainsworth |Arthur Bautzer |Jon Hay

The US administration gave some clues as to its beliefs on how the IMF and the World Bank should change their operations for the first time this week since president Donald Trump signed an executive order in February asking for a review into the country's involvement in international financial organisations. US treasury secretary Scott Bessant outlined at an event in Washington, DC to coincide with the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings his gripes with the two institutions.

4 weeks ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair |Jon Hay |Sarah E. Ainsworth |George Collard

This was supposed to be a decent year for banks in the debt and equity capital markets. But the uncertainty generated by a chaotic US tariff policy has wrecked investment banks' ability to plan and operate in their markets. We look at what is grinding the sell-side's gears and investigate how banks should navigate the volatility to meet their budgets. One area of the bond market where issuance has been slow to resume since the US first announced its new tariffs is the senior unsecured FIG market.