Sarah E. Ainsworth

1 day ago | globalcapital.com | Jon Hay |Sarah E. Ainsworth |Addison Gong |Atanas Dinov

The bland outpourings of ChatGPT could not be further from the penetrating, critical advice big companies, governments and investors want from investment banks. But could one foster the other? That is the ideal banks are striving for with a plethora of projects to use artificial intelligence — not for the hard stuff, they say, but for the easy stuff. Automating tiresome work like compiling presentations could free up time — especially for junior bankers.

5 days ago | globalcapital.com | Frank Jackman |Sarah E. Ainsworth

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1 week ago | globalcapital.com | Sarah E. Ainsworth |Atanas Dinov

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2 weeks ago | globalcapital.com | Ralph Sinclair |Jon Hay |Sarah E. Ainsworth |Atanas Dinov

A blip in Bloomberg's terminal services this week delayed bookbuilding on a number of syndications and bond auctions. It passed with seemingly little harm done. But it did reveal how dependent bond issuance and fixed income has become on the company's platform. We asked what would be at stake if there was a longer outage and what can be done to prevent major disruption. Meanwhile, rising US Treasury yields mean SSA bonds are trading at ever smaller spreads over them.

2 weeks ago | globalcapital.com | Sarah E. Ainsworth

It was 10 years ago when the European Commission first launched the Capital Markets Union action plan. Many unexpected twists and turns have occurred since then — the UK left the European Union, Donald Trump won two US presidencies, and Tottenham Hotspur scooped a major footballing trophy. Meanwhile, progress towards CMU has been painfully slow, though there has been the occasional victory.