Central bank support has helped keep markets open for high yield issuance and avoided fire sale of downgraded assets. 

Suptech may one day enable supervisors to detect looming financial crises and eliminate them.

Recommendations seek to take advantage of Hong Kong’s decline as a financial centre.

Total sovereign exposure at private sector lenders has risen this year on back of weak loan demand.

Rise in carry trades could reinforce trend that contributed to European sovereign debt crisis, warns Fitch.

Momentum behind introducing FTTs has been revived by the hugely damaging economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic leaving financial institutions worried.

Financial Stability Board consultation reveals deep divisions in financial sector over who should pay when clearing house fails with big losses. 

Richard Hudson, chief executive officer at First National Bank Ghana, discusses the country’s expanding investment banking sector and the impact of new capital regulations