Banks are finding it difficult to keep pace with the fraudsters.

High inflation, rising interest rates and low office space utilisation rates following the Covid-19 pandemic have dented the outlook for the commercial real estate sector.

After many years in the shadow of the UAE, Saudi Arabia’s start-up and venture capital ecosystem is growing rapidly.

The UK needs to focus on supporting companies in a range of diverse sectors.

Seven years after the Panama Papers, the country is still on Gafilat’s grey list for deficiencies in combatting money laundering.

The German development bank issued a pioneering electronic bond transaction with the help of Clearstream, who carried out the transaction on its D7 digital post-trade platform. 

Direct lending, refinancing and quality placements are keeping busy the bank’s leveraged finance team, which recently took on six new underwrites. 

The FCA has set out plans for a revival of the country’s equity capital markets post-Brexit. 

The board member responsible for corporate clients, Michael Kotzbauer, talks about how the tough retrenchment process has left the German lender in a stronger position to weather further storms. 

The world has reached a tipping point where the trend towards sustainability has become irreversible. But how can investment banks ensure that their clients are not ‘greenwashing’ to access funding?