Structured products investment is becoming more mobile, with investors looking to new regions for higher returns. European and Japanese markets have proved enticing over the last year or so, while China is moving ever closer to releasing its full potential as an investor destination.
Latest articles from Michael Watt
Top 1000 World Banks – Capital ratios fall among soundest banks
June 30, 2015As capital adequacy ratios show a decrease, Nederlandse Waterschapsbank unseats Banco Original at the top of the BIS ratio table, while Franklin Resources takes the capital assets ration leading position from National Reserve Bank.
Top 1000 World Banks – Struggling South Africa still out in front in Africa
June 29, 2015The difficulties of the South African economy are reflected in its banks' performances in the 2015 Top 1000 ranking, but elsewhere there is good news for Togo's Ecobank and First Bank of Nigeria.
Angola's sovereign wealth fund expands its horizons
June 1, 2015Alternative assets are the name of the game for Angola's sovereign wealth fund, as it steps in where local banks fear to tread.
UniCredit CIB chief optimistic over European capital markets
June 1, 2015UniCredit’s new head of corporate and investment banking, Gianni Franco Papa, tells Michael Watt about what he says are good times for Europe’s capital markets, and the worry of over-regulation on the horizon.
Can Angola weather the oil price storm?
June 1, 2015Angola’s steady story of economic growth has been badly disrupted by the global collapse in oil prices. Can the 'ultimate petrostate' weather the storm?
Angolan economy stalls as dependence on oil continues
June 1, 2015Angola's failure to diversify away from oil has led to faltering growth in what has been in recent years one of Africa's best-performing economies. Though the government is managing the crisis better than in previous years, the currency remains unstable and access to foreign currency is in short supply.
Is redemption in reach for FX?
April 1, 2015The foreign exchange market currently finds itself under unprecedented scrutiny. Rocked by scandals over benchmark practices and investigations into the legitimacy of certain trading practices, is the asset class doing enough to get itself back on the straight and narrow?
Lloyds capital markets chief prepares for market uncertainty
April 1, 2015With a general election just weeks away in the UK, Lloyds Banking Group’s James Garvey is preparing for an uncertain period in the country's capital markets. With Greece’s membership of the eurozone still in doubt, other political realities could derail issuance in 2015, while the bank itself is focusing upon reducing balance sheet risk.
BCBS reviews sovereign risk weights for banks
March 3, 2015An end to the zero-risk view of sovereign debt could hit bank balance sheets and the borrowing costs of more indebted countries.
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