The ICMA-NAFMII Working Group, which brings together experts from financial institutions in China and the UK to share expertise on processes, practices, and the associated market infrastructure in debt capital markets, has issued its first report: ‘Practices and procedures in the Chinese and international primary debt capital markets’.  The report

Non-banks (including insurers and funds) can add some fire-power to European policy makers' initiatives to fund small businesses by packaging their loans into structured deals, according to a new report Moody's Investors Service. "Securitisation enables investors, such as insurers and pension funds, to transform their investments into more liquid instruments

A new survey of managers of Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), a scheme designed to provide finance to UK smaller companies, by Tilney Bestinvest suggests that the current tax year is set to see a sharp contraction in VCT fund raising.  This follows one of the highest years on record in

The opening of the Saudi Stock Exchange to foreign institutional investors in June 2015 has contributed significantly to the direction of private capital flows in the GCC region, according to Invesco’s sixth annual Middle East Asset Management Study. The report is based on 167 interviews with sovereign wealth funds, state

Asia Pacific outbound merger and acquisition activity continues to accelerate, with more than USD275 billion of transactions announced in the last 18 months alone, according to a new report released today by Baird.  The report notes that Asia Pacific outbound M&A deal value is on a steep growth path, increasing

Banks believe that new digitally enabled supplier finance networks and alternative lenders now pose a significant threat to every part of the commercial lending business, according to a new survey conducted by Misys. The survey also reveals that 68 per cent of respondents cited small business lending as being under

After reaching a record high of USD56.4B spent in 2014, the US is on track to smash that record and break USD70 billion in Venture Capital (VC) spending by the end of 2015, according to a new report from KPMG and CB Insights. Venture Pulse Q2 '15, the first in