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"It's tremendously important that we are wide-awake to the potentially adverse, unintended consequences of interest rates being where they are," the Bank of England's head of financial stability Andrew Haldane told IFLR this month, in an exclusive online-only video series. "We need to be super vigilant that markets don't get ahead of themselves, don't become too bubbly."

The project to introduce a single supervisor for Europe's systemically important banks is nearing completion, bringing Europe one step closer to a full banking union. But the details of how the union will work are still unclear.

The rise of local banks has changed the rules for Africa’s lending market. Foreign banks have been forced out of syndications, and must now learn from their local competition

Unlike the US, Mexico’s financial reforms made good use of this

A recent Bank of England report set out the case for clearinghouses to have a well-mapped plan for how they will assign losses to members, in the event of a default that burns through the company's emergency funds. Central counterparties (CCPs) must closely consider their options when designing these rules, each of which has its own unique considerations.

The offshore renminbi (RMB) bond market might be rapidly expanding, but international investors and issuers lack incentives to participate until the market adheres to international best practice on deal structures and credit ratings.

Given Spain can support losses from this this, few banks need capital reserves

The deal opens up the east to new issuers Al Bayan Group has become the first Saudi company to tap the Malaysian capital markets, establishing a RM1 billion ($161 million) Malaysian ringgit sukuk programme. RM200 million sukuk wakalah due 2016 has been issued as the first tranche under the inaugural programme.

The debut listing of German chemicals producer Evonik on the Frankfurt and Luxembourg stock exchanges used an unconventional quick-to-market structure. The alternate initial public offering (IPO) sets a so-called almost-safe model for other large European corporates to follow.

Timothy Langenkamp, Sidley Austin Trey Monsour, K&L Gates George Davis, O’Melveny & Myers Even by the standards of Houston's breakneck-paced, rough-and-tumble legal market, this spring has shaped up to be a busy one. As April moved into May, K&L GATES announced that it had lured Anthony Newton from Haynes and Boone to its office in Houston, where Newton will apply his knowledge of M&A, refinancings, private equity deals, and tax matters on behalf of oil and gas drillers and other corporate clients. Newton's hire came just days after K&L GATES announced the addition of Bruce Blefeld from Jackson Walker and Trey Monsour from Haynes and Boone as partners in its antitrust and restructuring practices respectively. PAUL HASTINGS hired corporate and securities lawyer Gislar Donnenberg as a partner in its Houston bureau. Donnenberg possesses special expertise in master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form of publicly traded partnership enjoying a surge of interest from both retail and institutional investors.