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To paraphrase that old foe of capitalism Leon Trotsky, you may not be interested in financial crises, but financial crises are certainly interested in you.

When British dental company Mydentist issued its £425 million high yield bond on August 5, the UK's debt markets and its commentariat should have been celebrating. The firm had just sold the first sterling bonds since the UK voted to leave the EU on June 23, signalling that British issuers could still price a deal in an apparently apocalyptic environment.

In the second part of this month’s cover story on NPLs, attempts in China to tackle the problem are revealed. But the country may be better off following India’s lead

US counsel and industry feel that the regulatory clampdown on banks' use of internal risk models is likely to result in increased capital charges. The regulatory push back against internal models takes different forms. In the US, one such is the supervisory guidance on model risk management, better known as SR 11-7 and released by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in 2011. While the guidance applies only to banks in the US, it's becoming a global standard.

The European Commission's decisions regarding Greek banks provide an indication as to the approach it will take with the Italian financial sector

Mayank Gupta Christopher Machera The biggest US headline this month was ALLEN & OVERY's addition of a five-person team. The firm secured a five-partner leveraged finance team consisting of Scott Zemser, Alan Rockwell, and Judah Frogel from White & Case, Rajani Gupta from Proskauer Rose, and Todd Koretzky from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.

Britain's vote to leave the EU has far-reaching ramifications for European insolvency law, and could see proceedings opened under English law disregarded by other jurisdictions.

US presidential hopefuls are contemplating reinstating the act in response to the government’s handling of the 2008 financial crisis. It would be a mistake

Source of British pride: Bond or schemes?

Brazil needs Dip financing now