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Geoffrey Levin Jai Khanna US firms made significant investments in talent as fall got underway. SIDLEY AUSTIN bolstered its private equity practice by hiring Geoffrey Levin, who had been a mainstay of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft's transactional practice in New York. Levin represents sponsors and their portfolio companies in M&A and corporate governance.

Under UK rules, retail deposits will be separated from the bank’s other activities

The world should be watching China’s green bond experiment It's apt that green bonds originated in Sweden. An instrument that promotes climate-friendly investments by limiting the use of proceeds, and involves strict monitoring and reporting requirements – while having no immediate financial benefits over and above an ordinary corporate bond – could only be devised in a country that isn't battling more pressing, short-term issues. The Scandinavian utopia may be an inaccurate stereotype, but financial instability, poverty and geopolitical tensions are relatively low on its national agenda.

It’s a race against time to update documentation

Ahead of the anticipated lifting of economic sanctions against the country, Iran is testing the international financial community's appetite by issuing around 400 billion rials ($13.4 million) worth of short-term treasury bills.

Since the Capital Markets Union's action plan was released in late September, all talk has turned to unification and harmonisation. But for Europe's capital markets to unite in a truly meaningful way, there is far more work to be done. Surely the most pertinent of all is to agree on a uniform insolvency regime.

The UK's plans to ringfence its largest banks is looking like an expensive, and ultimately futile, exercise.

Every financial crisis seems to follow a similar pattern. After a long, hot bask in the sun, there comes the crash. Economic growth suffers. Businesses and households suffer. It's miserable. Everyone wants a return to growth.

For the third year in a row, the magic circle firm has been named international firm of the year at the annual ceremony

The Gulf state’s maiden issuance is a signal that the government is behind both capital markets and Islamic finance