During the summer, GlobalCapital surveyed capital markets professionals about how the pandemic has affected their work life, and what they expect to happen next. These are the results

The global pandemic has forced those working in finance to re-evaluate how they do their jobs — whether it be working more from home and not travelling as much on aeroplanes or helping to foster more diverse and ESG-conscious workplaces. Some banks have also seen the crisis as an agent of change, to accelerate growth plans or implement new strategies. Eighteen months on from the beginning of the crisis, GlobalCapital looks at how successful they’ve been and whether they can make it stick.

Market participants hail remote working as catalyst of innovation

The stress and misery of coronavirus have been unequally distributed — forcing firms to work harder towards fairness

The office is back, but not as we knew it

International business travel is not expected to return to the capital markets on the same scale as before the pandemic, for more reasons than one

Travel allowed for "important client-driven business" — local rules permitting

The funding team of the European Stability Mechanism has launched its first physical roadshow to meet investors in person for 18 months, making the supranational agency one of the first, if not the first, to officially revive the concept since the Covid-19 crisis began.

Wells Fargo has informed staff in the US that it is delaying the reopening of its offices in the country as a result of rising Covid-19 cases.