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GlobalCapital asked heads of debt capital markets businesses across the Street about their expectations for 2025 and their experiences of 2024. Most predict rising issuance volumes as Ralph Sinclair discovers whether they see AI, blockchains, or the rather more human rise of private credit as the most disruptive threat to the industry
The capital markets are finding growing uses for artificial intelligence as language models go from being large and broad, to small and tightly focused. AI has already been deployed to increase administrative efficiency. Automation in trading and execution is next, writes Gaia Freydefont
The Australia-specific approach has no immediate impact on other major markets
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Aija Zitcere, director in the financial markets policy department of the Latvian Finance Ministry and her colleague, Imants Tiesnieks, a senior expert in the same department, discuss the main features of Latvia’s covered bond law, which was approved by its Parliament on Wednesday. -
Deutsche Bank held a three hour “deepdive” into its sustainability actions for clients, investors, the press and NGOs last week, with its CEO Christian Sewing and all its business heads. It coincided with an array of announcements, which even earned a favourable comment from Moody’s, including that Deutsche is accelerating its €200bn sustainable financing target. But those hoping for more detail on how Deutsche will decarbonise its financing were disappointed.
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The European Banking Authority has published its first EU-wide climate risk assessment. It reveals that many banks lack the granular data required to reliably estimate their green asset ratios.
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SMBC Nikko has hired Markus Steilen as managing director and head of continental European debt syndicate, based in Frankfurt. Steve Apted remains head of syndicate in London.
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The European Central Bank issued several warnings about the banking sector in its Financial Stability Review (FSR) this week, as it drew attention to corporate zombification, a new capital markets exodus and an undesirable tightening in lending standards.
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Moody’s has placed Deutsche Bank on review for a ratings upgrade, praising the firm for making "swift and pronounced progress" towards its restructuring goals. The rating agency wants to determine whether the German bank can sustain a recent improvement in its earnings, which has largely been fuelled by an outperformance in its capital markets business.
