The Big Interview

Bank’s sustainability expert Zoe Knight spoke to GlobalCapital after shareholder motion withdrawn

Spanish bank adds experience and sophistication to balance sheet power to grow capital markets business

Defining clients as European, US or Japanese does them a 'disservice', says US head of advisory and capital markets. 'At the end of the day, there are SMBC clients.'

Suriname’s debt workout has the ingredients to be a fascinating case study for sovereign restructuring. GlobalCapital spoke exclusively to the two ministers leading creditor negotiations, Armand Achaibersing (l) and Albert Ramdin (r).

CA CIB’s drive to reduce emissions begins with slimming oil exposure

Private credit specialist sees sharp growth in direct lending, but questions the efficacy of using IRR figures to judge a fund's performance

In October La Banque Postale became the first bank to announce it was exiting fossil fuels altogether, and the first to have a validated Science-Based Target for decarbonising its portfolio. Philippe Heim, the bank’s CEO, talked to GlobalCapital about what this path will involve, and LBP’s wider drive to create ‘impact banking’.

Jingdong Hua, the treasurer of the World Bank, announced his retirement this week, marking the end of an illustrious career spanning across various development finance institutions in different continents where he witnessed several crises. GlobalCapital spoke to Hua about his career, the Covid-19 pandemic and his passion for multilateralism.

Natixis's co-head of its corporate and investment bank tells GlobalCapital how Groupe BPCE has turbo charged his firm's ability to take on more business as it looks to expand into new sectors and markets

Hayes claims the banks knew exactly what the traders were doing and that his sentence was an 'absolute joke'

"We want to use this change of structure and these new leadership roles to foster this multi-product solutions mentality," Pete Mason tells GlobalCapital

KfW has had a strong start to 2021, raising over €50bn in the first six months of the year — around two thirds of its target. The agency will face new challenges in the latter half of the year, particularly in the form of the European Union’s colossal Next Generation funding programme. But treasurer Tim Armbruster, and head of capital markets Petra Wehlert are confident they can navigate the new landscape.