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UK gilt crisis flags liquidity-driven investment risks

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UNITED KINGDOM

The Bank of England (BoE) judged this a material risk to financial stability and stabilised the market by buying gilts. This prevented wider crisis but the gilt market spike has…

Global vulture funds action will be restricted

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INTERNATIONAL

Prospects for vulture fund activity.

Private credit will grow as an alternative asset class

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INTERNATIONAL

In the current low-interest-rate environment, private debt and other alternative assets have become a key part of investors’ portfolios given their attractive risk-adjusted…

Asset managers in the middle ground may be squeezed

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INTERNATIONAL

Asset management consolidation.

UK policy storm may spread fears of financial risk

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UK/INT

UK policy has become the key example of policy failure. Although that mayhem stems largely from domestic vulnerabilities, the underlying problems -- policymakers’ efforts to…

Greek recovery will attract institutional investors

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GREECE

The new issue’s main purpose was to build up a benchmark yield curve to facilitate the sovereign’s future access to capital markets and, ultimately, pave the way for the broader…

Plans for Mexico’s Pemex look increasingly unrealistic

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MEXICO

Pemex problems.

AI will transform finance but also exacerbate risks

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INTERNATIONAL

AI prospects in the financial sector

Saudi Aramco-SABIC merger will raise strategy concerns

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SAUDI ARABIA

This will be used to meet part of the costs of acquiring a controlling stake in Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the kingdom’s principal petrochemical producer. Aramco…

Russia adjusts financial sector and looks to renminbi

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RUSSIA

Russia's banking sector suffered a USD26bn loss in January-June. Russia is shut out of international capital markets and is almost exclusively reliant on domestic investors to…