Corporate

Why be a good company? What benefits does being sustainable, diverse, and inclusive bring? There are several key advantages. But the one that most people think of first is sometimes…

Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment in Private Equity. 2021. Simon Witney. Cambridge University Press (International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation Series). Private equity as an investment class is older…

The credit markets have developed a highly concentrated buy-side structure since the global financial crisis (GFC). Driven largely by regulators, this has limited financial institutions’ ability to provide market liquidity…

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced primary and secondary market corporate bond purchase programs as part of its response to the…

Read the complete three-part series. The European Central Bank (ECB) began buying corporate debt as part of its corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP) in 2016. Given its clear and unambiguous…

The Ongoing Influence of Fed Intervention The markets responded immediately when the US Federal Reserve announced it would intervene in corporate credit markets to bolster the economy amid the pandemic…

“It often happens that a player carries out a deep and complicated calculation, but fails to spot something elementary right at the first move.” — Alexander Kotov, Chess Grandmaster Introduction…