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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.

Jenga-like structure builds in credit markets 17 Jan, 2021 08:13 PM 5 minutes to read Global markets are precariously balanced. Photo / Getty Images Financial Times By: Joe Rennison For one influential watcher of the credit world, conditions in the corporate bond market are starting to look unnerving. Matt Mish, who heads up UBS's credit strategy team, likens the current state of the market to a tower of Jenga blocks. At the moment, crucial support is being provided by central bank buying across the globe, holding borrowing costs low and providing a backstop if investor dema...

By Ralph Sinclair 17 Dec 2020 If central bank and government support was the scaffold that propped up the vast amount of funding done in lockdown, then long-held relationships between institutions — between people — were the bolts holding it together. The longer those in markets spend apart, writes Ralph Sinclair, the weaker those links will grow. “It is starting to feel as if it would be nice to have some more human contact with our teams,” confesses Eila Kreivi, head of capital markets at the European Investment Bank. It is a view that echoes around capital markets. Working from hom...