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While US bond issuers would tend to favour flexibility in devising their covenant packages, investors can also fight back

As far as risk management goes, the term seems almost trivial when applied to Brexit. Getting past the first step – identifying potential hazards and how those scenarios might play out – is difficult. Brexit has no clear form or shape, no step-by-step plan to follow and very little in the way of a timeline, beyond those two years from article 50 being triggered that everyone keeps talking about.

Despite a tough year, debt instruments are facing up to challenges with renewed resilience

The G20 country has launched a new equities market with lighter listing requirements aimed at boosting and diversifying SME funding in the region

Hong Kong and Singapore are once again going head-to-head, vying for two of the year's most coveted initial public offerings (IPOs) – Alibaba-backed Ant Financial's $10 billion offering and Saudi Aramco's $100 billion deal.

Janney Chong Chinese firm ZHONG LUN has opened its 15th office in China, in Hangzhou, driven by finance partner Yuan Ting. Corporate partner Li Ya and private equity partner Michael Zhang will work alongside Ting with all three partners splitting their time between Hangzhou and Beijing. The new office will provide advice in corporate, finance, restructuring and real estate to clients in Hangzhou and neighbouring areas.

The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region is at the centre of a perfect storm. Despite three of the top ten most expensive natural disasters since the 1980s occurring there according to German insurer MunichRe, many countries there have little to no disaster risk financing mechanisms to support recovery and rebuilding efforts after a catastrophic event.

Banks and regulators have reacted impressively to fintech’s rise. Incoming rules and Brexit will challenge them further

Japanese bondholders have reacted strongly to the upcoming presidential elections in France. And if their behaviour on the debt financial markets is anything to go by, then France is headed for trouble. The country's investors have been buying a growing amount of offshore debt in the past year, driven out of their home nation by the bank of Japan's restrictive monetary policy and low – sometimes negative – fixed-rate returns on so-called JGBs. According to Bank of Japan data, they hold JPY 27 trillion ($240 billion) of French bonds, or roughly 11% of their portfolio. Only their US holdings are larger (JPY 122 trillion).

This new asset class may classify as bail-in eligible debt, but teething problems have been felt in several EU jurisdictions