Capital Markets
EU reforms aim to revive securitization markets—explore how regulatory changes could unlock capital and reshape Europe’s financial system.
Europe’s capital markets are at a critical inflection point. With more than €11 trillion in household savings largely parked in low-yield, liquid assets, the European Union is pushing to redirect this capital toward more productive, capital market… READ MORE ›
CFA Institute and CFA Society Hong Kong respond to HKEX’s IPO reform proposals, highlighting key risks and opportunities for market transparency and fairness.
Learn how market volatility can distort carbon metric comparisons over time, complicate medium-term target setting, and create additional reporting challenges.
Social media is borderless. Regulation is not. That's why global cooperation among regulators is necessary to deliver the best possible outcomes for consumers.
PCAOB audit partner transparency data provided a leading indicator of audit quality issues.
"Lets Talk EU" added three new episodes, focusing on the Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) regulation that took effect in January. These podcasts examine what the EU could learn from the German stakeholder capitalism model as well as the key challenge that the European Commission needs to solve: supervisory convergence.
The implosion of Germany’s Wirecard has demonstrated that those parties – management, the audit committee and board, auditors, audit regulators, and corporate reporting regulators – investors compensate and rely upon to look after their capital investments failed them on multiple levels in the European Union’s (EU’s) largest economy.
“Money in COVID Times” is an analysis of how the role of central banks in the market and the economy has changed since 2008. From this perspective, the COVID-19 situation has only exacerbated the transformation of central banks into entities that act as lender and market maker of last resort, every time markets experience a level of stress that could reverberate across money markets, including credit and financial assets used as collateral. Together, the various stratums of money markets have replaced traditional banks as a supply chain for capital markets activity.
CFA Institute Senior Director Matt Orsagh, CFA, CIPM, spoke with CEO and co-portfolio manager of Carbon Cap Management, Michael Azlen, about carbon pricing and emissions trading systems (ETS).