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Editorial analysis, market briefings, and regulatory commentary from our research desk — drawn from 812 archive pieces covering international finance, cross-border structuring, and the institutions that move them.

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Market Briefing

Sovereign issuance rebounds: why March's EM dollar pipeline matters more than the headline volume

Three emerging-market sovereigns returned to the long end this month. We dissect the concession structure, the demand profile, and the secondary reaction in CDS.

11 min Yusuf Al-Rashid
Structural Analysis

Holdco vs. opco: how treasury teams are reorganising for a fragmented rate environment

With rate paths diverging across the Atlantic and the Gulf, the case for redundant holdcos is being quietly rebuilt. We compare three architectures and their after-tax cost of capital.

14 min Priya Iyer
Regulatory

The VARA refresh: what Dubai's updated virtual-asset framework signals to institutional desks

Beyond the press release, the operative changes for custody, broker-dealer activity, and stablecoin issuance sit in the annexes. A line-by-line read of the operative clauses.

9 min Tomás Beltran
Market Briefing

FX hedging in a low-vol regime: why the carry trade is back, and the basis risks nobody is pricing

Implied vols sit at five-year lows, but cross-currency basis tells a different story. A practitioner's note on hedging cost, tenor, and the limits of forward points.

7 min Daniela Costa
Structural Analysis

The SPAC diaspora: where the post-2021 vehicles ended up, and what their structures tell us

Of the 612 SPACs that went public in the 2020–22 window, 70% have either liquidated or announced a PIPE-led restructure. A taxonomy of the survivors.

16 min Henrik Lindqvist
Regulatory

Beneficial-ownership transparency: the third wave of registers, and the legal counsel gaps they expose

From the EU's AMLA operational start to the UK's new overseas-entity rules, the compliance load on cross-border groups is consolidating — and the advisory market has not caught up.

12 min Aisha Okonkwo
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