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Bowie Bonds
David Bowie turned heads with his 1997 sale of bonds backed by his vast song catalogue. The deal, which traced its roots back to...
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The first green bond
How the sleepy financial market of Stockholm gave birth to one of the biggest innovations in 21st century finance – and helped channel hundreds...
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Swap notes
When the World Bank turned to IBM with a novel bit of financial engineering that would help it save vital projects in the developing...
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Birth of the Eurobond
A plucky group of visionaries persuaded an Italian motorway operator to take a gamble on a new idea in 1963. In the process they...
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BP and Black Monday
The 1987 stock market crash came at the worst possible time for some of the world’s biggest banks – just as they were on...
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Google vs Wall Street
Larry Page and Sergey Brin hoped to revolutionise the way that companies go public with the IPO of their search engine in 2004. But...