Banks

CLSA’s chief executive officer, Jonathan Slone, has resigned after more than three decades at the firm. His departure comes just two weeks after the bank’s chairman quit.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.

The European corporate bond market’s charmed life continued on Tuesday, as if the intensifying crisis of Brexit was just a dream. Two triple-B issuers and one single-A all found the same deep demand that has greeted every deal for the past few weeks.

Rabobank has appointed Thomas Levin as a senior coverage banker, joining from Mizuho.

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Nordea launched a refinancing deal for specialty chemicals firm Perstorp Holding, a Swedish-headquartered PAI Partners and Landmark Partners portfolio company.

Sachin Goel has left Royal Bank of Canada to join Millennium Management as an assistant portfolio manager, GlobalCapital understands.

Bankers away from Andalusia’s 10 year euro benchmark are heaping praise on the trade, which was priced on Tuesday.

The UK financial regulator has fined UBS a record £27.6m for misreporting transactions, in breach of the European Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFiD).

The State of North-Rhine Westphalia received a rapturous reception from investors for the syndicated reopening of its century bond on Tuesday, allowing it to print over five times the initial target size.

Roman Abramovich let a consortium of three Russia oligarchs in a £151m selldown of shares in Evraz, the London-listed Russian steel and mining company on Monday night.

Stadler Rail, the Swiss train maker, is gearing up for an IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange in April, having filed an intention to float document on Tuesday.

Citigroup’s new operations in Frankfurt are designed to help it continue offering services for clients after Brexit, and it is moving around 80 staff from London. It is one of a number of big US banks to expand in the German city.