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  • BNP Paribas blamed European authorities’ restrictions on 2019 dividend payments for losing it €184m in its equities business, when it released its first quarter results on Tuesday. However, in debt capital markets and fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) it was a more positive picture, as the bank took advantage of a surge in debt origination and electronic trading.
  • Jacques Callaghan, formerly of Macquarie Capital, has joined HSBC as head of UK mid-market M&A, concentrating on a wedge of companies that are important to the bank’s new strategy.
  • Some banks in the eurozone tightened their lending standards in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, even as loan demand surged, according to a European Central Bank survey that provides the first systematic evidence on the subject.
  • As European countries prepare to ease lockdown measures, those in capital markets are well aware that their day-to-day lives will not go back to how they were anytime soon. They have mixed views on working from home, but will an entirely new working culture emerge?
  • Deutsche Bank has regained its number one spot in its home market, but it was its traditional investment banking business that shone rather than investments made as part of the firm’s new Germany-focused strategy, writes David Rothnie.
  • In contrast to what analysts had expected before its first quarter results, Deutsche Bank reckons its investment bank will outperform last year’s revenue figures in 2020. However, its fixed income and currencies sales and trading business did not match peers’ revenue growth in the first quarter.