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  • Two senior French equity capital markets and coverage bankers who left Société Générale two months ago have joined arch-rival BNP Paribas.
  • HSBC’s anticipated cuts to its global banking and markets (GBM) division may make sense. But they will not be easy to pull off smoothly.
  • Francesco Bertocchini has joined Nomura from UBI Banca as a managing director for Italy.
  • When the European Commission looks at tweaking MiFID II, those worried about market access for small and mid-sized companies would welcome a loosening of rules on research for those firms, at a time of challenges in investment banking and renewed focus on capital markets union.
  • While the banking sector has pushed for capital requirements to be tweaked to favour green lending, European Central Bank vice president Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that equity funding might prove more appropriate than this for funding new climate technologies. On the same day, the head of supervision at the ECB said capital relief for green assets must be based on evidence.
  • The retirement of Samir Assaf, HSBC’s long-serving head of global banking and markets (GBM), paves the way for a long overdue restructuring of that division. This will test the bank’s new-look management team.