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UniCredit’s chief executive, Jean Pierre Mustier, moved fast this week to sell €1bn of stock in FinecoBank, the Italian bank’s online brokerage, after a decision to deconsolidate the unit. Many in the market see UniCredit's accelerating asset sales as an effort to boost its capital position before exploring M&A opportunities in 2020. Aidan Gregory reports.
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The EBRD is working with Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania to have the Baltic region classified as a frontier market initially and is working on a pan-area covered bond framework
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The formal separation of FinecoBank, the Italian online brokerage, from UniCredit has begun with Italy’s biggest bank selling almost half stake to institutional investors via an equity block trade – a strategy UniCredit has used numerous times in the past to shed non-core assets under its CEO Jean-Pierre Mustier.
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Metro Bank’s first quarter trading update, published on Wednesday, revealed that commercial depositors pulled cash out of the bank after the January trading update that stunned capital market participants. Metro is looking to raise equity in the next two months, before issuing £500m of tier two debt later in the year.
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Walter Ahlström is joining Swedbank as its new head of corporate finance in Finland, as part of its strategy to grow its equity capital markets business and team. He is joining from Carnegie, where he had worked in Finnish ECM. He had been there for nearly four years.
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Goldman Sachs has hired Sushil Krishan, a UniCredit banker, for its team covering equity derivatives solutions, GlobalCapital understands.