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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.
  • 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.
  • Goldman Sachs has hired Sushil Krishan, a UniCredit banker, for its team covering equity derivatives solutions, GlobalCapital understands.
  • A substantial and growing proportion of asset managers are asking big oil companies to realign their businesses with the Paris Agreement by moving away from fossil fuels, a survey released on Monday has found. But only a few have set deadlines or thought about what to do if the oil companies fail to comply.
  • Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank will have to sort themselves out without the help of each other, after merger talks collapsed this week. Speculation mounted as to whether Deutsche would now be forced to slash its investment banking operations, and about whether Commerzbank would be embraced by another European peer.
  • Credit Suisse was first off the blocks among big European investment banks in releasing its first quarter results on Wednesday. While trading revenue was strong, underwriting and advisory revenues disappointed, compared with US peers.