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  • UniCredit will seek to ensure it hits its 2019 financial targets before going ahead with a bid for Germany’s Commerzbank, if the latter’s talks with Deutsche Bank collapse.
  • JP Morgan has created a new unit within its global equity derivatives division focused on insurance structuring – an area that the US bank sees as a key component of the growth of its equities franchise.
  • Antoine Broquereau has been appointed as head of global markets UK at Société Générale. He has been tasked with concentrating particularly on equity derivatives and structured products, at a time when the bank has been considering how to streamline its global markets activities.
  • Broor Spahr van der Hoek is joining Arma Partners, leaving his role at JP Morgan as head of private placements and growth capital business for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The advisory boutique wants to develop its private capital offering as a complement to M&A services; it sees this form of financing as an increasingly relevant option for firms before they go public or are bought up.
  • The UK’s new Brexit Bond Management Office is still preparing to issue its first notes, originally scheduled for last Friday. The Brexit-themed Gilts are sized at £36.4bn, equivalent to £350m a week over their two year maturity.
  • Shares in Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany, fell as much as 4.5% on Thursday after reports that it is considering raising fresh equity capital to finance its potential merger with Commerzbank, two years after its last €8bn rights issue.