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  • Banco Santander made €5.82bn attributable profit in 2014, as its gross profits rose in all its nine key markets, for the first time since 2007.
  • Barclays is making a big push into the blocks business in Asia Pacific as it looks to capitalise on the revenue-generating opportunities available in that side of the ECM market. To that extent, the bank has appointed Jack Yee as its new head of blocks origination for the region, while bumping up Daniel Wosner to the position of head of equity syndicate.
  • Standard Bank has closed a sale of 60% of its markets business to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a deal which the bank will use to further “the group’s growth strategy in South Africa, and across the African continent.”
  • GlobalCapital Asia held a drinks reception at Duddell’s in Hong Kong on January 28, 2015. The evening was a chance for guests to pick up their well deserved regional capital markets awards, and catch up with friends and colleagues from around the market.
  • Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said US financial regulators were preparing a new rule on compensation at financial institutions, which could include more deferral, delayed vesting and “the possibility of more robust forfeiture”.
  • While financial assets are off to the races following Thursday’s announcement of €60bn a month in eurozone quantitative easing, the banking system still needs growth to take off. The bond buying programme could hurt European banks by squashing the yield curve, and leave investment banks becalmed by low rates for longer.