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Banca Imi has hired a senior Barclays convertible bond salesman to head its equity-linked sales drive.
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Santander raised €7.5bn of equity capital in a block trade on Thursday January 8, the biggest ever outside the US, to put its core equity tier one ratio up to 10%. The deal was priced at the low end of the discount range and led to a very steep fall in Santander's share price the day after – yet won some admiration from rival banks. -
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is taking steps to speed up equity raisings in the country, proposing ways to cut not just the time it takes to list but also conduct rights issues and other public offerings. The draft proposals come at a time when the Indian ECM market is set for a busy year, with bankers saying the new measures will make life easier not just for issuers but also investors.
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Bayerische Landesbank and Berenberg, the Hamburg-based private investment bank, have announced an unusual deal to cooperate in corporate finance, designed to help both firms fill gaps in their product armouries, especially around mergers and acquisitions.
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The latest 600 pages of guidelines from the European Securities and Markets Authority ruined Christmas for a few market participants, but it still leaves the future of fixed income research a mystery.
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Standard Chartered has taken a knife to its global equities division as it seeks to cull some of its loss-making businesses. The move is expected to affect around 200 jobs, the majority of which are in Asia.
