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  • UniCredit's investment banking results are dominated by loan losses, with financing revenues from Italy swelling 62% but entirely wiped out by provisions taken in the region. Separately, Jean Pierre Mustier, the head of the unit, announced his departure on Tuesday.
  • Singapore has announced a set of reforms to its equity capital markets in a bid to improve transparency and clamp down on excessive speculation and manipulation of low-priced securities. While the moves are being hailed as positive among syndicate bankers, there is some concern it could dry up an already illiquid market.
  • The Financial Conduct Authority’s review into “best execution” founds that most firms are not doing enough to meet the regulator’s standards. It also highlights continued payment for order flow at some firms, which contravenes its guidelines.
  • Craig Coben and Mary Ann Deignan have been appointed co-heads of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s equity capital markets business globally.
  • Chris Roberts has returned to JP Morgan’s London office from San Francisco to head the bank’s EMEA equity capital markets execution team.
  • Barclays has roundly rejected the New York attorney general’s complaint about its dark pool, saying that it is based on “clear and substantial factual errors” and that the very documents that the suit is based on “along with the complaint’s other fatal flaws” should get it thrown out.