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• China Re talks to Singapore about cat bonds

  

  China Reinsurance (Group) Corp’s chairman recently held talks with the Singapore deputy prime minister about catastrophe bonds. The conversation’s timing is bound to raise eyebrows, given the reinsurer’s outstanding cat bond is due next month.

  • 15 Jun 2018

• France to set higher bank capital buffers amid corporate debt boom

  

  French banks will have to comply with a countercyclical capital buffer requirement as a means of promoting financial stability amid a rapid increase in corporate debt levels.

  • 12 Jun 2018

• Lloyds rides RBS momentum in SLA clean-up trade

  

  Lloyds Banking Group sold its remaining stake in Standard Life Aberdeen after the market closed on Thursday night in a £344.3m block trade.

  • 08 Jun 2018

• Henderson, McNelis to lead HSBC Apac DCM

  

  HSBC has named Sean Henderson and Sean McNelis as co-heads of debt capital markets, Asia Pacific, with immediate effect, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

  • 08 Jun 2018

• Brexit fog scuppers rule change for UK insurers

  

  The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority has ruled out making changes to the risk margin for insurers due to uncertainty over the country’s future relationship with the EU.

  • 07 Jun 2018

• A year on from the Banco Popular resolution: the key questions

  

  On the anniversary of the resolution of Banco Popular, GlobalCapital takes a look at the issues raised by this important first test of the EU's Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD).

  • 07 Jun 2018

• UBS selects leadership for Asia DCM syndicate

  

  UBS has appointed Kevin Cui and Terry Schmassmann as co-heads of Asia DCM syndicate, effective immediately, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

  • 07 Jun 2018

• Deutsche’s European corp fin victory plan unravels as Warren exits

  

  Deutsche Bank’s head of corporate finance EMEA, Alasdair Warren, has become the highest profile casualty of new CEO Christian Sewing’s cost-cutting drive, after failing to re-establish Deutsche at the summit of the European corporate finance rankings.

  • 06 Jun 2018

• Bondholders question HSBC’s disco shuffle

  

  HSBC’s decision to reclassify four discounted perpetual bonds (discos) as fully eligible for tier two capital has led to holders asking for clarification and transparency from the bank. They also asked whether that eligibility status was really justified.

  • 06 Jun 2018

• Scor sees power of choice with UK cat bond

  

  Scor said that being able to launch a catastrophe bond from the UK provided it with a useful alternative for issuance, after it sold the first catastrophe bond from the country with an unusual dual layer structure last week.

  • 05 Jun 2018

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