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• Ringfences at the ready as UK banks reassure on reforms

  

  The large British banks have just completed one of the most complex structural reforms they’ve ever undertaken, severing their UK retail businesses from their wholesale operations to meet ringfence regulations. The sheer disruption of the changes has led competitors to scent blood, while the UK banks have been anxious to reassure their clients that nothing will change.

  • 16 Aug 2018

• Regulators mull climate risk charge in Pillar 2

  

  The banking industry has largely backed efforts to use sustainable financing to cut capital charges through a ‘green supporting factor’. But regulators may use the stick, as well as the carrot, through temporary capital add-ons for dirty lending — something the financial industry is unlikely to welcome.

  • 16 Aug 2018

• UK gov agrees to open up Co-op Bank review

  

  The UK government has said that it will provide full access to documents required to carry out an investigation into the supervision of the Co-operative Bank between 2008 and 2013, following criticism of the review’s protocol from the UK Treasury Select Committee.

  • 16 Aug 2018

• Aegon considers Vivat bid after sale reports

  

  Aegon has said it will consider buying Vivat should its fellow Dutch insurer be put up for sale this year, but the firm added that it was “far too early” to talk about financing options.

  • 16 Aug 2018

• StanChart picks new head of syndicate, and heads of DCM of west and east

  

  Standard Chartered has appointed a new head of syndicate, as well as a new head of DCM West and DCM East.

  • 16 Aug 2018

• Spinetti departs HSBC after over a decade

  

  Gianluca Spinetti, an associate director working in FIG and corporate DCM origination, has left HSBC.

  • 14 Aug 2018

• HSBC loses head of EMEA sustainable bonds

  

  HSBC’s head of sustainable bonds, EMEA debt capital markets, has left the bank.

  • 14 Aug 2018

• Payment receivables ABS give Turkish banks lifeline

  

  Diversified payment receivables securitizations, a deal structure used extensively by Turkey’s big banks, could be a vital route to help these institutions access more hard currency term funding as the crisis in the country deepens. But these deals have increasingly relied on development institutions in recent years, rather than private demand.

  • 14 Aug 2018

• FIG DCM head trades Citi for Santander

  

  Citi’s head EMEA FIG DCM is leaving the bank and taking up a senior FIG role at Banco Santander.

  • 14 Aug 2018

• Credit Suisse DCM MD quits for Deloitte

  

  A Credit Suisse DCM managing director has quit the bank to join Deloitte.

  • 14 Aug 2018

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