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Southpaw takes a sideways look at some of the big events that defined investment banking in 2019. -
Big European investment banks pivoted towards the Americas during 2019 in an attempt to boost revenues and position themselves for the next downturn, writes David Rothnie. With large M&A across the industry still off the table, banks are finding scale through joint ventures and alliances.
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Financial specialists will have two years to work out how to implement the European Union’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, which now looks certain to become law in the coming months. But investors, companies and banks are likely to start using the huge document much sooner than that, in a wide variety of ways.
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European member states have voted to approve the law introducing the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities at the second time of asking, after France and other objectors won concessions in favour of nuclear power that pro-green observers insisted were nothing to worry about.
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The Bank of England said it will increase the countercyclical buffer by 100bp for UK banks after disclosing the results of its latest stress test this week. As the sector performed well in the test, the new capital requirements are being interpreted as a ‘Brexit buffer’ to help institutions withstand the risk of economic turmoil at the end of 2020.
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HSBC has named two bankers as global co-heads of its debt capital markets team, replacing Jean-Marc Mercier. It is also planning to open two new desks.
