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  • Fixed income, currencies and commodities trading (FICC) has been the clear area of strength in US bank results so far when compared with the fourth quarter of 2018, particularly in rates and mortgages. Underwriting fees have also come in high, but advisory earnings have suffered.
  • The UK’s bank regulator, once one of the world’s toughest, has eased some of its conditions around the synthetic risk transfer market, allowing the UK’s biggest lenders to sell balance sheet CLOs on similar terms to their European Central Bank-regulated peers.
  • Sandrine Ferdane has been appointed BNP Paribas’s new global head of financial institutions coverage (FIC), replacing José Placido, who has a new role as chief executive of the corporate and investment bank for the Americas.
  • Goldman Sachs is forming a Sustainable Solutions Council for its investment banking division, with four members for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
  • Funding Circle picks up former securitization syndicator — Campbell moves from HSBC to RBC — Long-time DCM banker turns up at Aramco
  • RBC Capital Markets is beefing up financial sponsors, aiming to boost its European business during 2020, writes David Rothnie.