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Originator hired to go after bank bond issues in euros and dollars
Long-standing FIG DCM banker leaves after more than two decades
Bond market veteran rides away
Syndicate and trading executives get wider responsibilities
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  • UBS has reorganised its debt capital markets business, following the decision of global head Amir Hoveyda to step down from his role. It will merge leveraged finance and DCM, with David Slade heading the combined group in EMEA.
  • BBVA has hired a former MTN banker at Santander as a director in its liability management team.
  • Sustainable finance is bubbling with exciting new initiatives. But making people feel good is not enough. Activity needs to produce results, and so far there is more noise than movement. The tone is far too sedate — it needs some hard core activism to break the torpor.
  • Covered bond spreads are expected to widen if the European Central Bank increases its deposit rate from minus 0.4% to 0% across its whole portfolio. But some market participants think the ECB will adopt a tiered approach to the €2tr of excess liquidity held on deposit, which should not greatly affect covered bond spreads.
  • Goldman Sachs said that its equity underwriting pipeline swelled during the first quarter, with IPO interest rising among technology companies.
  • Citi’s institutional clients group registered a higher revenue in the EMEA region than it did in North America in the first quarter of the year, the first time this had happened in more than six years.