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  • Asif Godall has been appointed as head of global markets for EMEA at Mizuho International plc, replacing Zahra Peerbhoy. Godall joins from Cairn Capital, where he was co-chief investment officer.
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    Banca Carige, the struggling Italian lender, said this week that it was looking for €630m of new equity capital to carry out an ambitious plan to bring its non-performing exposure (NPE) ratio down to 6%-7% from 22%. The institution is also hoping to overhaul its funding sources, faced with replacing €5.5bn of financing from the Italian government and the European Central Bank.
  • ABN Amro, one of the banks at the centre of the global financial crisis in 2008, hopes that a new structure designed to deliver on a corporate and institutional banking (CIB) strategy anchored closer to home will allow it to prosper.
  • Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has launched the first catastrophe bond out of Singapore, as the Lion City seeks to become a hub for insurance-linked securities (ILS) by offering grants to issuers.
  • Metro Bank has obtained a standby underwrite for a £350m ($464m) equity raise to be completed later this year, even as short sellers circle around the bank. The miscalculation in its risk-weighted assets (RWAs) announced last month, and an expected delay in getting permission for internal models to calculate those weightings, are both damaging for its capital ratios.
  • Tim Haywood, the portfolio manager dismissed from GAM for gross misconduct, says he is appealing against his former employer’s decision.