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  • The European Union is just centimetres away from signing off on a long-awaited revamp of its prudential capital rules for banks, after EU ambassadors gave the green light on Friday to texts agreed by the Council and Parliament at the end of 2018.
  • Lloyds Banking Group has appointed William Chalmers, a Morgan Stanley FIG banker, as its next chief financial officer.
  • Credit Suisse’s fourth quarter results showed damage from the high yield and leveraged finance market’s tantrum in the last quarter of 2018. The bank was also hit by a Canada Goose block trade gone wrong.
  • UBS is re-balancing its corporate finance business to end its reliance on its Financial Institutions Group with impressive results, writes David Rothnie.
  • Commerzbank has faced some resistance from staff over moves from the UK to continental Europe in preparation for Brexit, although the bank says those who have moved have no regrets. Meanwhile, margin pressure has been weighing on the bank’s corporate clients division, but there were positive signs in its financial institutions business last quarter.
  • Crédit Agricole provided no let-up in the disappointing performances of fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) desks in French banks’ fourth quarter results. By one measure it was the lender's worst quarterly result there in more than six years.