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  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said on Thursday that it has hired Julian van Kan as head of financial institutions for EMEA.
  • Securitizations issued by the two Italian banks in liquidation, Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza, are in limbo, with no word from the banks themselves or Intesa Sanpaolo, which is acquiring most of their good assets, about the fates of the deals. The most recent issues from the two banks were kept for use as repo collateral with JP Morgan but both banks have plenty of outstanding placed bonds, too.
  • Nomura confirmed that it has begun applying for a licence in Germany to operate a new Frankfurt-based entity, as a preparation for the UK’s exit from the European Union.
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    From September IHS Markit will include UK and Swiss banks at the holding company level in its credit default swap (CDS) indices, but the index provider is still consulting on whether or not to include non-preferred senior debt.
  • Final talks on the EU’s mitigation measures for banks applying IFRS 9 will start in September, ahead of the new standard coming into force in January 2018. But the Parliament and member states still disagree about how to calculate the capital relief offered to banks.
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    The eurozone could be strengthened by the addition of a “small fiscal capability” to deal with economic shocks, one of its leading financial officials said in a panel at Euromoney Global Borrowers' forum on Tuesday, as attention turns to reforming the eurozone — a cause championed by Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president.