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  • Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, the UK lender, rose 5% on Friday after it reported its first quarterly profit for more than a year.
  • GlobalCapital understands that RBC Capital Markets has reached into the European FIG talent pool and plucked out an HSBC syndicate banker to join its origination efforts.
  • Deutsche Bank’s cost cutting and capital raising efforts are starting to pay off, with the bank dragging itself to profitability in the first quarter after full-year losses of €1.4bn in 2016. However, net revenues were down €800m year on year, and the shares dipped after the announcement on Thursday.
  • Credit Suisse beat analysts’ expectations and posted a net profit in the first quarter of 2017, while the bank finally ended uncertainty about its capital position, and the possible IPO of its Swiss unit, by announcing plans for a Sfr4bn rights issue.
  • The European Covered Bond Council has restated its support for the concept of a high quality principle-based covered bond framework and warned against altering the preferential regulatory status of the asset class.
  • Manfred Schepers, who worked at UBS Warburg and its predecessors for 17 years to 2003, has been nominated to join the board of Dutch bank Van Lanschot.