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  • Credit Suisse finished 2016 with a Sfr2.4bn ($2.39bn) annual net loss but investors found reasons for optimism in the bank’s strong capital position and revenue growth in investment bank and capital markets, causing the stock price to rise 3.05% by 11.30am London time.
  • The Co-operative Bank put itself up for sale on Monday, but the ailing UK lender is also considering another debt-for-equity swap to build capital and avoid intervention from the Bank of England.
  • Commerzbank’s profits slumped for 2016 and for the fourth quarter, as the euro-orientated commercial bank benefited less than other large banks from the flurry of Trump-related trading and the steepening US yield curve.
  • Proposals for the treatment of covered bonds in the net stable funding ratio (NSFR) could spur structural innovation, may incentivise issuers to manage collateral more efficiently and, according to Fitch, could spur secondary market trading.
  • Société Générale showed it was on a steady forward march on Thursday, posting a robust set of results that benefited from resilient performances across both its retail and investment banking arms.
  • The EU Commission wants member states and the EU Parliament to fast track its work on the hierarchy of creditors. But Germany is reluctant, and some MEPs want to tie it to the reshuffle of the bank recovery and resolution directive (BRRD) – a package that will not be adopted in the short term.