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Europe's regulator seeks to reduce complexity while 'preserving banks' resilience and resolvability'
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Mizuho International has hired a banker from Standard Chartered to help build its nascent FIG business in Europe.
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David Leeming, head of hybrid capital and liability management at RBS, has left the bank.
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Chief executive Frédéric Oudéa warned of further turbulence as a year-on-year slump in Société Générale’s equities business drove profits at its investment bank 36.2% lower. Group profits, however, were cushioned by strong international retail banking income and the sale of shares in Visa Europe. -
HSBC’s troubled US business has turned a corner, with the bank now allowed to pay its first dividend from the American subsidiary to the parent since 2007. That draws a line under a decade of woe, which saw the bank brutally burned by its purchase of Household Mortgages, and spin-offs including the sale of its credit card business and many of its upstate NY branches.
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Following a stress test result that saw its stressed capital ratio dip into negative territory, Monte dei Paschi di Siena is once again turning to heavy duty financial engineering to save its skin, with a giant non-performing loan securitization — the largest ever structured — to clean its balance sheet and unlock a €5bn rights issue. The bank, however, has a tradition of relentless innovation in finance, which hasn’t always served it well.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the preliminary shortlist of nominees for its Global Derivatives Awards 2016. Nominations are based upon market feedback and research conducted in recent months. Winners will be unveiled at a gala dinner in London in September.
