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  • Policymakers and regulators, be warned: US investment banks are poised to exceed the market share of their European counterparts in Europe, which could set back European initiatives to stabilise the region’s banking sector while increasing corporate and retail access to capital.
  • Commerzbank has named Martin Zielke the successor to Martin Blessing as chief executive and chairman of the board of managing directors.
  • Barclays’ plan to cut its exposure to African operations has left emerging market bond and loan bankers puzzling what future the firm has in the region — historically one of its areas of strength within CEEMEA — but it will leave the UK firm better capitalised.
  • The UK’s largest banks are still using tweaks to capital models to flatter their capital ratios, a practice which regulators plan to discourage in the months ahead.
  • European bond yields have fallen to new recent lows as the market takes an increasingly dim view of growth prospects, which has in turn put insurance bonds under increased pressure.
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    Virgin Money and Shawbrook posted impressive jumps in underlying profits this week, casting the UK’s challenger banks in a positive light just as some of the country’s biggest lenders contemplate falling revenues.