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Industry participants lobbying the Financial Conduct Authority on its plans for implementing the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) in the UK are planning on focusing their efforts on the areas of MiFID where the regulator has national discretion.
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A director has left Crédit Agricole in the latest of a string of departures from the French bank’s hybrid capital and liability management team. -
UniCredit has appointed a new head of funding as part of an internal reorganisation.
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Regulatory incentives to shrink banks are still far outweighed by the benefits of being big – meaning 2016 could see more consolidation in the sector. Systemically important banks are unlikely to buy each other, but the UK challengers are likely to be active, while asset swaps, disposals, and small bank consolidation could accelerate.
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Royal Bank of Scotland has put Anne Gebuhrer and Tim Skeet, both managing directors in FIG DCM, at risk of redundancy, adding their names to a list of FIG and corporate bankers the UK bank has recently let go.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has dropped proposals to ban banks from using agency ratings in their internal risk weighted asset (RWA) models, a move which could save the industry the job of raising billions in extra capital.
