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  • A poor third quarter for Commerzbank’s investment banking division and the announced retirement of its chief executive has done little to spoil the bank’s overall sense of momentum, as it posted better profits than had been widely expected and revealed it would pay its first dividend in eight years.
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    FIG bankers breathed a sigh of relief at the US Federal Reserve’s proposal, released last Wednesday, for implementing Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) rules for US Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs), which is seen as less severe than may had anticipated. But the rule as proposed could damage secondary market liquidity.
  • Greek banks will have to address a €14.4bn capital shortfall as part of ongoing plans to strengthen the viability of the country’s banking system, said the European Central Bank on Saturday.
  • HSBC announced it was launching a joint venture with Shenzhen Qianhai Financial Holdings, to give it an onshore securities license and build an onshore renminbi debt capital markets business.
  • BNP Paribas outdid its fixed income and equity peers during the third quarter of the year, as revenues in its corporate and institutional banking division grew 4.2% year on year to €2.62bn.
  • Royal Bank of Scotland’s sale of Citizens, its US retail bank, helped to boost headline profits in the third quarter, but the UK lender posted high restructuring and litigation costs that are not expected to fall any time soon.