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ANZ has hired a banker from RBC Capital Markets as its new head of debt capital markets in Europe.
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UBS said it would pay part of its 2014 bonus pool in additional tier one (AT1) capital, following two previous years of paying bonuses in tier two. It plans to issue around Sfr2.5bn ($2.9bn) of AT1 to its employees over the next five years.
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Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said US financial regulators were preparing a new rule on compensation at financial institutions, which could include more deferral, delayed vesting and “the possibility of more robust forfeiture”.
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While financial assets are off to the races following Thursday’s announcement of €60bn a month in eurozone quantitative easing, the banking system still needs growth to take off. The bond buying programme could hurt European banks by squashing the yield curve, and leave investment banks becalmed by low rates for longer.
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UK-headquartered Lloyds Bank has transferred yet another senior banker to its New York outpost, as it attempts to win market share in carefully-selected parts of the US capital markets such as corporate debt and securitization. The new addition will focus on North American institutional investor coverage for the bank’s financial institutions team.
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Morgan Stanley reported lower than expected fourth quarter profits on Tuesday. Earnings per share, excluding accounting adjustments, fell from 50 cents in the fourth quarter 2013 to 39 cents, which was short of consensus expectations of about 50 cents. Despite this, the bank says it is on track to benefit from a continued fall in funding costs, further falls in risk weighted assets and compensation ratios.