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Investec has hired Florian von Hartig as head of DCM. Von Hartig joins from Standard Bank, where he was global head of debt primary markets, managing DCM, securitization, ratings advisory, transaction execution and bond syndicate.
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Clydesdale Bank, the UK subsidiary of National Australia Bank, said that David Thorburn, chief executive, had decided to stand down. -
The inconvenient truth about credit ratings is that they are one of the least bad options for measuring credit risk. Basel’s latest proposal to write the agencies out of regulation will simply introduce new problems.
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BNP Paribas is creating a corporate debt platform in its financing solutions group, bringing together debt capital markets, loan capital markets origination and corporate acquisition finance.
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The Basel Committee announced in December that it is seeking opinions on a proposal to establish a capital floor framework based on a standardised approach to credit risk, with the Committee arguing that a standardised capital floor is necessary to offset difficulties created by relying on bank’s internally modelled approaches. According to research from Deutsche Bank, Swedish institutions are likely to be some of the hardest-hit when the rules come in.
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The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory Authority released the results of its latest round of stress tests this week, revealing that of the eight largest UK banks and building societies only the Co-operative Bank had ran afoul of its adverse scenario. Bankers and analysts have taken the results as a sign that the UK’s financial system is robust, though some have warned that future stress tests may become trickier to navigate.
