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Standard Chartered has hired Jeremy Amias to fill the newly created role of global head of investor coverage. He will report to Peter Heidinger, global head of the financial institutions group, origination and client coverage.
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Joss Fisher has stepped down from his role as head of equity syndicate non-Japan Asia at Credit Suisse. The bank is still looking for a replacement.
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NIBC Bank chief financial officer Kees van Dijkhuizen will leave the bank in May to take up the same job at larger Dutch rival ABN Amro to replace Jan van Rutte who will retire in the summer.
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Half of the variation between banks’ risk-weighted assets cannot be explained by differing balance sheet structures and regulation but may instead be down to banks’ own methods for calculating their RWAs, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has found.
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Barclays has created a new integrated financial institutions group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Richard Boath and Ben Davey will jointly lead a group that combines the FIG part of investment banking, the FIG sector of global finance, and the financial solutions team.
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Commerzbank’s slimmed-down investment bank produced a 74% rise in profits in 2012, despite using 16% less capital — a result that may encourage mid-tier banks elsewhere in Europe that are striving to compete in global markets while serving an essentially domestic client base.