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The blockchain firsts in capital markets are coming quickly. DZ Bank is marketing a corporate Schuldschein that will run back office functions on a blockchain for the entire duration of the trade — the first time this has been done — while Société Générale’s subsidiary Forge is working on various permutations of trades to be issued using this form of distributed ledger technology. While blockchain tech is still in its infancy, it is set to disrupt capital markets, creating winners and losers. -
James Marriott is joining Wells Fargo in a senior debt capital markets role this autumn after he resigned from NatWest Markets, where he was head of DCM and advisory for financial institutions and sovereigns, supranationals and agencies.
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Agence France Trésor (AFT), the French sovereign debt office, has hired Antoine Mannevy as a debt market operations dealer.
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Sebastiano Laviola, director of strategy and policy coordination at the Single Resolution Board, said there is still plenty of work to do to refine bank failure rules in Europe but praised lenders for getting on well with issuing for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) during the pandemic.
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The pace at which central banks are accelerating towards skewing monetary policy to support the fight against climate change was brought home this week by a speech by Isabel Schnabel, an executive board member at the European Central Bank, in which she went further than ever before in calling for strong action and hinted at how the ECB might do it.
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Any talk of relaxing leverage ratio relief in the eurozone is premature, according to the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, which said this week that the support measure must remain in place until the economy has moved on from the impact of the pandemic.
