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  • FIG
    Capital markets professionals are likely to be distracted from work in the coming weeks by gossip about bonuses, as banks announce their awards and it becomes clear how stressed markets and political pressure are affecting compensation.
  • FIG
    Mikkel Grønlykke has been made Citi’s head of banking for Denmark, joining Eirik Winter’s Nordic management team.
  • Eusebio Garre has decided to leave his position as head of funding at Deutsche Postbank, ending a 15 year stint at the bank.
  • FIG
    The suggestion by the UK’s Financial Services Authority that hostile bank takeovers should be banned in the light of the disastrous experience of RBS’s takeover of parts of ABN Amro in 2007 was met with scepticism by senior bankers this week.
  • Banks are being forced to rationalise their FIG desks to respond to the expected sharp drop in senior unsecured issuance next year. Covered bond specialists suggested that FIG syndicators and DCM bankers whose markets had dried up were looking to muscle in on covered bonds. Around 75% of FIG volume has come from the secured funding product this year.
  • FIG
    Banks are being forced to rationalise their FIG desks to respond to the expected sharp drop in senior unsecured issuance next year.