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Stephane Bataille, head of syndicate & FIG origination at Landesbank Baden Württemberg in Stuttgart, is expected to leave the firm and join Commerzbank’s FIG origination team in Frankfurt next year. This is the latest in a long line of departures and illustrates the changing fortunes of the two German banks.
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Gary Jenkins, one of London’s best known credit analysts, has resigned from Evolution Securities where he was head of fixed income. EuroWeek understands he will not be joining another firm. However, it is unlikely he will be out of balance sheets for long — friends and colleagues believe he is contemplating setting up his own credit research business.
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Risk-weighted assets may be paramount for the European Banking Authority, but the Bank of England has resolved to spend more time worrying about leverage. The December report of the BoE’s Financial Policy Committee, which was published on Thursday, has recommended that UK banks start disclosing their leverage ratios as early as 2013.
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Letters written to the Economic Affairs Committee of the UK’s House of Lords by the country’s biggest banks, published on Thursday, have shed light on bankers’ thinking about the costs of implementing reforms suggested by the Independent Commission on Banking.
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Austria has laid out plans to fast-track CRD IV capital rules for its largest banks to ensure that the business models of subsidiaries exposed to southeast, central and eastern Europe are put on a more sustainable footing.