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HSBC has hired a new head of equity and credit risk management for Asia Pacific, EuroWeek Asia can reveal.
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Bankers criticised Mervyn King this week after the Bank of England governor suggested that bespoke capital products such as contingent convertibles (Cocos) were not suitable to fill the capital buffers of too-big-to-fail banks.
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Three US agencies published final rules for risk-based capital on Tuesday, bringing in the Collins Amendment of Dodd-Frank and leaving Basel II dead in the water in the US. Meanwhile, Barry Zubrow, chief risk officer of JP Morgan, told Congress that the right level of capital was "about what JP Morgan" had going into the crisis — and roundly rejected any surcharge for systemically important institutions under Basel III.
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The capital and funding profiles of UK banks will change sharply if retail ring-fencing proposals — endorsed by the Chancellor George Osborne this week — come into effect, FIG DCM heads told EuroWeek.
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Philip Cracknell, global head of loan syndications at Standard Chartered, is taking over the global capital markets business until the bank finds a long-term replacement for Christian Wait. Cracknell has also been made deputy group head of capital markets on a permanent basis.