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Citigroup has hired a director from HSBC for its Italian and Greek FIG team, EuroWeek can reveal.
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A strong increase in advisory revenues in the first quarter of 2011 was not enough to outweigh a big decrease in the performance of UBS’s ECM franchise and a drop in FICC revenues, as the bank reported a 30% fall in pre-tax profits in its investment bank on Tuesday.
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Damon Mahon will be joining Royal Bank of Scotland’s syndicate desk to work on securitisation, filling the spot left when Tim Michael went to Citi in September last year. Harman Dhami has been covering FIG and ABS simultaneously, while volumes in the ABS market have been growing (65% up year on year, according to research from Société Générale).
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Royal Bank of Scotland’s Dutch FIG origination head and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg’s southern Europe FIG origination head have both quit in recent weeks, EuroWeek can reveal.
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If investors needed any more indications that achieving return on equity targets is getting harder for banks as regulatory uncertainty continues, they got them loud and clear from Goldman Sachs’ first quarter results on Tuesday. The bank posted Q1 return on equity of 12.2%, down from 20% in the same quarter of 2010.
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RBS on Wednesday launched sweeping changes to the structure of its global banking and markets division, shifting its banking operation from a global model to a regional one, bringing together DCM and derivatives in the EMEA region, creating a new vertical silo dedicated to financial institutions and putting in place global structures for syndicate and FICC sales.