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Tom Montag, the new head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investment bank is expected to name his senior management team at the beginning of September. With the firm’s integration largely complete, and investment bankers already able to call on balance sheet firepower, insiders are excited about the prospects for a fresh start, writes David Rothnie.
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UBS this week showed that its troubled fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) unit still has the power to recruit big names as it announced a sweeping series of hires. Dimitri Psyllidis, a former head of Merrill’s European FICC business, led the list of 27 bankers hired by UBS FICC co-heads Carsten Kengeter and Jeffrey Mayer in Europe, Asia and the US over recent weeks.
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The UK’s Financial Services Authority has softened its approach to bank bonuses in its final rules on remuneration published this week.
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Standard Chartered continued its capital markets hiring spree this week as it recruited Cristian Jonsson, a former UBS banker, to run its global debt syndicate business from Singapore.
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The resurgence of profitability among key European financial institutions in just a few short months since the spring low was underlined by this week’s slew of bank results.
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The European Commission has ploughed ahead with its reform of banking regulation, publishing a consultation paper on a framework for counter-cyclical capital buffers and changes to the risk weighting of mortgages.