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  • Christian Meissner has an exciting new position at Credit Suisse. But how far can he improve the Swiss bank’s offering to wealth management clients while also handling its culture, asks David Rothnie.
  • The Bank of England said this week that it would loosen some of the rules around the maximum distributable amount for UK banks after Brexit, making it harder for them to trigger restrictions on their additional tier one (AT1) coupons and equity dividends.
  • Much of European rule making in wider society has been about preventing infection spreading to the elderly of late. But the European Banking Authority has instead weighed in on the "infection risk" that stems from grandfathered securities.
  • The European Central Bank said this week that it thought a stronger role for countercyclical capital buffers would be key in making sure that banks use their available resources to boost lending in times of crisis.
  • The UK government has said that banks will still be able to make investor distributions if they fall below their minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) after Brexit — in an early of sign of divergence from the EU rulebook.
  • HSBC provided $1.8bn of financing to high carbon companies including Kepco, which is developing new coal plants, in just five deals in the past four months, as it prepared to announce its “net zero ambition” on October 9, an NGO has alleged.