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• HSBC plucks Welsh in UK coverage push

  

  Ed Welsh will join HSBC in November as global head of business services, although his work is expected to be heavily centred around the UK, as the bank ramps up efforts to gain market share among the country’s biggest listed firms.

  • 20 Aug 2019

• Barclays gives Blackman UK coverage job

  

  Alastair Blackman, formerly a top media investment banker at Deutsche Bank, will be developing relationships with the heads of UK firms on behalf of Barclays from next month.

  • 20 Aug 2019

• People moves in brief

  

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch hires fintech chief — Perella Weinberg builds European restructuring team — UniCredit finds SSA trading boss.

  • 15 Aug 2019

• Perella Weinberg hires again in Europe restructuring push

  

  Romain Lanier has joined Perella Weinberg Partners from fellow advisory firm PJT Partners to be a managing director in the European financial restructuring team.

  • 14 Aug 2019

• Risk costs snag Commerz as outlook worsens

  

  Michael Reuther, head of Commerzbank’s corporate clients division, expects more firms to enter the bank’s "intensive care department" as economic pressures weigh on European corporates. And in his unit the cost of risk more than tripled in the second quarter, helping to shrink operating profits.

  • 07 Aug 2019

• Barings extends lending push with €1.5bn fund

  

  Barings has raised €1.5bn for its second European private loan fund, as the asset manager looks to grow a business that has seen the company lend €3bn over the last two years.

  • 07 Aug 2019

• KKR to bolster Axel Springer buyout package with €935m loan

  

  Axel Springer's shareholders have given a green light to a public-to-private takeover offer from KKR, which values the German media company at €6.7bn.

  • 05 Aug 2019

• Commerz names head of syndicated and leveraged finance

  

  Commerzbank has appointed its first head of syndicated and leveraged finance, a unit created within its new capital markets division.

  • 05 Aug 2019

• Gender bond pioneer to combat ‘vulture funds’ in Ireland

  

  Paul Byrne, the treasurer who helped structure the first additional tier one (AT1) gender equality bond, is joining Quartech, the asset manager of HomeOptions, an ESG not-for-profit firm that aims to challenge private equity funds purchasing mortgage portfolios in Ireland.

  • 01 Aug 2019

• BNP Paribas takes Nomura’s McNaught for UK advisory

  

  Andrew McNaught will lead BNP Paribas’ UK advisory team from the end of the month, as the French bank plans to develop its corporate operations in the country “further, faster”.

  • 01 Aug 2019

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