Latest LevFin people & market news

• JPM’s chief regulatory officer and Sofr architect to retire

  

  Sandra O’Connor, chief regulatory officer at JPMorgan Chase, is retiring from the firm on April 1, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital.

  • 20 Feb 2019

• EU Parliament calls for ‘brown’ category in green Taxonomy

  

  Members of the European Parliament are planning to add a controversial ‘non-sustainable’ category to the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities proposed last year by the EU Commission. Two Brussels sources have told GlobalCapital the Parliament's vote on the issue, scheduled for Wednesday February 20, has been postponed after heavy pressure from corporate lobbyists.

  • 18 Feb 2019

• Levfin and a bad block weigh on Credit Suisse

  

  Credit Suisse’s fourth quarter results showed damage from the high yield and leveraged finance market’s tantrum in the last quarter of 2018. The bank was also hit by a Canada Goose block trade gone wrong.

  • 14 Feb 2019

• People moves in brief

  Santander hires European ABS trading head – Créd Ag shuffles CIB – Liquidnet appoints president

  • 14 Feb 2019

• UBS pivots from FIG to GIG

  

  UBS is re-balancing its corporate finance business to end its reliance on its Financial Institutions Group with impressive results, writes David Rothnie.

  • 14 Feb 2019

• Nikko Asset Management adds to London high yield credit team

  Nikko Asset Management said it had hired Richard Kehoe as senior high yield analyst for its global fixed income team in London.

  • 11 Feb 2019

• Raters, investors ‘should cooperate’ on ESG

  

  Rating agencies and investors are realising they have more in common than they thought when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. And they are more inclined now to work together than find fault.

  • 07 Feb 2019

• JP Morgan looks to burnish jewel in the crown

  

  JP Morgan has overhauled its European management team as it places its oldest franchise at the heart of a push to boost its UK M&A business.

  • 07 Feb 2019

• UK plc suffers but Brexit outcome could give boost

  

  Capital market sentiment in the UK has weakened as the country awaits the detail of its scheduled departure from the EU, if a couple of indicators published this week are anything to go by. However, even a bad Brexit could be welcomed by corporate financiers.

  • 06 Feb 2019

• Former head of Lloyds loan markets moves on

  

  Lloyds Bank's former head of loan markets, who subsequently became its global head of industrials and manufacturing, has left the bank.

  • 05 Feb 2019

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