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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

• Brace for more Burford-style rows if QE ramps up

  

  Burford Capital, the litigation funder, is under pressure over how it accounts for an obscure type of asset and how it finances its business using debt. In many respects it is a unique case, but it is a debacle fuelled by quantitative easing. With more of that on the way, pushing investors into ever more esoteric asset classes in the quest for yield, there will be plenty more businesses under scrutiny.

  • 13 Aug 2019

• Burford bonds and shares in muddy water after short seller attack

  

  Burford Capital’s debt and equity securities rebounded on Thursday, after the firm rebutted claims from short seller Muddy Waters Research that it was "arguably insolvent". The episode brought some rare excitement to the sterling retail bond market, but is perhaps emblematic of its decline over the past few years. Meanwhile, investors appeared undecided over whether Muddy Waters’ claims about the litigation funder were correct.

  • 09 Aug 2019

• Redding Ridge picks up CLO portfolio manager from Pretium

  

  Apollo subsidiary Redding Ridge has hired Pretium Partners executive John D’Angelo as CLO portfolio manager in New York.

  • 08 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

• Senior DCM banker leaves Credit Suisse

  

  Credit Suisse's head of Greater China debt capital markets has quit the bank, according to sources.

  • 07 Aug 2019

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