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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. -
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.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch hires fintech chief — Perella Weinberg builds European restructuring team — UniCredit finds SSA trading boss.
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Romain Lanier has joined Perella Weinberg Partners from fellow advisory firm PJT Partners to be a managing director in the European financial restructuring team.
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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.
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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.
