• SMBC Nikko’s fixed income sales and trading head makes CFO switch

  

  Isabel Mahony, who had been head of fixed income sales and trading EMEA and Asia ex-Japan at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets, has left to the firm to join children's magazine Scoop as chief financial officer.

  • 21 Jan 2019

• Climate activists boo Larry Fink’s CEO letter

  

  Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, became one of the most namechecked people in the responsible investing movement in 2018 when he affirmed that “Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers and the communities in which they operate.”

  • 17 Jan 2019

• Investec hires Arrowsmith to run advisory

  

  Investec CIB has hired Jonathan Arrowsmith into its investment banking team as head of advisory.

  • 21 Jan 2019

• PRA suggests Brexit bonus for UK challengers

  

  UK regulators may simplify regulations for smaller banks, depending on the outcome of Brexit, and are taking a “close interest” in a US proposal for a 9% leverage ratio.

  • 21 Jan 2019

• Leveraged loan worries dominate US bank earnings

  End of year earnings calls at the US banks all featured anxieties about the exposure of the firms to a leveraged finance market that was looking increasingly stretched through year end, with some bridges said to be hung and discounts offered on risk positions.

  • 17 Jan 2019

• Barclays cuts across syndicate, LM, RSG, MTNs and advisory

  

  Barclays has made cuts across its debt capital markets business, with staff put at risk including several long serving bankers who have been with the firm for over a decade.

  • 17 Jan 2019

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