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Ex-Crédit Agricole banker to be based in Paris
Édouard Sauce had been with the firm for almost a decade
As JP Morgan brings its Security and Resilience Initiative to Europe, Craig Coben uncovers what it takes to make such an effort pay off rather than fizzle out as a piece of flashy marketing
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The European Central Bank is offering renewed support to the idea of the EU creating a ‘bad bank’ or an asset management company to manage a flood of non-performing loans engulfing European banks, fuelling expectations that this will be part of the European Commission’s forthcoming NPL strategy. Jon Hay and Owen Sanderson report.
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Alantra, the boutique investment bank in Spain, wants to expand its securitization franchise beyond its existing strengths in NPL deals, boosting its position as an advisor for specialist lenders in performing credit and structurer of risk transfer deals for Europe’s smaller banks. Francesco Dissera, who started at the firm in mid-October, will lead the team’s growth efforts.
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Natixis said on Thursday that it was promoting two bankers to co-heads of CIB, following Marc Vincent’s move to global head of M&A. -
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena confirmed on Thursday that it was looking at options to strengthen its capital position, with the full support of the Italian government. Trading had already been heating up in its tier twos, as investors have been forced to consider whether a capital raise will require burden sharing under EU state aid rules.
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Société Générale’s third quarter investment banking figures showed a sharp improvement from earlier in the year, as the impact of the European dividend cancellations and losses on complex structured products washed out of the numbers. But the French firm’s financing activities, geared more to aircraft and project lending than its rivals, have seen less benefit from booming corporate debt markets.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced plans to explore the potential uses and implications of a central bank digital currency using distributed ledger technology. The RBA follows the Banque de France, which last year worked with Société Générale to settle a crypto covered bond — a product that offers a number of ways to deploy blockchain technology.
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