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Artificial intelligence is changing the investment banking game. But banks are divided on whether to cut costs or try and win more deals
Ex-Crédit Agricole banker to be based in Paris
Édouard Sauce had been with the firm for almost a decade
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The Wirecard scandal — like other recent debacles such as NMC Health — shows that financial reporting, oversight and governance, as they are currently practised, are woefully inadequate.
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Short sellers who for years have complained that BaFin, the German financial markets regulator, ignored their criticisms of Wirecard, the collapsed payments company, and instead prosecuted the critics, have begun to be vindicated with the news that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a review into the organisation. By Silas Brown.
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The US Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) has updated its reference rate guidance for the move away from dollar Libor that removes the need to get a lending syndicate’s consent. But trade bodies on both sides of the Atlantic do not agree on the details, writes Mike Turner, and some lawyers claim that major issues still need to be addressed before the ARRC-recommended method can work. -
EU leaders meet this weekend to hash out the multi-annual financial framework — the €1tr plan guiding the bloc’s next seven years of spending. The budget contains the €750bn recovery fund, which will likely prove a contentious topic but, if approved, it could reshape the European economy and lead to big changes in its public sector bond market. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Huge capital markets revenues helped US banks stack up more provisions against loan losses in the second quarter, as they prepare to weather the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. But analysts warn that firms will not be able to repeat this trick in the second half of 2020, with trading and underwriting returns likely to climb down from their peaks.
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Financial institutions are set to spend the summer months monitoring conditions for issuance in order to continue funding this year or to frontload funding needs for next year, according to deal arrangers.
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