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• CS Apac unit sees turnaround in markets

  

  Credit Suisse’s Asia Pacific unit reported first quarter results that were markedly better than last year as the bank’s struggling markets business turned around and cost cutting bore fruit.

  • 12:00 PM

• Deutsche Bank calls time on global adventure

  

  Deutsche Bank unveiled another major restructuring on Thursday, rebranding itself as a European bank with global reach, and promising to cut back on local commitments in the US and Asia, as well as slashing US rates, global equtiies, and prime finance. The announcement came alongside results which one analyst described as “a relatively poor set even by Deutsche Bank standards”.

  • 10:15 AM

• Metro plans bond but analysts focus on equity needs

  

  Metro Bank, the UK challenger lender, said on Wednesday that it was expecting to issue tier two this year. But analysts thought it was equity that the bank would be pushed to raise, as its common equity tier one (CET1) ratio dropped further.

  • 25 Apr 2018

• MiFID boosting the biggest as US banks see equity strength

  

  Analysts saw early signs of MiFID-driven consolidation when US banks published their first quarter results that included strong equity trading performances across the board.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• Morgan Stanley shoots lights out in European securitization

  

  As the major US banks reporting strong performances for the first quarter this week, Morgan Stanley boss James Gorman and chief financial officer Jonathan Pruzan picked out their European securitization operation out for praise, on the back of financing activity for legacy portfolios.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• Settlement bargain for Barclays on legacy RMBS

  

  Barclays’ decision to carry on its legacy RMBS fight in 2016, rather than settle as Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank did, has paid off handsomely, with a $2bn civil settlement for the bank and $2m for the two bankers at the centre of the suit announced last Thursday.

  • 29 Mar 2018

• Staley tells all about his investment in FICC

  

  Jes Staley opened up this week, explaining why Barclays has taken a contrarian bet to dedicate more balance sheet to the markets division of its investment bank this year.

  • 22 Mar 2018

• How to take big losses and still boost capital

  

  The EU’s lenient treatment of the IFRS 9 accounting rules has opened a loophole for Italian banks — allowing them to push through punishing provisions on their NPL portfolios, but wish away the impact on their regulatory capital — which could save the weakest banks from turning to shareholders for more cash, and speed up portfolio sales.

  • 08 Mar 2018

• StanChart sticks to strategic bet on renminbi

  

  Standard Chartered announced solid profit growth for 2017, with the bank underlining that the rise of renminbi will continue to present business opportunities for the group, and that the currency could make up 5% of global payments by 2020.

  • 02 Mar 2018

• Barclays trading assets balloon as bank gets back in the game

  

  Barclays reported annual results on Thursday, revealing the huge scale of the firm’s trading balance sheet expansion in 2017, as it scales back up in its historical strength of macro trading. But the low volatility last year weighed on returns, and the growth in the trading book has yet to deliver the profits it hopes for.

  • 22 Feb 2018

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