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• Pru discusses ‘strategic’ triple trancher

  

  Prudential plc announced on Tuesday plans to issue three tranches of long-dated subordinated debt as it prepares to spin off M&G Prudential. The notes are set to feature a clause allowing the financial institution to transfer them to the proposed new holding company for its UK and European business.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• Morgan Stanley moves senior banker to target US NPL business

  

  Morgan Stanley has transferred one of its senior structured finance bankers to New York as part of an initiative to win more business from US financial institutions looking to shift problematic consumer loans off balance sheet.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• ‘Have you forgotten your brothers?’

  

  Those at Lehman Brothers on Monday, September 15, 2008 will remember the moment the lines between the London and New York offices went dead.

  • 13 Sep 2018

• Endless upheaval: life after Lehman

  

  In their different ways, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Nomura and Barclays have come to define the successes and challenges that have shaped banking in the past decade.

  • 13 Sep 2018

• Aon tasks team with resolving protection gap

  

  Seventeen years ago, the 9/11 attacks were a black swan event for financial markets and the broader economy. Now, insurance firm Aon is examining terrorism risk as part of a wider aim to close insurance protection gaps and transfer risk to the capital markets.

  • 12 Sep 2018

• 10 things that changed in 10 years that had nothing to do with Lehman

  

  Imagining capital markets and investment banking in 2018 without the global financial crisis is a big leap. The chaos and turmoil of 2008 deeply scarred traders, bankers and regulators and defined the intellectual imperatives for the changes that followed — the wholesale revamp of prudential and markets regulation, the bailouts, the reorganisations, the new monetary tools and new ways of seeing the world. But the past 10 years haven’t all been about the crisis.

  • 11 Sep 2018

• Citi revamps CIB amid changing of the guard

  

  Citi has overhauled the structure of its investment bank, merging its capital markets and corporate and investment banking divisions into a newly formed unit and instigating a shake-up of senior talent.

  • 06 Sep 2018

• NPL, AT1 sales buttress Bank of Cyprus’s capital

  

  Fund investors have taken on the senior debt supporting a €1.4bn acquisition of a Bank of Cyprus non-performing loan portfolio by Apollo Global Management last week, despite its lack of a rating.

  • 03 Sep 2018

• Banks forced to design strategy for Europe’s green finance push

  

  Banks’ stakeholders are demanding ever-stricter standards on sustainability. Rather than simply issuing green bonds as a standalone initiative, financial institutions must look at their business as a whole. By Jasper Cox.

  • 31 Aug 2018

• Sustainable Development Goals show their worth for investors

  The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were not specifically designed for finance, something that perhaps helps to explain their popularity among responsible investors, institutions and borrowers. But this does not mean that factoring them into investing decisions is easy, reports Jasper Cox.

  • 29 Aug 2018

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