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• Goldman confirms Blankfein’s retirement, Solomon to replace

  

  Goldman Sachs announced on Tuesday that chief executive and chairman Lloyd Blankfein will retire, and David Solomon will replace him in both roles.

  • 17 Jul 2018

• Petitgas, Pick on the rise at Morgan Stanley

  

  Morgan Stanley has promoted two of its most senior investment bankers as it continues to rotate its senior talent, part of its succession plan under chief executive James Gorman.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• RBC raises corporate finance ambitions after Melrose victory

  

  RBC Capital Markets is rightly proud of a transformative mandate on Melrose's GKN acquisition, but its ambition shows no sign of waning as it shrugs off senior departures, writes David Rothnie.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• Crédit Agricole CIB names Ripoll as new chief exec

  

  Crédit Agricole said on Wednesday that it has reorganised the senior management of its corporate and investment bank, and hired Jacques Ripoll, former head of global banking and markets at Santander, as its new CIB chief executive.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• RBC takes HSBC's Tufts for sponsors push

  

  Graham Tufts has left his position as vice chairman of leveraged and acquisition finance at HSBC and is understood to be joining Royal Bank of Canada in a senior role.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• HSBC hires for sponsors and leveraged finance

  

  HSBC has hired two bankers, one from Credit Suisse and one from UBS, to strengthen its business with private equity firms and in offering leveraged financing.

  • 11 Jul 2018

• Head to Head with Standard Bank CIB boss Kenny Fihla: betting big on Africa

  Africa has been having a rough ride in the capital markets in 2018 — credit spreads are up and local currencies have taken a beating. But Kenny Fihla, chief executive of Standard Bank CIB, says opportunities abound for banks, risks can be mitigated and the continent is only getting more attractive for Asian investors. He spoke to GlobalCapital’s emerging markets editor Francesca Young and people and markets reporter Nell Mackenzie.

  • 11 Jul 2018

• Deutsche eyes dual bond licences in China

  

  In a sign of warming relations between China and Germany, Chinese authorities said they would let Deutsche Bank underwrite corporate bonds in the interbank market. The bank is hoping to grab two different types of underwriting licences, GlobalRMB has learned.

  • 10 Jul 2018

• ‘Need to know’ rules cause confidentiality consternation

  

  The FICC Market Standards Board’s statement of good practice on information and confidentiality in fixed income markets is causing consternation in some investment banks, by threatening to limit the flow of information in the opposite direction to the one that is traditionally seen as problematic.

  • 05 Jul 2018

• Nomura slashes EMEA markets business as pressure mounts on volumes.

  

  Nomura has unveiled a big redundancy round in its EMEA global markets operation, with more than 50 front office staff at risk. The move comes as volumes in European fixed income disappoint once again, setting banks up for a rough set of second quarter numbers.

  • 05 Jul 2018

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