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• Axiom: NPEs down overall, but worst performers are surprising

  

  EU banks have drastically reduced their non-performing exposures over the past year, and the weakest lenders in terms of provisioning shortfalls are not from Europe’s periphery, according to research by Axiom Alternative Investments. However, one bank labelled as one of the worst performers told GlobalCapital that the data must be incorrect.

  • 01:00 PM

• Kensington Mortgages renews warehouse line with BNP and Citi

  

  Kensington Mortgages has announced the renewal of its warehouse line of credit with BNP Paribas and Citibank, giving it the ability to fund nearly £1bn worth of new originations.

  • 16 Jan 2019

• Santander cancels Orcel appointment over deferred comp cost

  

  Santander said it would not be hiring Andrea Orcel as group chief executive after all, because the cost of buying him out of previous compensation awarded at UBS would be too high. José Antonio Álvarez will remain chief executive, as he was before Santander announced in September that Orcel would join the firm.

  • 15 Jan 2019

• MUFG hires Mann for FIG in Paris

  

  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has appointed Jason Mann as European head of financial institutions DCM, a role which will be based in a branch of the bank’s new subsidiary, established to prepare for Brexit.

  • 15 Jan 2019

• Chinese funding activity in CEE set for sustained growth

  

  China’s activity in central and eastern Europe is set to further swell in 2019, as Chinese financial institutions continue to extend their reach and cement themselves as primary lenders in EMEA's emerging markets.

  • 15 Jan 2019

• Agarwal on banking: ‘I loved the work we did’

  

  Capital markets veteran Sandeep Agarwal speaks to GlobalCapital about his decision to leave the sector after a period of more than 20 years, reflecting on what he describes as the ‘best learning experience’ he could have asked for following the financial crisis. As he prepares for a new challenge outside of banking, Agarwal warns that the industry is not ‘out of the woods yet’.

  • 14 Jan 2019

• New UK RMBS issuance to be sold to US clients

  

  A handful of prime UK RMBS deals are rumoured to be in the pipeline, along with several prime euro transactions, with issuers said to be targeting US investors while they wait for the fog to clear around new ‘simple, transparent, standardised’ (STS) rules.

  • 14 Jan 2019

• Legal experts butt heads on STS application for US issuers

  

  Law firms are struggling to see eye to eye on how to interpret “simple, transparent and standardised” (STS) transparency requirements for US entities issuing in Europe.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• Credit Suisse investment banking business defies the critics

  

  Credit Suisse surprised its critics in 2018 by showing that, despite its pivot to wealth management, the European corporate finance business is robust and surprisingly well-diversified, writes David Rothnie.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• Barclays names new DCM leadership

  

  Barclays has unveiled the new structure of its management team for its global DCM and risk solutions group businesses, naming a new head of DCM for EMEA.

  • 10 Jan 2019

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