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  • HSBC’s new global banking boss has quietly redesigned the division and fleshed out a cohesive corporate finance strategy that plays to its strengths, writes David Rothnie.
  • Darren Novak, head of activist defence at UBS, has moved from New York to London, with the bank seeing an opportunity to improve its service for European companies seeking to deal with activist investors.
  • The co-head of HSBC’s global capital markets business is moving to New York as the bank looks to win more market share in US leveraged finance.
  • Metro Bank has successfully offloaded a mortgage portfolio to Cerberus, is planning to raise debt capital for its minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL), and is finding a new chair to replace founder Vernon Hill, it said in its second quarter results on Wednesday.
  • It was set of gruelling results for Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment bank on Wednesday, with revenues from debt underwriting, equity underwriting, advisory and equity trading all underperforming peers that have already posted figures. Meanwhile, the group as a whole recorded substantial charges from its restructuring plans but said this would not impact its capital ratio much.
  • Metro Bank confirmed on Monday that it was planning to sell a portfolio of loans, following a report over the weekend from Sky News, with Cerberus in the frame to buy back the same Capital Home Loans mortgages it sold to Metro in 2017.