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With Sergio Ermotti set to step down as group CEO, chairman Colm Kelleher favours an orderly, internal succession. But in a critical year for the bank, there could be turbulence ahead
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Metro Bank completed its long awaited equity capital raise on Thursday night, providing a rare bit of good news to UK bankers and investors despondent over a tortuous Brexit process. -
The new president of the World Bank used one of his first public speeches this week to call for comprehensive transparency over countries’ “hidden” debt burdens that make it harder to resolve a financial crisis.
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Metro Bank shareholders are nursing losses of around 70% since the start of the year. But if this is the worst of UK banking’s problems right now, the sector is in pretty good shape as it faces Brexit and digital disruption.
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Commerzbank’s small and medium sized German corporate clients did not want to be serviced by the firm if it were merged with Deutsche Bank, according to Michael Reuther, head of the corporate clients unit at the former. His unit is now hoping to take more revenue from its existing clients, after growth in several of them in the first quarter.
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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) went to market today to issue a six-tranche euro and a two tranche sterling deal. It intends to raise debt to finance the acquisition of Worldpay as announced last month.
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Metro Bank, the embattled UK challenger bank, is expected to launch its planned £350m equity capital raise in the coming days after the bank was forced to quash rumours of financial instability on social media over the weekend. It may also sell or securitize some loans.
