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M&A in 2026: time to summon up the blood


The US bank has won more market share in European IB than its rivals after overhauling its leadership and doubling down in the region’s biggest markets
The US bank has emerged from its restructuring to record impressive market share gains following a reboot of its financial sponsor and leveraged finance businesses
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  • Harman Dhami has joined Rabobank as head of DCM syndicate, succeeding Paul Vanner, who, after a sabbatical, will return to Rabo to further develop the bank's MTN platform.
  • Nomura said it had appointed Ralson Roberts, formerly Goldman Sachs's co-head of EMEA execution services, as chief executive of Instinet, its agency brokerage unit.
  • The Italian Interbank Deposit Protection Fund (FITD) has underwritten €320m of Banca Carige’s tier two capital notes. Private investors are now invited to subscribe to the issue, which allows the Italian lender to meet its capital targets.
  • The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has been looking into bondholder concerns after HSBC decided to reclassify four legacy bank capital instruments earlier this year, leading to a plummet in their value.
  • Bond bankers have been gripped by moves by Ben Smyth, a UBS FIG DCM banker, to take the bank to a tribunal, alleging that the global head of debt capital markets, Amir Hoveyda, had been involved in an “inappropriate transaction” and that Smyth had been bullied and passed over for promotion.
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    VTB Capital has no interest in adopting blockchain technology for banking, said Dmitry Snesar, VTB’s head of client coverage, at VTB Capital’s Russia Calling conference in Moscow this week.