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  • Jefferies is enjoying unprecedented success in EMEA as it exploits dislocation among European rivals to snap up staff. But the US bank's hard-driving performance culture is not for everyone, writes David Rothnie.
  • Barclays’ breakneck pace of investment into its trading businesses has borne some fruit in the third quarter of this year, with a 19% increase in markets income to £1.16bn. But banking was softer, and the results do not yet allow the firm to dismiss demands from Edward Bramson, the activist investor, to shrink the investment bank.
  • BNP Paribas has shaken up the structure of its corporate and institutional bank, disbanding its long-standing corporate finance unit and making a string of senior appointments.
  • London Stock Exchange Group on Friday announced that it would increase its stake in London-based clearing house company LCH Group by up to 15.1%, bringing its holdings to over 80%.
  • JP Morgan has risen to the top of Dealogic’s euro denominated SSA (excluding US agencies) bookrunner league table to keep it within touching distance of taking the reins from HSBC at the end of the year.
  • NatWest has become the first bank to integrate with a new blockchain-based platform that the UK lender says will “dramatically transform and streamline” the £3.5tr global syndicated loans market.