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In their different ways, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Nomura and Barclays have come to define the successes and challenges that have shaped banking in the past decade. -
Seventeen years ago, the 9/11 attacks were a black swan event for financial markets and the broader economy. Now, insurance firm Aon is examining terrorism risk as part of a wider aim to close insurance protection gaps and transfer risk to the capital markets.
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Imagining capital markets and investment banking in 2018 without the global financial crisis is a big leap. The chaos and turmoil of 2008 deeply scarred traders, bankers and regulators and defined the intellectual imperatives for the changes that followed — the wholesale revamp of prudential and markets regulation, the bailouts, the reorganisations, the new monetary tools and new ways of seeing the world. But the past 10 years haven’t all been about the crisis.
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Citi has overhauled the structure of its investment bank, merging its capital markets and corporate and investment banking divisions into a newly formed unit and instigating a shake-up of senior talent.
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Fund investors have taken on the senior debt supporting a €1.4bn acquisition of a Bank of Cyprus non-performing loan portfolio by Apollo Global Management last week, despite its lack of a rating.
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Banks’ stakeholders are demanding ever-stricter standards on sustainability. Rather than simply issuing green bonds as a standalone initiative, financial institutions must look at their business as a whole. By Jasper Cox.
