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HSBC’s new app for issuers, shortly to be rolled out across the bank’s primary markets divisions and downloaded by clients directly, is a welcome change for a market that’s seen limited technological progress. It’s a clear step forward, and likely to be copied widely. But this could be the very worst outcome for issuers. -
Interdealer broker TP ICAP revealed on Tuesday that it had chosen Paris as its post-Brexit hub in the European Union, as new CEO Nicolas Breteau called for the flexibility to pay company brokers the "market rate".
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Barclays ramped up its leverage and commitments to repo and prime finance, helping the firm’s markets business score a revenue bump of 11% and beat analyst expectations, largely thanks to surging numbers from the bank’s equities business.
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Deutsche Bank's decision to clear around half of its euro swaps business in Europe might have caused a stir in the Square Mile this week but a closer look at the overall clearing numbers show that London continues to dominate the global swap clearing markets, writes Ross Lancaster.
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NatWest Markets has come a long way since the dark days of its repeated restructurings. For a while, RBS was a punchline for gallows humour about the state of investment banking (not to mention the participation of the state in investment banking). Senior bankers jumped or were pushed, while the firm closed offices, sold off its US operations, trimmed its ambitions and seemed ready to settle down as a bit-part domestic player in the capital markets. But it is often darkest before the dawn.
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A group of Chinese investors lead by Zhongze Group has struck a deal to acquire Irish stockbroking group Goodbody, in the first step towards international expansion.
