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  • Lloyds Banking Group sold its remaining stake in Standard Life Aberdeen after the market closed on Thursday night in a £344.3m block trade.
  • Five Nordic banks have banded together for a Nordic Know Your Customer (KYC) venture that would cater to large and mid-sized Nordic corporates — an example of the kind of shared infrastructure project that banks need to bring their costs down.
  • Goldman Sachs and three other major banks have signed up to the project to build a joint electronic bookbuilding system for the US investment grade market, joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, and JP Morgan and giving the new platform a strong shot at total market dominance. Goldman’s merchant banking arm sold Ipreo, the main rival to the new project, last week.
  • London’s future as a financial centre is under scrutiny but one rapidly expanding boutique advisory firm is pinning its future strategy on the city, writes David Rothnie.
  • HSBC’s financial sponsors team has been hit with another departure in a move linked to the ousting of Matthew Westerman as co-head of global banking last year.
  • Ahead of its AGM on Thursday in Frankfurt, Deutsche Bank announced it had finished the review of its equities business, and planned to cut headcount and prime finance leverage by a quarter — as part of package of cuts that will see more than 7,000 jobs lost at the bank.