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Barclays has continued to beef up its corporate broking presence, a central plank of its UK growth strategy, by recruiting Deutsche Bank’s former head of corporate broking. -
South Africa’s Absa is looking to establish a corporate and investment banking unit in London, and is actively in the process of hiring DCM and syndicate bankers, according to sources.
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HSBC announced changes to clean up its regulatory capital profile in results last Friday. But it was accused of favouring shareholders over debtholders by issuing additional tier one (AT1) debt at the same time as buying back equity.
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Société Générale said on Thursday that deputy CEO Séverin Cabannes would take over supervision of global banking and investor solutions, a role vacated by Didier Valet over the bank's Libor investigation.
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MeDirect, the former Mediterranean Bank, has hired Michael Curtis as chief investment officer, ahead of a planned push into the credit markets that will see the firm boost corporate lending and related activities. Curtis was most recently at ICG.
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Bank of China (BoC) plans to play to its strengths by deploying its balance sheet and providing liquidity to parched investors. With syndicate and trading operations in place, it has hired Tim Skeet as head of Western European origination.
