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Originator hired to go after bank bond issues in euros and dollars
With Sergio Ermotti set to step down as group CEO, chairman Colm Kelleher favours an orderly, internal succession. But in a critical year for the bank, there could be turbulence ahead
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China’s extraordinary liberalisation of its financial markets last week, which cleared the way for foreign ownership of a range of financial institutions, has only found mild enthusiasm among foreign banks so far. They can be forgiven for not immediately breaking out the champagne. -
The European Parliament’s legal service has hit back against a proposal by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make banks provision non-performing loans (NPLs) more aggressively, as analysts grilled the management teams from Italy’s largest banks on how they could handle the problem.
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The head of Deutsche Bank’s corporate finance operation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa says he is on track with a multi-year plan to restore the German lender as a driving force in the region, after a year of recruitment and restructuring.
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Unclogging the balance sheets of Europe’s banks has been a long and painful process, and one that has inhibited the region’s growth and recovery. But, as Bill Thornhill reports, the first securitization of non-performing loans without a government guarantee by a Portuguese bank this week is a crucial development for Europe’s heavily burdened banking sector.
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Ipreo’s Investor Access product, which allows investors to place orders for new bond issues directly into the book, and receive deal updates without the intervention of banks’ sales teams, has had a string of new banks sign up in the year since it launched. But some of the biggest players in the bond market have yet to commit.
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Amid all of the hand-wringing about the advent of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on January 3, there are some firms which are set to be clear winners, and welcome the start of the controversial regulation.
