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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The bank’s role on the world’s biggest technology M&A deal has turned a tough year into a potentially memorable one, but the bank still has a way to go to rebuild its corporate finance business, writes David Rothnie.
  • UBS's Investment Bank has shaken up the management of its corporate clients solutions (CCS) division in a series of moves that sees long-serving co-head William Vereker move to a executive vice chair role as the bank implements a regional management structure.