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  • National Bank of Abu Dhabi revealed its new capital markets leadership on Thursday, following the bank’s merger with First Gulf Bank.
  • P&M Notebook
    E-trading is starting to touch even the slowest, least liquid corners of credit. It’s less powerful than its most convinced adherents hope, but it’s coming, like it or not.
  • Tim Throsby, the former JP Morgan equities head who recently joined Barclays as chief executive of its corporate and investment bank, has made his first major appointment, asking Art Mbanefo, head of EMEA and APAC markets, to take on a new role spanning treasury, capital management, and client-facing markets roles.
  • Deutsche Bank’s rights issue and strategic revamp is well-timed, and ticks all the right boxes. The hard part will be to regain the top-dog status it craves in European corporate finance at a time of low staff morale, writes David Rothnie.
  • ABS
    Bloomberg is trying to drag European ABS trading into the digital age, signing up several banks to start providing quotes on its ALLQ system for core, prime European ABS asset classes. Some dealers, though, struggle to see the benefit.
  • HSBC is understood to be considering transferring a banker from London to take over leveraged and acquisition finance responsibilities for Asia Pacific. This follows the departures of senior Hong Kong-based bankers from the levfin and sponsor coverage teams last month.