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  • Crédit Agricole CIB has hired a ‘head of international’, a new role at the bank’s global markets division. Gene Kim joins from Standard Chartered, and will oversee the markets business in the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
  • Crédit Agricole CIB plans to restart its equity derivatives business, and start issuing structured notes with equity underlyings, according to the bank’s head of global markets. The bank sold a €12.5bn notional equity derivatives book to BNP Paribas in 2013, but now plans to get back into the business through its new “Equity Solutions” division.
  • Credit Suisse has named Brian Chin, the co-head of credit, as chief executive of global markets, replacing Tim O'Hara.
  • With another slew of mediocre investment banking results due, there’s a renewed round of calls for 'radical visions' and 'thinking outside the box'. But, while thinking the unthinkable has its merits, it’s the hard, detailed work inside the box that pays the bills.
  • Sébastien Domanico has started in his job as head of debt capital markets at Crédit Agricole CIB, after a long run of gardening leave. The firm's previous DCM head, Tim Hall, departed in July.
  • Though Crédit Agricole is rarely considered one of the glitziest houses in the capital markets, a target of doubling revenues in global markets in five years’ time stands in sharp contrast to the gloom pervading its peers. It’s a plausible plan, too — the future belongs to the well-capitalised.