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  • Reports that Barclays will exit its African operations, known locally as Absa, have left emerging market bond and loan bankers puzzling what future the firm has in the region — historically one of its strengths within CEEMEA — but it is thought it will leave the UK firm better capitalised.
  • The Asian debt capital market did not have an easy 2015 with numerous macro and political headwinds causing a fall in new issuance. While jittery conditions are here to stay, Clifford Lee, head of fixed income for DBS, told GlobalCapital Asia that his business is well positioned to combat the volatility.
  • The merger between capital financing and banking is a logical staging post in the transformation of HSBC’s investment banking aspirations, writes David Rothnie
  • HSBC has hired Matthew Westerman, former chairman of EMEA investment banking at Goldman Sachs, as co-head of global banking. The division will expand to take in capital financing and the larger clients from commercial banking.
  • The Asian DCM market did not have an easy 2015 with numerous macro and political headwinds causing a fall in new issuance. While jittery conditions are here to stay, Clifford Lee, head of fixed income for DBS, told GlobalCapital Asia that his business is well positioned to combat the volatility.
  • Crédit Agricole penned an €18bn deal to simplify its complex ownership structure, something investors have long criticised, to boost its capital base and allow it to pay dividends fully in cash.