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The launch of a €35bn exchange offer for Germany’s Commerzbank marks a decisive attempt to break a stalemate that has frustrated Andrea Orcel in his quest to turn UniCredit into a pan-European banking champion
Bank strives for ‘complete global offering’ in M&A and ECM but market conditions hang in the balance
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Worries about bond market liquidity went from specialist interest to global best-seller in 2015. The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve published extensively on liquidity problems in bonds; European politicians lost their appetite for regulation, fearful about doing further damage to the frail but crucial animal spirits of the bond markets. But the last year saw precious little done to solve the problem. Owen Sanderson asks whether 2016 will be better. -
The US is top of every European banking chief executive’s to-do list for 2016, as they race to comply with new regulations that will define the future of their international ambitions. Consolidation beckons, writes David Rothnie.
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European banks took their lowest ever share of global investment banking revenue, according to full year estimates from Dealogic, while US banks took their highest share since 2002. European banks earned 30% of global revenues while US banks earned 49%.
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HSBC has closed its first synthetic securitization since the crisis, and in doing so has slashed the balance sheet its corporate lending book consumed, writes Owen Sanderson.
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Amid the boardroom turmoil, strategic rethinks and headline grabbing megadeals, Europe’s most senior corporate financiers tell GlobalCapital’s David Rothnie why 2015 was a letdown and why 2016 will be better.
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For dealmakers in southeast Asia, 2015 was a year to forget. From pulled IPOs to tumbling volumes in bonds and loans, and a mid-year storm in China that reignited fears of the financial crisis, the region has seen it all. As market participants pick up the pieces, many are hoping to put a dismal year behind them. John Loh reports.
