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  • Royal Bank of Scotland has moved its leveraged finance and high yield origination and structuring team out of its investment bank and into its Commercial and Private Banking division, where it will fall inside the ringfence when RBS implements the controversial UK bank segregation rules.
  • The wide-ranging management shake-up at Deutsche Bank is set to continue, after it picked Goldman Sachs partner Alasdair Warren to lead its new corporate and investment banking unit in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
  • The Canadian lender is using its balance sheet muscle and hiring to build a broad-based corporate finance offering in Europe, writes David Rothnie.
  • HSBC took a big step forward in furthering its China ambitions this week, entering into an onshore joint venture securities firm with Shenzhen Qianhai Financial Holdings. The first priority is to launch an onshore debt business but the bank has ambitions eventually to offer a full range of investment banking services. Rev Hui reports.
  • Japan's economy may not be the envy of the world, but its banking sector is on the up. While European banks are pulling in their horns, especially in Asia and the US, Japanese institutions are expanding. Nobuhide Hayashi, president and chief executive of Mizuho Bank, talked to GlobalCapital's Toby Fildes in Tokyo about the bank's determination to globalise its management style — and also about whether Abenomics can scrape Japanese growth off the floor, the worrying situation in China and the danger of procyclicality in regulation.
  • Investment banks all want the same things — more capital, smaller loan books, and more concentration on more profitable business. When banks announce a turnaround, they should be judged on specifics, not aspirations, and on this, Standard Chartered’s strategy update is pretty watery fare.