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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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  • This week, the Futures Industry Association held its 40th Annual Boca conference in Boca Raton, Florida where senior buysiders, sellsiders, exchanges, clearing houses, lawyers and other market officials met to dicuss the trading and regulatory landscape in the derivatives markets. The GlobalCapital team reported from the event, covering all the hot topics such as regional fragmentation, central counterparty equivalence, cross-border regulation, trading and execution requirements, and more.
  • Tidjane Thiam should resist the temptation to trash Credit Suisse’s investment bank and focus on the bigger job of improving the private bank, says David Rothnie.
  • If more banks are forced out of the clearing business as a result of the stringent leverage ratio rules under Basel III, then the remaining futures commissions merchants will not have the capacity to take on their clients, according to speakers at the 40th Annual Futures Industry Association Boca Conference in Boca on Tuesday.
  • Overall interest rate derivatives trading that was reported to swap data repositories last week increased by 14% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
  • One investor was seen picking up a sizeable straddle on the euro against the dollar on Thursday following a slide in the pair which resulted in the breaching of the 1.10 psychological level.
  • The way to manage bond trading today is to manage the flow of information and make sure you only connect people who really want to trade, just like internet dating, participants at Afme’s European Market Liquidity Conference were told.