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Ashley Wilkins, Société Générale's outgoing head of global finance for Asia Pacific, is in bullish mood as he prepares to head back to an as-yet undisclosed new role in the bank's UK operation. "We are firing on all six cylinders, not even just four," he says. The bank has spent the last few years repairing and rebuilding in the region, and while a falling oil price brings difficulties for that process, current eurozone conditions offer new opportunities. -
The UK Structured Products Association has introduced a new set of risk ratings to enable financial advisers to compare different structured products more easily and help select products that match their clients’ risk profiles more closely. Up until now, there has been no numeric risk value assigned to structured products.
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Barclays is making a big push into the blocks business in Asia Pacific as it looks to capitalise on the revenue-generating opportunities available in that side of the ECM market. To that extent, the bank has appointed Jack Yee as its new head of blocks origination for the region, while bumping up Daniel Wosner to the position of head of equity syndicate.
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Standard Chartered prides itself on being an emerging markets bank, but with London being the base for its senior management, headquarters and its main board listing, there is a mismatch between the bank’s leadership and the markets in which it operates. With all the signs pointing to the exit this year of long-serving CEO Peter Sands, it’s time for the bank to end the disconnect between its head and its heart.
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Standard Bank has closed a sale of 60% of its markets business to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a deal which the bank will use to further “the group’s growth strategy in South Africa, and across the African continent.”
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Volumes in market adjusted coupon swap trading are increasing due to margin efficiencies, increased liquidity and the ease of trading, according to speakers at the TABB Forum Fixed Income 2015 conference in New York on Thursday.
