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Originator hired to go after bank bond issues in euros and dollars
With Sergio Ermotti set to step down as group CEO, chairman Colm Kelleher favours an orderly, internal succession. But in a critical year for the bank, there could be turbulence ahead
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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. -
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.
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As buyside firms transact in ever larger volumes, asset managers need to reduce the delta risk, known as DV01, the change in the value of their trades caused by a basis point change in rates. However, this is very difficult as capital requirements for investment banks mean that a dealer’s ability to warehouse risk for its buyside clients is diminished.
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After a brutal year in 2014, in which several senior staff were cut or left the bank, UBS’s European levfin business has a fixer in the shape of Jim Boland.
