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  • Société Générale’s Newedge prime services business has added LCH.Clearnet’s ForexClear as a new central counterparty clearing houses to its client over-the-counter clearing offering, allowing it clients to clear non-deliverable forwards.
  • HSBC’s UK investment banking revolution will gain momentum in 2015, going beyond its previous narrow attempt to build a global M&A business, writes David Rothnie.
  • Andrea Orcel, head of UBS Investment Bank, will become chief executive of UBS Ltd and UBS London branch, while David Soanes, head of financial institutions will become UK Country Head.
  • Loan losses are a fact of life. How banks prepare for them is crucial to their well-being and that of their shareholders, but there are wild differences in provisioning across Asia. Daniel Tabbush, former head of Asian bank research at CLSA and now an independent analyst, thinks that the north is worse placed than the southeast — and with its exposure to Chinese loans, it cannot afford to be.
  • Over a period of two months, the GlobalCapital Asia team conducted pitch meetings with banks and interviews with other market participants to decide the most impressive capital markets transactions and advisers in Asia in 2014. A summary of the results appears below and the detailed write-ups of each award are in the following pages. Our thanks to all those teams that took the time to discuss their business with us.
  • In October this year, Singapore's DBS completed the acquisition of Société Générale's private banking business in Asia, in what was billed as a complementary deal that would see the DBS franchise strengthened in areas where it previously had little presence. Tan Su Shan, group head of consumer banking and wealth management at DBS, tells Asiamoney that the move fits well with the group's objectives.