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Corporate broking relationships endure for decades and build deep roots between both individuals and institutions, enabling banks to win outsized revenues from clients they serve. No wonder that a new crop of banks are expanding their ambitions
Five months in, Alessandro Melzi is getting started on the plan, but his boss is about to change
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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  • Agency trading is an important tool for avoiding basis risk in package trades, especially for the more complex structures that are yet to be made available to trade on swap execution facilities (SEFs), according to speakers at the Sefcon V conference in New York.
  • Market participants at the International Capital Markets Association’s primary markets forum on Wednesday questioned the value of technological developments in the syndication process that could remove human contact from the process. But regulatory and cost pressures will make technology all the more important, and arguably the last decade of bond market growth could not have happened with using technology to accelerate the new issue process.
  • The Financial Stability Board has published its hotly anticipated paper on the final round of new bank capital requirements — Total Loss Absorbing Capacity, or TLAC. But the consultation paper, rushed out ahead of the G20 meetings in Brisbane this weekend, leaves the most important questions unanswered.
  • UniCredit has hired Maximilian Biagosch, former head of finance at Permira, as its new head of high yield syndicate.
  • UniCredit’s outgoing CIB chief has delivered a more profitable, stable division for his successor. But it’s a low key handover, writes David Rothnie.
  • Some derivatives market participants are weary of using credit hubs as they act as one single point of failure if a transaction were to fail because many parties are involved, according to panellists at the SEFCON V conference in New York on Wednesday. Parties at risk include swap execution facilities, clearing houses, futures commission merchants as well as their clients, the conference heard.