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  • UBS reported this week that its DCM revenues for the second quarter were up 50.8% on the year — an incredible performance relative to its peer group and to the broader market. It credits US leveraged finance for much of the increase, but in Europe, bank capital raising was the sector which stood out.
  • Two years on from the acquisition of Collins Stewart Hawkpoint, Canaccord Genuity is making headway with its integrated mid-market model, writes David Rothnie.
  • The German lender has gone further than its rivals with a new series of measures integrating its corporate and investment bank in EMEA, writes David Rothnie.
  • The European repo market is battling to improve discipline and reduce the level of trade fails, which, driven by negative rates, restrictive capital rules and illiquidity in the bond markets, could shrink liquidity even further. But harsh punishments for trade fails contained in the European Central Securities Depositories Regulation could be counterproductive, and the industry, backed by the ECB, is trying to have them changed.
  • Long-dated vanilla options structures on the euro against the dollar that play a bullish $ view, are expected to gain traction as front-end yield differentials have moved in the $’s favour, with strategists expecting such a trend to widen further over the next 18 months.
  • A law allowing foreign banks to fully own Philippines lenders was signed into law by president Benigno Aquino III this week. The move could lead to bank consolidation. Matt Thomas reports.