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  • Crédit Agricole benefitted from brisk capital markets activity in the third quarter, its results on Tuesday showed, while it has also set up a private investment banking division for wealthy individuals and families.
  • Société Générale said on Monday that planned "adjustments and optimisations" should lead to a net reduction of around 640 posts in France, as it changes its structured products business and mulls altering securities services too.
  • Alantra, the boutique investment bank in Spain, wants to expand its securitization franchise beyond its existing strengths in NPL deals, boosting its position as an advisor for specialist lenders in performing credit and structurer of risk transfer deals for Europe’s smaller banks. Francesco Dissera, who started at the firm in mid-October, will lead the team’s growth efforts.
  • Naveed Sultan will develop and lead a new digital policy, strategy and advisory practice for governments, corporates and financial institutions at Citi, and has been appointed chairman in the bank's institutional clients group (ICG).
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    Outrage at the destruction of the Amazon rainforest — which often involves dispossessing indigenous people — is common among capital markets executives. But few realise that their own firms are financing it.
  • BNP Paribas has shaken up its advisory business to address underperformance in its home market, but this must be more than a quick fix to restore national pride, writes David Rothnie.