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  • HSBC has become the latest bank to create a dedicated team for sustainable finance amid the coronavirus crisis. This is part of a new strategic solutions group, which will also house two other solutions units: one for corporate finance, and one for financial institutions and capital.
  • The double whammy of coronavirus and a crisis at the top of the bank makes the most testing of times for the new head of Commerzbank’s corporate clients division to make his mark. But Roland Boekhout has a broad vision for the firm’s corporate and investment bank and ideas for how to implement it, writes David Rothnie.
  • Franck Lacour is taking over HSBC’s equities business, with Hossein Zaimi leaving the bank. In Hong Kong, Selene Chong will take on new responsibilities in the equities business.
  • HSBC’s global head of ECM is under no illusions about the challenges the bank faces but says HSBC’s restructuring is not one of them. David Rothnie reports.
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    Bertrand de Mazières is one of the best known and most respected figures in European debt capital markets. As director general of finance at the European Investment Bank (EIB), he oversees one of Europe’s most important bond issuers, a status not only due to the amount it issues each year, but also its role as a setter of standards and benchmarks for rest of the market — in good times and bad.
  • JP Morgan has extended its lead in European investment banking, scotching accusations of a retreat and dashing hopes of a change in the status quo, writes David Rothnie.