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  • The Financial Conduct Authority has written to UK banks warning them against pressuring clients for mandates on Covid-19 equity capital raises using their lending relationship as justification.
  • The coronavirus pandemic is shaking up the competitive landscape in capital markets, as some firms find it harder to commit to deals — but there are winners, too, and one of the most notable cases is BNP Paribas’s presence in the syndicated loan market.
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    SEB is creating a new sustainable finance unit to broaden its offering across the whole bank, and is building a team including country heads — the first of which is Lars Eibeholm, who will join the bank from the Nordic Investment Bank in the summer.
  • The coronavirus pandemic has made for a tumultuous time in corporate finance. Banks’ relationships with long-standing clients have come under strain, with lending conditions tightening just as some companies need a sudden injection of cash like never before. Bank of America’s dealings with FTSE 100 publishing and events company, Informa, provide one example of the difficult decisions facing lenders.
  • After years of not only falling loan volumes but being trounced in their own back yard, Europe's banks finally seem to have an edge against their US counterparts. With loan pricing gapping out in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but companies desperate for cash, the continent's lenders are proving first port of call for local borrowers, leaving US and Asian banks less active. Silas Brown, Mariam Meskin and Mike Turner report.
  • Europe’s banks sniff opportunities amid the crisis as they look to build out their corporate broking businesses, but they will face fights to remove incumbents, writes David Rothnie.