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    Metro Bank is looking to become a more profitable institution after launching a review of its strategy this week, but the lender still faces the challenge of having to raise a further £500m of debt to meet its capital needs.
  • The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) outlined plans to develop and impose "vulnerability assessments", or stress tests, to evaluate the resilience of Australian banks to the effects of climate change.
  • Twelve of the largest global investment banks reduced their headcounts in equities by 10% last year, leading to one of the “steepest declines in years” in the number of investment bank employees, according to analytics firm CRISIL Coalition.
  • Intesa Sanpaolo took the market by surprise when it launched a takeover bid for UBI Banca this week. A successful deal could set off a long overdue wave of mergers and acquisitions within the Italian banking sector, which ECM bankers are hoping will be financed through a slew of new rights issues. Tyler Davies and Sam Kerr report.
  • HSBC’s corporate finance staff have survived its restructuring largely unscathed, but the more ambitious among them will see the bank’s plans as a missed opportunity, writes David Rothnie. And with no answer yet on the identity of the next full-time CEO, the uncertainty is not over.
  • UBS has made several senior staff in Spain redundant, including Madrid-based DCM managing director Daniel Vazquez Villanueva, GlobalCapital understands. The cuts came as part of a general redundancy round last year, but revenues from the region have been hurt by a hard stop in business from Santander after it decided not to hire former UBS investment banking boss Andrea Orcel as chief executive.