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New global structure is reinvigorating push towards top league
Universal bank in EMEA is still a work in progress, but Mizuho has chosen now to hire an M&A banker from BNP Paribas to lead the next stage of growth
Innovation has generated 500 deals without requiring extra bankers
HSBC’s investment bank could have a new strategy this month after negotiating a stay of execution from the CEO for parts of M&A and ECM. But the truncated bank will have a harder time convincing clients
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  • Matteo Ferrario is joining MUFG from Barclays, where he led the asset finance origination unit. He will be reunited with John Winter, who joined the Japanese bank earlier this year and will be his boss.
  • HSBC has picked Georges Elhedery and Greg Guyett as co-heads of its global banking and markets (GBM) division, replacing Samir Assaf, who has been handed a new role as chair of corporate and institutional banking.
  • Houlihan Lokey’s European corporate finance land grab has made its fifth acquisition since 2014, writes David Rothnie, at a time when the fluctuations of the credit cycle may be about to lead to more restructurings.
  • European banks are waiting for relief from central bankers, politicians and regulators. But UniCredit is positioning itself to offset several of the biggest problems facing the sector, giving it greater room to forge its own destiny.
  • UniCredit’s plan until 2023, revealed in London on Tuesday, involves rewarding shareholders with larger distributions on the back of a growth in revenue. The payment of these distributions will be given greater protection, thanks to the creation of a new intermediate holding company to lessen the bank’s regulatory capital burden. Meanwhile, chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier was clear that large M&A does not form part of the bank’s plans.
  • European finance ministers are not keen on setting up a new development bank from scratch. They will instead start technical work on how to better streamline the operations outside the EU of the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.