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Barclays is preparing to let go of investment banking staff in Asia as the UK lender continues to wind down its presence in non-core markets. -
The Chinese circuit breaker mechanism shut down stock trading for the second time in just four days on January 7. Despite the 12% drop in the Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP) since end of 2015, Macquarie expects MSCI to finally green light A-shares inclusion for its popular global stock indices in June.
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Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.
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Enormous effort has gone into improving banks’ public images with sustainability drives, charity giving and community involvement. Much of this is sincere, but the true tests come in banks’ real financing business — can they put ethics before profit? John M Anderson reports.
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It’s been a tough eight years for banks — and for bankers — and the perception of finance as a career has changed in the public mind. But banks aren’t losing out in the race to hire young bright graduates, as much as the career expectations of those graduates are changing. Banks need to keep up with the times if they want to compete, writes Graham Bippart.
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CommonBond has kicked off 2016 with the hire of Beth Starr as vice president and head of capital markets. Meanwhile, CEO David Klein tells GlobalCapital that the online lender is planning to ramp up its ABS activity in the coming year.
