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Europe’s self-proclaimed investment banking champions are playing to their strengths, but remain far behind US peers
After quitting M&A and equity capital markets in Europe and the US last year, HSBC is striving to maintain global relevance — and London and New York still have a role to play
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M&A activity in Vietnam is set to get a big surge from July, as laws governing foreign investment into domestic companies will be relaxed by the government in a bid to attract more overseas investors. The prospects of more debt and capital raisings to follow are high, but while international businesses are keen to expand their footprints in the southeast Asian country, finding the right targets will pose the biggest challenge.
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No sooner has the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect got up and running than attention is already turning to the Next Big Thing — the expansion of the scheme into new markets and new asset classes. The fervour is understandable, but premature. Market participants should get to grips with what they have first before lobbying for shiny new toys. -
Scope Ratings has taken a big bet on the success of Europe’s bank resolution scheme with its covered bond rating method, published for comment on Thursday. Compared to the main rating agencies, Scope drastically downgrades the importance of covered bond collateral.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is proposing a Standard Initial Margin Model process for multi-asset swap transactions to reduce initial margin and to promote transparency via risk-based modelling for market participants.
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UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo reported skinny profits, but knocked it out of the park compared to last year, when both banks took multi billion euro writedowns to prepare their balance sheets for forensic examinations during the European Central Bank’s Asset Quality Review.
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UBS has won a High Court fight with the hedge fund which formerly backed its structured products business, with the judge agreeing that deep cuts in UBS’s fixed income division did not breach the terms of the agreement.
