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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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Global bond new issue markets have had their slowest start to the year this decade, as anxiety about quantitative easing, interest rate movements and political events like the Greek election have kept issuers out of the market.
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The US’s Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Housing Administration are locked in yet another round of fisticuffs, with market share as the prize. If the private label RMBS market is to return, the government needs to stop hitting itself.
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Tools that enable firms to reduce the number of line items in a portfolio, while keeping the same risk profile, are changing the way market participants trade derivatives. These tools are becoming the new market norm as users look to optimise their balance sheets as increased regulation envelops the derivatives market. Gabriel Suprise was granted an exclusive interview with Lucio Biase, CEO, and Hilary Park, chief strategy officer at LMRKTS, a new firm that offers a novel type of tool in order to minimise counterparty risk. Topics of discussion included what LMRKTS is, how it works and why it is different from other compression offerings in the derivatives marketplace.
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After a brutal year in 2014, in which several senior staff were cut or left the bank, UBS’s European levfin business has a fixer in the shape of Jim Boland. -
The regulatory tide has turned, and banks are no longer trusted to assess their own capital needs. The Basel Committee’s latest proposals on bank disclosure, published on Wednesday, would add detailed information on internal modelling to existing bank reporting.
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UBS this week trumpeted the recent launch of an exchange traded note that provides investors with hedged exposure to the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index (VIX).
