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Ashley Wilkins, Société Générale's outgoing head of global finance for Asia Pacific, was in bullish mood this week as he prepared to head back to an as-yet undisclosed new role in the bank's UK operation. "We are firing on all six cylinders, not even just four," he said. -
Barclays is seeking a stronger footing in Asia Pacific ECM, with the creation of a new role of head of blocks origination. The bank has struggled to make headway in terms of market share in the region, but its strong Japanese franchise, accompanied by its new emphasis on the more profitable blocks business, shows the firm is moving in the right direction, reports Rashmi Kumar.
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ICAP believes that the fine imposed by the European Commission of €14.96m (£11.3m) on Wednesday for having breached EU antitrust rules by facilitating several cartels in the sector of yen interest rate derivatives is wrong both in fact and in law.
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The European Commission’s draft green paper on Capital Markets Union, is “remarkably realistic and unidealistic”, according to Clifford Chance’s Simon Gleeson, a partner in financial market and regulatory law. The paper, due to be released on February 18, proposes tackling prospectus rules, SME credit scoring, revamped securitization rules, private placements and long term investment funds in the first phase of the project.
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) plans to offer multilateral compression services for its clearing members in the first half of 2015 following a rise in popularity of market agreed coupon swaps and increased competition for compression services. Multilateral offerings will complement the services CME currently offers and will provide its members with more independence for maintaining their portfolios, said CME executives.
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Commerzbank is opening a representative office in Abidjan, the economic hub of Ivory Coast, and has appointed Konrad Engber as head of the five person team. He had previously been Commerzbank’s representative in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Tripoli, Libya.
