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Agora hires head of structured products and EMTNs
Agora, the end-to-end debt capital markets start-up, has appointed Filippo Mattia Ginanni as its head of structured products and EMTNs.
18 Jan 2021 -
Boath joins Agora as adviser
Richard Boath, a former Barclays chair of EMEA financial institutions investment banking, has joined Agora, the capital markets start-up founded by fellow Barclays alumnus Charlie Berman.
15 Jan 2021 -
Institutional investors look set to suffocate bitcoin’s radical past
The emergence of institutional money into bitcoin is the death knell for its revolutionary dreams of a decentralised economic system.
12 Jan 2021 -
‘We’re on a very different path to others’, says Agora’s Berman
Charlie Berman, the bond market veteran, believes the platform he is developing, Agora, will not face competition from other fintech applications in the debt capital markets, due to its unique selling point of covering the entire lifecycle of a bond and the use of distributed ledger technology.
18 Dec 2020 -
Kimpel's rocket lands at Citi
Citi has hired Peter Kimpel as head of banking, capital markets and advisory (BCMA) for Germany and Austria. He joins from Barclays and was also previously chief financial officer at Rocket Internet.
16 Dec 2020 -
End of universal bank could be nigh, says Arthur D Little
The coronavirus crisis, new challengers, technology and capital requirements threaten to shake up the banking sector — and banks are likely to shift business models substantially, according to management consultancy firm Arthur D Little.
09 Dec 2020 -
MUFG hires Algomi co-founder for trading role
Stuart Taylor, who helped set up bond market data business Algomi, has joined MUFG's global markets business as head of electronic trading.
24 Nov 2020 -
Bots prepares 2021 launch for DCM platform
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a new tech company that aims to automate pricing indications in the primary debt capital markets, has completed an initial fundraising round and formed an advisory board ahead of a launch next year. GlobalCapital spoke to the founders to find out more about the product.
24 Nov 2020 -
DirectBooks launches communications platform for corporate bonds
DirectBooks, led by nine global investment banks, has announced the launch of its core service to streamline communications in the primary issuance process for corporate bond deals.
20 Nov 2020 -
Citi sets up unit to advise governments on digitalisation
Naveed Sultan will develop and lead a new digital policy, strategy and advisory practice for governments, corporates and financial institutions at Citi, and has been appointed chairman in the bank's institutional clients group (ICG).
30 Oct 2020
