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ABN Amro has appointed Stephen Taylor as head of equity syndicate following the departure of Jason Valmadre a fortnight ago.

Scotia Capital has taken the cleaver to its fixed income operations in London by making eight members of the team redundant and closing its emerging markets retail distribution business.

Sigma Finance Corp, the $37bn structured investment vehicle managed by Gordian Knot, faces a struggle to refinance $20bn of maturing debt before the end of September without triple-A ratings from any of the agencies.

AFTER a couple of weeks of giddy — perhaps unwarranted — optimism, apprehension and caution once again became the dominant sentiments in trading floors on Wall Street and in the City of London.

NORWAY’s Storebrand group is turning to covered bond issuance through Storebrand Kredittforetak.

THE AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) this week made a R2bn ($257m) domestic issue to finance infrastructure projects in South Africa as demand for rand bonds emerged in the euro market and in Japanese retail as well in the domestic market.

ABN Amro’s equity syndicate banker, Mark Coxon, has joined UniCredit as global head of equity syndicate.

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson this week flatly denied that the US government had embraced a greater role for the state in financial markets, despite the rescue of Bear Stearns and sweeping new proposals to overhaul the regulatory system.

Barney Frank, Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has said he strongly backs the changes to US financial regulation proposed by Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary — though he called for more clarity on the plan’s details.

CIF EUROMORTGAGE priced a Eu1bn two year obligations foncières issue at 4bp over mid-swaps yesterday (Thursday).

Leo-Hendrik Greve, managing director in the financial institutions debt capital markets (FIG DCM) group at Citigroup, is leaving the bank today, EuroWeek has found.