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The board of Spain’s La Caixa bank is set to meet to vote on whether to proceed with a takeover of Banca Civica to form the nation’s largest domestic bank by assets.
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Deutsche Bank is changing the legal status of Taurus, its main U.S. unit, to circumvent higher capital requirements under the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act by giving up the subsidiary’s bank-holding status and assigning it to its Deutsche Bank Trust unit, effective Feb. 1.
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Commerzbank and the European Commission are said to be near to striking a deal on a restructuring of the German bank’s mortgage unit, Eurohypo.
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Lloyds Banking Group is selling a £500 million ($790.6 million) portfolio of mainly U.K. leveraged loans earmarked for private equity buyouts to Sankaty Advisors, Bain Capital’s credit affiliate.
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The collateralized loan obligation market faces an “existential threat” in the Volcker rule, says the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, an industry group.
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Lan Pham, the former economist who claims she was fired from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office in 2010 because of her analysis of the role of securitization in banking and foreclosure fraud, says the agency appears to “deny or diminish” that mortgage securitization is a problem.
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Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are said to be shrinking their mortgage-trading staffs amid a decline in the market for securitized products.
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Kelly Maier, a v.p. in high yield credit trading at Goldman Sachs in London, and Philip Ha, a New York-based secondary collateralized loan obligation and collateralized debt obligation trader, have both left the firm.
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BNP Paribas is exploring securitizing trade-finance loans to help deal with rising commodity prices, according to Jacques-Olivier Thomann, the bank’s head of structured finance.