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Lloyds Banking Group sold £170 million ($269.6 million) in new shares to raise money for interest payments to holders of hybrid bonds, the first such sale since the European Commission lifted its ban on Lloyds from paying dividends or making interest payments earlier this year.
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Goldman Sachs is said to have begun a new round of staff reductions in trading and investment banking as part of its annual review process.
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Goldman Sachs is considering a move into monoline insurance as a way of expanding its business in the wake of regulations that would ban it from proprietary trading.
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Invesco is said to be considering a sale of its portfolio of European collateralized loan obligations, as it shifts focus to its U.S-dollar denominated vehicles.
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Mark Hoban, the U.K.’s financial services minister, says the European Union needs to develop tools for macroprudential supervision similar to those being proposed later this week by the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee.
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Société Générale is in talks with the Blackstone Group to sell EUR100 million ($131.2 million) in commercial property loans on U.S. office and retail developments.
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Sants Resigns As FSA Chief Hector Sants has resigned as ceo of the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority and will leave the FSA at the end of June. Sants, who once before resigned in 2010 but was persuaded to stay, was tapped to become head of the new Prudential Regulatory Authority in a merger of the FSA and the Bank of England. Sources said Sants is leaving because of delays in that process. Click here to read the release from the FSA. Click here to read the story from The Financial Times.
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Germany’s FMS Wertmanagement, which was created to wind down some EUR176 billion ($232 billion) in Hypo Real Estate assets, says its participation in the recent Greek debt swap agreement will result in it booking EUR8.9 billion ($11.7 billion) of risk provisions on the securities.
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The European Data Warehouse, formed to hold loan-level data on securitization deals, is offering discounts for accessing information to prospective investors. Investors will receive a graduated discount based on the number of shares they buy.