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Despite a tepid response in a 2024 consultation, there are signs EU authorities are laying the groundwork
European and high yield chiefs to take the reins
Kevin Duignan to retire after 33 years, mainly in structured finance
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More market participants are starting to question the European Central Bank’s ability to successfully revive the European asset-backed securities market after another Mario Draghi press conference went by without further detail on Thursday, except for the president saying a consultant would be hired to advise on its promised ABS purchase programme. -
First Gulf Bank has added two people to its structured finance team. Anand Bangur and Mehdi Raza have joined the group’s debt markets and syndications team under former Standard Chartered banker Steve Perry, who was hired by FGB in September 2013.
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Cantor Fitzgerald is looking to acquire residential mortgage origination firms as it moves to “aggressively” expand its capabilities in that market, its CEO, Shawn Matthews, told GlobalCapital. The firm is also looking to move into the CLO market.
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Implementation of the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) in Europe is set to be delayed by 10 months according to a leak last week of a draft European Commission document. The treatment of ABS in the LCR, seen by the industry as unfavourable compared to covered bonds, was not changed in the leaked draft, but the delay could provide time to hammer out the details of more equitable regulatory treatment, said bankers on Monday.
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Henderson Global Investors will lose its head of fixed income next week to London-based asset manager The Prytania Group, which is replacing retiring chief executive Joe Cook.
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Commercial real estate loan servicing firm Hatfield Philips has plundered two commercial real estate professionals from banks to head up its newly launched debt advisory team and its marketing team.
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A young North Carolina CLO manager is looking to expand its small team with three new hires in the next couple of months, according to a person at the firm.
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CIFC is forging ahead with its new middle-market CLO platform, despite losing a managing director to a specialist middle-market lender.
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Cantor Fitzgerald has hired two bankers from Royal Bank of Scotland’s US office in Stamford, Connecticut, as the UK-based lender implements deep cuts to its North American asset-backed securities business.
