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Japanese bank poaches Barclays structured credit sales director
'The lessons of the financial crisis should not be forgotten,' spokesperson warns
The point of 'Simple, Transparent and Standardised' is that these deals are safe
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Timothy Geithner as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York urged the Bank of England in 2008 to make changes in the way the London Interbank Offered Rate is set, with six recommendations, including “procedures designed to prevent accidental or deliberate misreporting," according to documents obtained by Reuters.
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Lloyds Banking Group may close on a deal to sell 630 of its branches to the Co-operative Group at a steep discount as early as next week.
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Perry Sayles has moved to McDermott Will & Emery, where he began July 5 as a partner in the firm’s financial institutions advisory practice group and reports to group head David Taub.
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Wells Fargo has announced that it will discontinue funding mortgages that are originated, priced and sold by independent mortgage brokers through its mortgage wholesale channel.
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Pimco is said to have hired Michael Cudzil as a portfolio manager in the firm’s mortgage group. Cudzil has been head of pass-through mortgage-securities trading at Nomura Securities International.
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The growing percentage of bad loans to 12% is putting more pressure on Slovenia’s banking sector, according to the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, though Finance Minister Janez Susteric says it is “not considering any aid.”
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Germany’s NordLB sold EUR500 million ($614.25 million) of the country’s first covered bond backed aircraft loans.
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Lloyds Banking Group could face a penalty of up to £1.5 billion ($2.32 billion) if it is found guilty of manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, according to Liberum Capital analysts.
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California-based property investor Kennedy Wilson has partnered with an unnamed global financial institution to acquire EUR2 billion ($2.46 billion) of performing, sub-performing and non-performing loans secured by commercial and residential real estate in Europe, with a focus on the U.K. and Ireland.