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Faisal Ashraf has rejoined Credit Suisse’s New York-based commercial mortgage-backed securities desk, heading the firm’s large-loan structuring, pricing and execution strategy, according to a spokesman.
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New reforms threaten to shrink the number of banks in Europe willing to provide swaps in securitization trades, according to market professionals.
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Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, says regulators should increase the list of banks determined to be systemically important in the U.K. to more than 80 beyond the current 20 to 30.
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UBI Banca, the Italian lender, says it is planning a rights issue to raise €1 billion ($1.4 billion) in fresh capital to meet an 8% Tier 1 core capital ratio required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
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Nordea Eiendomskreditt, a unit of Norway’s Nordea Bank, has sold $2 billion of Norwegian legislative covered bonds through a private Rule 144a placement.
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Barclays is said to be in advanced stages of investigating a possible move of its headquarters from the U.K. to the U.S.
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BNP Paribas is said to have set its sights on acquiring IKB Deutsche Industriebank from Lone Star Funds, the U.S. private equity fund.
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The American Securitization Forum expanded its advocacy ranks this week, hiring Jim Johnson as managing director of public policy in its newly minted Washington office.
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A federal judge in New York has dismissed lawsuits brought by investors against Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch unit to force the bank to bring charges against officers and directors for their role in risky investments in collateralized debt obligations.