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BNP Paribas bankers in Spain leave for boutique firm
A group of BNP Paribas bankers in Spain have jumped ship to join boutique firm Beka Finance, according to market sources. One person familiar with the situation said that the French bank will refill these roles in due course.
08 Apr 2021 -
HSBC brings back Horsburgh for UK role
HSBC is relocating the regional head of its leveraged and acquisition finance (LAF) business from Hong Kong to London to help implement its UK strategy.
08 Apr 2021 -
ICBC’s financial institutions head moves on
Iqbal Nasim, head of financial institutions at ICBC (London), will leave the bank in the middle of April to set up a desk at a smaller Asian lender.
07 Apr 2021 -
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Trump exit unleashes Financial Stability Board to act on climate
The G20’s Financial Stability Board is cranking up its action on climate change again now that Donald Trump is no longer US president. This will feed the hopes of some sustainable finance supporters who want the FSB to drive progress on issues including environmental accounting.
07 Apr 2021 -
NatWest Markets promotes Plan in corporate debt
NatWest Markets has made another change to its debt financing management structure, with a new role for Roland Plan.
06 Apr 2021 -
Credit Suisse’s heads of IB and risk fall on swords after Archegos implosion
Credit Suisse has begun an overhaul of its leadership following the collapse of Archegos Capital, as well as losses from the bank’s ties to Greensill Capital. The Swiss lender has cut dividend payments by two thirds, and slashed bonuses for senior executives.
06 Apr 2021 -
VP heads back to KKR’s credit biz
Vaibhav Piplapure, widely known as VP, has signed on for a second stint in KKR’s credit business, returning to the firm as a London-based managing director sourcing asset-based finance and speciality lending opportunities.
31 Mar 2021 -
Mizuho hires Lepone to run loan trading
Mizuho has hired Robert Lepone as head of loan trading EMEA, a newly created job intended to expand the Japanese bank’s loan distribution capabilities.
30 Mar 2021 -
Credit Suisse bolsters Levfin team with Bank of America hire
Credit Suisse has hired the former head of Bank of America’s European leveraged finance capital markets, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital.
26 Mar 2021 -
Political deals tarnish Taxonomy’s claim to science-based objectivity
The polite world of sustainable finance has collided with the ugly reality of politics in the past week, as open strife has broken out over the European Union’s sustainable finance legislation, especially the Taxonomy. Conservative and progressive elements are battling over a host of issues, above all whether gas power should ever be classed as sustainable, and the validity and even legality of the Taxonomy is being called into question.
25 Mar 2021
