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• HSBC hires loans banker Yap

  

  HSBC has hired Seok Kheng Yap, a former loans banker at Scotiabank, as an associate director in the loan syndications team.

  • 04:30 AM

• ICBC International appoints syndications head

  

  David Zhu, a former loan syndications banker at Deutsche Bank, has joined ICBC International, GlobalCapital Asia understands.

  • 17 Jul 2018

• Citi promotes Saha to head of loan sales for ASEAN, India

  

  Citi has named Prosenjit Saha as head of loan sales for ASEAN and India, a newly created position to boost the bank’s loan business in the regions.

  • 17 Jul 2018

• Codes of conduct: breathing life into dead words

  

  Are professional codes of conduct shining lodestars for how to behave in financial markets — or dusty screeds of boilerplate that no one can remember? That is what a group of enthusiasts are trying to discover, in the hope that such codes, if used in the best way, could genuinely improve behaviour.

  • 15 Jul 2018

• RBC takes HSBC's Tufts for sponsors push

  

  Graham Tufts has left his position as vice chairman of leveraged and acquisition finance at HSBC and is understood to be joining Royal Bank of Canada in a senior role.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• HSBC hires for sponsors and leveraged finance

  

  HSBC has hired two bankers, one from Credit Suisse and one from UBS, to strengthen its business with private equity firms and in offering leveraged financing.

  • 11 Jul 2018

• Head to Head with Standard Bank CIB boss Kenny Fihla: betting big on Africa

  Africa has been having a rough ride in the capital markets in 2018 — credit spreads are up and local currencies have taken a beating. But Kenny Fihla, chief executive of Standard Bank CIB, says opportunities abound for banks, risks can be mitigated and the continent is only getting more attractive for Asian investors. He spoke to GlobalCapital’s emerging markets editor Francesca Young and people and markets reporter Nell Mackenzie.

  • 11 Jul 2018

• Dysfunction paralyses Green Climate Fund

  

  The governance problems at the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund hit a new low this week when a four day board meeting was almost entirely taken up with procedural wrangling and failed to reach agreement on most of the agenda.

  • 05 Jul 2018

• Goldman loses Novo Banco court claim

  On Wednesday the UK’s final court of appeal rejected Goldman Sachs’s attempt to recover money lost on a loan to Banco Espírito Santo through the British courts. The judge said the EU’s framework for dealing with failing banks might be undermined if the actions of resolution authorities could be challenged outside of their home country.

  • 05 Jul 2018

• Investment banks beef up for take-private bonanza

  

  Banks have been hiring staff to help financial sponsors hunt jumbo take-private deals as opportunities dry up elsewhere, writes David Rothnie.

  • 05 Jul 2018

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