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Private credit lender hires to build impact, capital solutions and NAV strategies
Permanent successor not appointed yet
The hire aims to strengthen the bank's middle market direct lending platform
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Banks have been hiring staff to help financial sponsors hunt jumbo take-private deals as opportunities dry up elsewhere, writes David Rothnie.