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  • ANZ has hired Richard Dawson as the new head of loans and specialised finance, international, according to a Tuesday announcement.
  • SRI
    The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, announced on March 8, involves no less than 10 different workstreams, covering a wide range of the ideas put forward by the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, which held a one year inquiry for the European Commission during 2017.
  • The EU’s lenient treatment of the IFRS 9 accounting rules has opened a loophole for Italian banks — allowing them to push through punishing provisions on their NPL portfolios, but wish away the impact on their regulatory capital — which could save the weakest banks from turning to shareholders for more cash, and speed up portfolio sales.
  • Piraeus Bank's Project Amoeba is one of the first secured Greek NPL portfolios to hit the market, and will serve as a crucial benchmark for pricing on the remaining €100bn of NPLs to come. Meanwhile, the other major banks are selling unsecured books.
  • HSBC has wooed Mark Ma back to its leveraged and acquisition finance team in Asia, poaching him from Platinum Equity, a firm that specialises in mergers and acquisitions.
  • Société Générale has announced new heads of coverage for public sector entities and financial sponsors.