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Ian Fitzgerald, one of the European loan market’s best known faces, has been asked to take charge of Lloyds TSB’s new capital markets division following his bank’s merger with HBOS.
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M&A dealmakers in Europe are staring at empty pipelines, bereft of the balance sheet firepower needed to finance acquisitions. Gun-shy companies are anyway in no mood to resume big-ticket dealmaking. The combination means an impasse for new deals, writes David Rothnie, and while the bond markets are helping out, they are no substitute for the traditional model of banks providing syndicated loans to clients to finance acquisitions.
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Jefferies, the investment bank, has continued its hiring spree, adding nine salespeople, one trader and seven research analysts to its high yield, leveraged loans, distressed and special situations businesses.
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Standard Chartered announced another senior hire to its expanding capital markets business this week as it revealed a veteran high yield banker as global head of its credit trading business.
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Barclays Capital’s head of sponsor coverage for Asia Pacific left the bank on Wednesday in the latest senior departure from Asia’s battered leveraged finance market.
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Jefferies has hired Frank Sekula, BarCap's former head of high yield, as head of recapitalisation and restructuring for its European investment banking arm.