© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

Synd Loans People and Markets

Top Section/Ad

Top Section/Ad

Most recent


Five months in, Alessandro Melzi is getting started on the plan, but his boss is about to change
Paul Gibbs among those departing the firm after long service
Head of capital markets and advisory leaves
More articles/Ad

More articles/Ad

More articles

  • Banks should stop issuing loans and bonds linked to Libor by October, according to the Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates. But the scale of the challenge facing firms, particularly in the loan market, is causing concern.
  • Société Générale has redoubled its commitment to equity capital markets under a new structure designed to ensure it remains a force in investment banking when consolidation comes, writes David Rothnie.
  • The loan market’s trade bodies are preparing to give new guidance about how to ensure sustainability-linked loans — in which borrowers can get a margin reduction if they hit sustainability targets — are genuinely “ambitious”. Bankers want to protect the market from rising concerns that some deals’ terms are too easy on the borrowers.
  • RBC Capital Markets is beefing up financial sponsors, aiming to boost its European business during 2020, writes David Rothnie.
  • Xavier Clement has joined Barclays’ European credit trading business, working under another former Bank of America Merrill Lynch banker.
  • RBC Capital Markets has continued the development of its leveraged finance business by hiring Craig Campbell from HSBC.