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ING is planning to bring on a director of leveraged capital markets from Société Générale early next year.

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On Thursday, Northumbrian Water brought the first sterling corporate bond of the week when it announced a £300m 10 year deal. It is almost a year to the day that it priced an identical deal.

Henrik Ljungstrom has left his role on ING's loan syndicate and sales team after almost three years.

Citi has been fined $550,000 for data reporting violations on its internal swap contracts.

Peter Ellemann has left his position as head of European loan syndications at ANZ Bank around a month ago, according to sources in the market.

On Monday night, Cinven, the private equity group, sold a 10% stake in Just Group, the UK financial services company, through an accelerated bookbuild led by Barclays and Numis.

Mathias Noack, co-head of debt capital markets for EMEA at MUFG, has been appointed as Loan Market Association chairman by the board.

Tradeweb, the electronic marketplace provider, announced on Monday that it had completed the first cleared inflation swap using an electronic request-for-quote (RFQ) system.

Citi is moving an experienced banker from London to take up one of its most senior capital markets positions in Asia Pacific.

BNP Paribas is extending its delta one execution and financing offering, and has hired a senior salesman from Citi to help run the initiative.

Central Asia Metals, the Aim-listed owner of a copper mine in Kazakhstan, priced a £137.4m ($153.5m) capital increase and secondary share sale on Friday, to partly finance its acquisition of Lynx Resources for $402.5m.