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Credit Suisse launched a three-tranche holdco senior deal worth $4.5bn on Wednesday, taking advantage of the US market's slimmer premiums and deeper liquidity.

JP Morgan may have beaten expectations with a 22% drop in profits at its investment bank, but the severity of the decrease augurs ill for other banks this earnings season.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association and other industry bodies have called on global regulators to drop dual-sided derivatives trade reporting and instead accept an entity-based approach.

Nomura’s restructuring of its overseas activities has led to several senior directors in leveraged finance in both the US and Europe leaving the bank this week.

Relentless focus on political risks in the UK and US has prompted some overwrought analysis of option volatility curves.

Yankee banks took full advantage of strong funding conditions and the undivided attention of investors to print a volley of senior paper this week, as Wall Street’s heavyweights skulked in earnings blackout.

German carmaker BMW drove primary market activity this week, making a stunning debut as corporate America entered an earnings blackout.

Four banks have teamed up with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Markit, and Axoni, a distributed ledger technology firm, to undertake the market’s first test of a blockchain solution for managing single name credit default swap post-trade events.

US cash machine maker Diebold, which is acquiring German peer Wincor Nixdorf, has increased the size of its euro and dollar loans and tightened their spreads, amid an improving investor mood in the leveraged loan market.

Eco World International has obtained approval from the Securities Commission Malaysia for its IPO, which is expected to raise $500m by the middle of this year.

Credit Suisse has named former Macquarie banker Cheun Hon Ho as its new southeast Asia ECM head.

Market participants and their lawyers were this week studying the US Department of Labor’s lengthy new fiduciary rules for retirement accounts, as the industry worries about a big shift in the way it can offer financial products to the country’s savers. One derivatives-related area on which officials appear to have taken advice is their previous plan to limit the ability of investors to hold listed options.