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Barclays DCM director resigns


Bank wants to grow risk management offering in north America
GlobalCapital asked heads of debt capital markets businesses across the Street about their expectations for 2025 and their experiences of 2024. Most predict rising issuance volumes as Ralph Sinclair discovers whether they see AI, blockchains, or the rather more human rise of private credit as the most disruptive threat to the industry
The capital markets are finding growing uses for artificial intelligence as language models go from being large and broad, to small and tightly focused. AI has already been deployed to increase administrative efficiency. Automation in trading and execution is next, writes Gaia Freydefont
The Australia-specific approach has no immediate impact on other major markets
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    Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
  • The Single Resolution Board said this week that it could only get behind a "hybrid model" for the European deposit guarantee scheme (EDIS) if it forms part of a temporary solution on the way to establishing a fuller framework.
  • ESG exposures are no longer just 'nice to have', according to alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital, which is doubling down on its sustainable investments in the Covid-19 recovery period.
  • Piraeus Financial Holdings, the Greek holding company which owns Piraeus Bank, has launched a capital raise to give it the firepower needed to offload non-performing loans and has already secured enough demand on one morning of book-building to cover the deal.
  • SRI
    The detailed rules for the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities look set to come into force, as the European Commission published them on Wednesday, after weeks of intense lobbying and negotiation that had raised the prospect of them being delayed again. Gas will not enter the Taxonomy for now and will be dealt with in separate legislation, but nuclear power could enter the Taxonomy later this year, alarming greens.
  • CaixaBank has named the former head of long term funding at Bankia as its head of debt capital markets.