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Ten months after its unusual regional retreat in equity capital markets and M&A, HSBC has had a good year in debt capital markets, suggesting its new strategy can work
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NatWest Markets has created a new climate and environmental, social and governance (ESG) capital markets team, which will be led by Caroline Haas. -
Eight years after publishing its first consultation paper the Spanish Treasury has set out its hotly anticipated draft covered bond law which market participants greeted enthusiastically, largely because it comprehensively addresses all the main features of the EU’s Covered Bond Directive. However, it contained a number of surprising and potentially contentious proposals.
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The blockchain firsts in capital markets are coming quickly. DZ Bank is marketing a corporate Schuldschein that will run back office functions on a blockchain for the entire duration of the trade — the first time this has been done — while Société Générale’s subsidiary Forge is working on various permutations of trades to be issued using this form of distributed ledger technology. While blockchain tech is still in its infancy, it is set to disrupt capital markets, creating winners and losers.
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James Marriott is joining Wells Fargo in a senior debt capital markets role this autumn after he resigned from NatWest Markets, where he was head of DCM and advisory for financial institutions and sovereigns, supranationals and agencies.
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Agence France Trésor (AFT), the French sovereign debt office, has hired Antoine Mannevy as a debt market operations dealer.
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Sebastiano Laviola, director of strategy and policy coordination at the Single Resolution Board, said there is still plenty of work to do to refine bank failure rules in Europe but praised lenders for getting on well with issuing for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) during the pandemic.
