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Charlie Jacobs, senior partner and chairman at law firm Linklaters, is set to become co-head of UK investment banking at JP Morgan.

HSBC has appointed a group chief sustainability officer, Celine Herweijer, to lead its effort to fulfil its commitment to being a net zero carbon emissions bank by 2050.

JP Morgan has appointed a new team of senior investment bankers focused on special purpose acquisition companies in Europe, after over $100bn was raised over the past year by cash shells, mostly in the US.

Robert Karofsky will be the sole president of UBS's investment bank once his colleague Piero Novelli leaves the firm at the end of next month.

The Spac craze that has swept US stock markets has spread to Europe with a new vehicle called Pegasus set to be listed in Amsterdam. The Spac is led by former UniCredit CEO Jean-Pierre Mustier, LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and Tikehau Capital and is expected to prompt a wave of new issuance, according to sources speaking to GlobalCapital.

HSBC’s CEO Noel Quinn is expected to announce a new leader for its sustainability agenda soon, as Daniel Klier is leaving to join Arabesque, an asset manager and technology company.

Kirshlen Moodley, formerly a member of JP Morgan's UK M&A team, has joined BNP Paribas.

BPCE is drawing Natixis closer at a pivotal time for the investment bank and European banking consolidation, writes David Rothnie.

Société Générale and Natixis both endured a difficult 2020 in their markets business, but in the fourth quarter their equities divisions managed to pull off a brighter performance.

BPCE is planning to buy the stake in Natixis it does not already own, and is also examining splitting it up, placing its corporate and investment banking activities and asset and wealth management branch into a new structure.

Axa Investment Managers' Yo Takatsuki has joined JP Morgan Asset Management as head of investment stewardship for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Thai Beverage is preparing to spin off and list its brewery business, BeerCo, on the Singapore Exchange in a deal expected to raise as much as $2bn.