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French banks and foreign rivals are slugging it out in France’s corporate finance boom, where proximity to the government is an advantage, writes David Rothnie.

The co-head of the EMEA debt capital markets centre at Bank of China in London has resigned.

BT has appointed Andrew Binnie, a former member of Vodafone’s treasury team, as its new group treasury director. BT's previous treasury manager left in September and faces a murder charge.

SMBC Nikko has hired another official from Commerzbank as it builds up its bond business in Europe.

Evidence suggests European lenders are a little too optimistic about the quality of their credit exposures after the pandemic.

International Finance Corp has bolstered its annual questionnaire to underwriters, which formally integrates environmental, social and governance considerations into the selection of its bookrunners.

The European Commission on Thursday fined Nomura, UBS and UniCredit for their traders' participation in a cartel in the primary and secondary European government bond markets during the financial crisis.

Credit Suisse equity capital markets veteran Stephane Gruffat is set to join Deutsche Bank, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital.

Christina Cho is set to leave her job as co-head of sustainable finance capital markets for the Americas at BNP Paribas to join CIBC, where she will lead the bank’s dollar coverage of sovereigns, supranationals and agencies in North America.

Citi has promoted Ignacio Gutiérrez-Orrantia to head of EMEA banking, capital markets and advisory, replacing Phil Drury, who is relocating to San Francisco to oversee technology and communications investment banking.

Bart Van Dooren, head of funding and investor relations at Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, will be retiring in January.

UniCredit’s new chief executive Andrea Orcel has slimmed down the bank’s executive committee while recognising “frustration” and “confusion” around past decision making at the firm.