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HSBC has named a senior Wells Fargo banker as its new head of global banking for Europe, replacing the departing Philippe Henry.

The global head of bond syndicate at Standard Chartered has been placed at risk of redundancy. The bank will divide his responsibilities between two other positions, one of which was vacated just last week.

RBC Capital Markets has created a new leadership position at the top of its global public sector markets business, promoting a senior banker in Toronto to fill the role.

Citi's head of EMEA banking, capital markets and advisory, Phil Drury, is relocating to San Francisco to take charge of a new franchise covering technology and communications.

DirectBooks, a platform for primary bond issuance initiated by a group of banks, has added the ability to handle euro and sterling deal announcements as well as a new senior member of staff to run its European business.

Scotiabank has hired a new head of syndication in New York, GlobalCapital understands.

Abraham Douek has left Citi after 11 years spent working on the bank's FIG debt capital markets desk.

A group of BNP Paribas bankers in Spain have jumped ship to join boutique firm Beka Finance, according to market sources. One person familiar with the situation said that the French bank will refill these roles in due course.

Credit Suisse has begun an overhaul of its leadership following the collapse of Archegos Capital, as well as losses from the bank’s ties to Greensill Capital. The Swiss lender has cut dividend payments by two thirds, and slashed bonuses for senior executives.

An environmental activist institute has argued that the bookrunners of a Korea National Oil Corp $700m bond priced on Tuesday are being inconsistent with their own climate policies, and might even be taking legal risks, because of the issuer's exposure to tar sands oil production in Canada.

JP Morgan has appointed two new co-heads of EMEA equity syndicate to replace Lorenzo Soler, who moved back to the US to run the bank’s Americas syndicate desk. One is an internal hire and the other joins from Deutsche Bank.

The financial markets’ stance on climate change has taken a stride forward as 43 asset managers with $23tr of assets including some of the biggest such as BlackRock and Vanguard have joined the Net Zero Asset Managers’ Initiative. A critical mass of investors is now committed to reducing carbon emissions in their portfolios to zero, meaning that companies can be in no doubt which way they have to go if they want to maximise their potential investor base.