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SocGen in exclusive talks to buy Commerzbank's EMC unit: Handelsblatt‍

The EMC unit includes Commerzbank’s exchange traded funds portfolio, equity derivatives and other market making businesses.

French bank Natixis buying into three M&A boutiques, bolsters China presence

Natixis plans to buy a 51 percent stake in Fenchurch, which is focused on corporate finance advisory to financial services companies in Britain.

Barclays pays top managers over £20m in shares

Awards mostly to compensate several senior executives for payouts forfeited on leaving JPMorgan Chase

Nomura said to appoint Brexit czar in Tokyo to handle move

This refers to a situation in which several countries borrow from just a few big international banks, raising the risk that losses in one country encourage the banks to withdraw from other borrower countries as well.

Deutsche float plan for fund management arm with chequered UK record

The German lender's chief executive has unveiled plans to sell off a chunk of the division, which has a colourful City record.

Funding Circle Picks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley for IPO

U.K. online lender’s share sale may spur IPOs from rivals

Atom Bank in £149m capital raising

Spanish lender BBVA lifts stake in UK challenger to almost 40%

Wall Street Banks Dominate Amid M&A Boom Gripping Nordic Region

Goldman ranks second when it comes to Nordic corporate deals

FirstRand to enter transactional banking in the UK

Freshly armed with a UK banking licence, FirstRand will launch transactional banking through Aldermore, chiefly to attract more deposits.

Goldman puts some London staff on notice for German move by June

It has informed members of its London-based derivatives and debt capital markets teams working on German accounts that their activities will be relocated to its base in Frankfurt and to make the necessary preparations to move to those offices by end-June,

UBS Named Europe’s Top Corporate Access Provider

The Swiss bank won top honors from money managers in Institutional Investor’s annual ranking of the sell-side firms connecting investors with European executives.

Investment banks face fury over gender pay gap

Under new legislation, organisations with more than 250 employees have to disclose the gap between the average earnings and bonuses of male and female staff before a deadline of April 4.

FM: Scottish National Investment Bank plans to ‘move at pace’

Mr Higgins, Tesco Bank’s chief executive, said: “There is an incontrovertible case for creating the Scottish National Investment Bank."

Build it and the private infrastructure funding will come

Historically, this development bank has been one of the largest investors in projects in the UK, providing billions in funding for large-scale transport, social housing, energy and health sector schemes.

Bank by bank, these are the new hiring priorities for 2018

In reality, it’s also likely to be broader than this: banks don’t always divulge their intentions – just look at UBS’s quiet recruitment for its fixed income sales business in 2017.

Goldman May Sell Its $1.4 Billion New European HQ in London

The exact value of the building will largely be determined by the rent Goldman agrees to pay, the people said.

Standard Chartered restarts dividends as profit returns

Bank shows improvement in bad loans but return on equity still low

Deutsche Bank targets €2bn in Frankfurt fund unit float

Deutsche said it would target fund growth of between 3-5% and a fee margin of 30 basis points.

Royal Bank of Scotland gets proactive on digital as reactive legacy issues are ticked off

There will, inevitably, be more focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as part of the wider digital thinking

Here’s how much you earn at HSBC’s investment bank vs. Goldman Sachs and others

HSBC had 677 material risk takers in its investment bank last year.

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