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Moment of truth
Standard Chartered’s ambitions to grab a share of Asia Pacific’s equity-linked business suffered a blow last week with the departure of several senior bankers to Morgan Stanley, which is finally getting its act together in the region. Shankar Ramakrishnan and Owen Wild report.
Nomura claws Bhattal back to address staff overhang
No one likes an overhang on their stock. But for the last two years, Nomura has had an overhang on a large chunk of the investment banking workforce that it took on in Europe and Asia from Lehman Brothers back in 2008. Keen to avoid defections at the time, the Japanese bank guaranteed bonus payments for two years, an agreement that expires with the bonus round currently under way.
Derivatives
BNP Paribas brings first Rmb lending rate IRS
BNP Paribas, on December 10, struck the first-ever renminbi interest rate swap (IRS) referenced to the one-year lending-rate of the People Bank of China (PBoC) in the interbank market in China. The new product puts a powerful instrument in the hedging toolkit for corporate borrowers in mainland China. The new IRS product can help corporates to better manage their interest rate risks in a volatile interest rate environment, especially given the expectations of rising interest rates in the next fe
Chindia on the move
Emerging economies in Asia are aggressively developing their derivatives markets, with the two Asian giants – China and India – having recently announced steps to put in place infrastructure for derivatives growth, renewing plans that were stymied by the global financial crisis. Wendy Mock reports.
People Moves
Moment of truth
Standard Chartered’s ambitions to grab a share of Asia Pacific’s equity-linked business suffered a blow last week with the departure of several senior bankers to Morgan Stanley, which is finally getting its act together in the region. Shankar Ramakrishnan and Owen Wild report.