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Jones Day Adds Banking Partner Duo in Australia

Jones Day Adds Banking Partner Duo in Australia

Another day in London today seeing some of our key lenders including a lovely lunch and catch-up at Coutts with John Bridger & Joanne Kinsey from NatWest, plus more interviews as we continue our scale-up of the Banking & Finance Team (MHA) 🙌🏼 2024 is going to be a very exciting year for us I think…😀 #businessfunding #businessfinance #businessadvisory #partnership

Banking M&A faces hurdles due to regulatory complexities, slowing down transformative deals. Societe Generale's joint venture with Bernstein Research Services, announced in 2022 and completed recently, exemplifies this challenge. GlobalCapital's corporates, markets and sustainability editor, Jon Hay, believes that despite the straightforward nature of the deal, legal and regulatory intricacies prolonged its completion. The overgrowth of compliance procedures is evident across the industry, hindering swift execution. As mergers become more daunting, stakeholders call for regulatory reform to facilitate smoother transactions and revive market dynamism. Read the rest of Jon's opinion in our free-to-read weekly GC View: https://lnkd.in/eSSQJGy8 #capitalmarkets #financialinstitutions #corporatebonds #equities #syndicatedloans

There are few business events as challenging as a corporate transaction. But whether it’s an acquisition or a divestiture, handled the right way, it can deliver significant business benefits to stakeholders. Some treasurers may only experience a corporate transaction a few times in their careers. Others may work within a highly acquisitive business. But in all cases, treasurers need to ensure they have an input into the deal from the earliest stage to ensure treasury benefits are identified and maximised alongside their assessment of broader business benefits. In our latest article, we look at five ways that treasurers can add value to corporate transactions. https://okt.to/L9pRoH The Cash Management Hub is produced by the ACT Policy & Technical team and created with Barclays Corporate Banking. We are working together to provide treasurers with useful insight and resources on a range of cash management topics.

My article on 'The Bank of England and the "prehistory" of corporate governance' has just been published in Business History. It traces most of the contents of the 1992 Cadbury Report to discussions inside the Bank of England in the early 1970s. It explores how and why the Bank worked to promote adoption of non-executive directors and institutional investor engagement, and highlights how corporate governance around the world today could have been very different without the Bank's efforts. It is available open access at https://lnkd.in/e6fTifF4

Join us for our upcoming webcast in partnership with Starling Insights on 7th February, ‘How are standard setting bodies changing banking for good? – The view from standard setting bodies'.  In July 2023, The Chartered Banker Institute and Starling Insights released a white paper on a decade of culture and conduct reform. This webcast is the second in a joint series which will bring together policymakers, regulators, standard-setting bodies, senior banking professionals, renowned academics, and other leaders to discuss how conduct and culture risks are managed and supervised across different jurisdictions of the banking sector. Hosted by Joanne Murphy, MBA, MCBI, COO of The Chartered Banker Institute, featuring Myles McGuinness, CEO of Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB), Stephen J. Scott, Founder & CEO of Starling Trust Sciences, Simon Thompson, CEO of The Chartered Banker Institute, and Martin Moloney, Secretary General of International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Register here: https://bit.ly/3NV1KJw    #regulators #policymakers 

Hogan Lovells has acted for JP Morgan Securities, BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch International, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Mizuho International and Westpac Banking Corporation on the issuance of EUR500 million guaranteed subordinated hybrid notes by Australian company APA Infrastructure. Andy Ferris and Leon Yap led the Hogan Lovells team, with support from Felicia Chen and Audrey Koh, to facilitate this substantial offshore bond issuance. Read more about the legal market on Law.asia (Vantage Asia Publishing Limited). 📢 Join our membership: https://lnkd.in/gAkbdbsN #ablj #asia #australia #offshore #bankingandfinance #finance #investment #capitalmarkets #legalnews #inhousecounsel #business #legalprofession #lawfirms #lawyers #legal #law #lawdotasia

The most aggressive competition in #banking at the moment is coming from Macquarie Group and according to CFO Alex Harvey it's not easing up. What does that mean for margins and share prices? + in today's Capital Gains from Capital Brief shareholder briefings now bigger than AGMs as a forum Melanie Kirk Ian Matheson; x-border real time transactions grow ANZ; American Express fined by ASIC; niche fintech Bridgit raises new funds; and why is #financialservices less enthusiastic about #AI? Capgemini https://lnkd.in/g96WGMWu

Repost from STANLEY’S MUSINGS - Identifying Key Warning Signs: Operational Due Diligence in Investment Banking - Unveiling Potential Risks: A brief exploration of operational due diligence Red Flags in the Investment Banking Sector https://lnkd.in/dKaNUFkZ