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Selling BGI removes restrictions on Barclays Capital; The firm can now deal with US mutual and pension funds

Aedy begins to build team; Restructuring opportunities top of agenda

The CDS market is hoping that the move to central clearing will silence its critics. It could be disappointed.

Financial troubles are plaguing some of the Gulf’s most prominent families.

RBS has promoted Mark Barnes to the new role of global head of FX in its banking and markets division. Barnes first joined the old NatWest in October 1994, although he briefly worked elsewhere at the turn of this decade.

Hires key bankers from Merrill Lynch; Big task to stop league tables slide

Setubal wants to buy outside Brazil; Barbosa confident that Santander Real merger will be complete within a year

Goldman Sachs has always set itself apart. And that goes for its people as well as its business. Somehow Goldman bankers just look different and sound different to those at other shops and are clearly worth protecting.

Citi and Tata’s deal irks regulator; Further bank-backed bonds banned

If you’re thinking recovery and green shoots, think again. Robert Gover, an economist-cum-astrologist, says the planetary alignments portend a decline in the US markets beginning in August, accelerating into a crash by October. A Grand Cross, whereby four planets form oppositions to each other in outer space that resemble a cross on a celestial chart is what is coming up, says Gover. Grand Crosses were present in all of the US’s severe depressions. It’s going to be lumpy for the stock markets from then until 2012, when it will get worse until 2015. So much for green shoots.

Bankers confident after record Visanet deal; Market volatility, though, means issuance will be selective

At the annual Euromoney Borrowers and Investors Forum last month, the great and the good of the sovereign, supranational and agency issuer community gathered in London to meet market participants.