Santander flags CLO activity with co-placement agent role on CSAM deal
Credit Suisse Asset Management last week priced its second new US deal of the year with BNP Paribas as the lead arranger and Santander as co-placement agent

Santander taps Credit Suisse dealmaker

Santander Corporate and Investment Banking hires new managing director from Credit Suisse

Banks soak up selling pressure ahead of key ECB meeting
Banks - and particularly those in Italy and Spain - are among the main underperformers in credit as the market cautiously awaits messaging from this week's meeting of the European Central Bank

Santander to acquire Amherst Pierpont for $600 million
Banco Santander says it has struck an agreement to acquire fixed income broker dealer Amherst Pierpont Securities

Kartesia hires former Santander official to lead UK senior debt origination
Kartesia has appointed former a Santander official to lead UK senior debt investments 

Points up front: Cap wearer plays trump card in support of SRT
Such has been the success of Donald Trump’s “make America great again” caps that structured credit folks have started sporting their own versions. Santander’s Jeremy Hermant has been seen in the streets of London proudly wearing a cap with the motto “make SRT great again”. Hermant works in the significant risk transfer team and tells Creditflux that he has been campaigning for SRTs for the past few years.

Santander issues SRT referencing Spanish SME loans
Banco Santander has issued a significant risk transfer referencing a €3 billion portfolio of loans

CVC adds senior Santander official to its European direct lending team
The former head of structured finance and origination at Santander has joined CVC Credit Partners as a managing director

European sub-financials shake-off Santander AT1 shock, outperforming senior fins and corps
Santander’s decision yesterday not to call a €1.5 billion additional tier one (AT1) bond shocked investors in the asset class. But while this may have been expected to bring a wider reverberation of pain, investors and strategists have noted a firming up of the European financial bond sector today