The banking hires came thick and fast this week alongside earnings reports.

Barclays’ head of equity capital markets for Europe left the bank and is set to join UBS. Manuel Esteve, who joined Barclays from JPMorgan in August 2020 as part of an expansion of its ECM business, left for the Swiss bank where he will head up equity capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to people with knowledge of the move, and a memo seen by Financial News.