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HSBC's Asia ambitions remain after Enns leaves
HSBC’s aims to boost market share in investment banking and rebalance towards Asia remain intact despite the resignation of one of its most senior lieutenants. But 2021 must be about execution, writes David Rothnie.
07 Jan 2021 -
MUFG seeks model change in quest for growth
MUFG is overhauling personnel and its business model to try to escape a cycle of low returns, writes David Rothnie.
26 Nov 2020 -
HSBC wants to take mid-market push beyond UK
HSBC might be in the middle of a big restructuring, but that isn’t stopping plans to develop mid-market M&A efforts in France, Germany and Asia as well as the UK, writes David Rothnie. The bank has also bolstered its teams covering specific sectors.
03 Sep 2020 -
Okuda starts efficiency drive at Nomura
Nomura has cut jobs in its investment banking business in Europe over the summer, following losses in leveraged finance, as its new chief executive eyes up other regions for growth, writes David Rothnie.
27 Aug 2020 -
UBS hits stride after rocky road to collaboration
UBS reckons it has a hit upon a ‘unique formula’ for growth as it expands its investment banking offering to its high net worth clients, writes David Rothnie.
20 Aug 2020 -
Cost cuts central to Gottstein's Credit Suisse shake-up
Credit Suisse chief executive Thomas Gottstein has brought its investment bank back together but threatens to leave it with a diminished corporate finance business, David Rothnie reports.
06 Aug 2020 -
Nomura looks to sustainable investment banking future
Nomura is eyeing acquisitions and a change in chief executive promises a reboot of its investment banking ambitions, writes David Rothnie.
28 May 2020 -
Pandemic threatens M&A pipeline
The coronavirus will depress mergers and acquisitions activity, hurt advisory revenues and change the emphasis of deal-making in 2020, writes David Rothnie.
12 Mar 2020 -
HSBC’s restructuring: is it enough though?
HSBC’s corporate finance staff have survived its restructuring largely unscathed, but the more ambitious among them will see the bank’s plans as a missed opportunity, writes David Rothnie. And with no answer yet on the identity of the next full-time CEO, the uncertainty is not over.
20 Feb 2020 -
Assaf retirement rings GBM restructuring bell
The retirement of Samir Assaf, HSBC’s long-serving head of global banking and markets (GBM), paves the way for a long overdue restructuring of that division. This will test the bank’s new-look management team.
21 Nov 2019
