Southpaw
by David Rothnie

• RBC raises corporate finance ambitions after Melrose victory

  RBC Capital Markets is rightly proud of a transformative mandate on Melrose's GKN acquisition, but its ambition shows no sign of waning as it shrugs off senior departures, writes David Rothnie.

  • 12 Jul 2018
  

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The FIG Idea

• The FIG Idea: the wizardry of banking

  Do we marvel enough at the philosophical and metaphysical nature of the banking industry?

  • 17 May 2018

• The FIG Idea: The urge to merge

  Why bank consolidation isn't the slam-dunk it seems to be.

  • 01 Mar 2018

• The FIG Idea: capital punishment?

  We need to talk about capital. But language makes it difficult.

  • 14 Dec 2017

• The FIG Idea: Runners and Riders for the Basel Race

  The FIG Idea studies the form for bank capital's most important competition of the year — set to run this October (or perhaps not).

  • 25 Sep 2017

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MTN Leak Table

• MTN Leak: Disaster recovery practice

  One of the MTN market's best-known faces appears to have been practising for the looming nuclear apocalypse.

  • 10 Aug 2017

• MTN Leak: The summer paradox

  Leak is facing the summer paradox. The otherwise hardworking MTN bankers of London have more free time to come and hobnob with Leak but instead choose to go on holiday.

  • 03 Aug 2017

• MTN Leak: Summer days are here at last

  The summer holidays have arrived and jubilation abounds among school children. For the parents in the MTN market, there is perhaps a little trepidation mixed with the glee.

  • 20 Jul 2017

• MTN Leak: wish you were here

  Société Générale invited the great and the good of London’s financial press to a viewing of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new Pink Floyd exhibition this week. But for the hapless Leak team, it was The Doors that were of interest.

  • 13 Jul 2017

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