Southpaw
by David Rothnie

• Perella Weinberg launches European offensive

  The boutique has turned to experienced hires as it looks to build a UK business in short order, ahead of a potential IPO, writes David Rothnie.

  • 26 Apr 2018

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The FIG Idea

• 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

• The FIG Idea: assume the recovery position

  When Banco Popular lost the market's confidence, it ran out of road. Realistic assumptions for recovery rates on bad assets plunged to super-conservative levels. Confidence is the greatest form of solvency, its withdrawal a precursor to insolvency.

  • 22 Jun 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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