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This year’s expected surge in IPOs and M&A deals should drive a proliferation of strategic equity derivative transactions, with $2bn of fees up for grabs
Bankers predict megadeals, plentiful debt and IPOs. The dealmaking resurgence even has a political slogan: European unity
France’s investment banking market recovered strongly in 2025 but that doesn’t mean domestic banks are happy. The market is super-competitive and US firms are winning many of the best mandates
The US bank has won more market share in European IB than its rivals after overhauling its leadership and doubling down in the region’s biggest markets
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M&A fees and volumes may be at their lowest levels since before the crisis, but it would be a brave firm that decides to cut and run, writes David Rothnie
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Anshu Jain, Deutsche’s new co-CEO, has a chance to be bold when he faces investors next week, writes David Rothnie. Cost savings and job cuts are likely to be top of his agenda.
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Crédit Agricole has finally been facing up to reality and reining in its ambitions. But as David Rothnie writes, the strategy means that the firm’s investment banking division is now a shadow of its former self.
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Sovereign wealth funds, once banks’ best clients, are hiring their own talent to do deals as the Middle East’s investment banking landscape takes on a more local flavour, writes David Rothnie.
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Natixis has not shied away from tough decisions in revamping its wholesale bank as it strives to put its recent troubles behind it, writes David Rothnie.
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Rivals face a challenge in catching JP Morgan as it unveils its new investment banking model, writes David Rothnie.