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‘New kid on the block’ disrupts established order with lead role on Schroders takeover
Investment bank, like the group, wants to diversify outside France, and will lead with its strongest suit, real assets
The Spanish bank is building out its industry and product teams after doubling down in North America
UK house has boosted returns at its investment bank and is bullish on ECM and M&A despite falling below expectations
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Goldman Sachs has been quietly investing in its M&A business during one of the more vulnerable periods in its history. The idea is to bring through the firm’s next generation of dealmakers, writes David Rothnie.
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The departure of the top two bankers in Nomura’s wholesale bank effectively ends the Japanese firm’s global bulge bracket aspirations. It also shows that Nomura has abandoned its previous position of seeking to retain the former rump of the Lehman business at all costs. David Rothnie reports.
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As RBS takes the knife to its global banking and markets division, buying the equities platform would be an ideal way for one of the emerging forces in global investment banking to enter this business, writes David Rothnie. The problem is there are few candidates willing or able to take it on.
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Despite investment banks cutting staff after a miserable year and little promise of much in the way of excitement for the industry in 2012, Jefferies has bucked the trend by continuing to expand its international business. David Rothnie writes.
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An infrastructure deal boom is on its way, but this time banks are playing it safer than before, David Rothnie writes.
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The retirement of an industry legend has put the industry on red alert at the prospect of mandate wins, writes David Rothnie.