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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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The next mergers and acquisitions boom is beginning. And for the first time, it is being played out in the emerging markets, as western companies seek to consolidate their positions in fast-growing economies and strong companies in those markets seek to become a global force. David Rothnie looks at the skills banks need to win business.
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Brady Dougan wants Credit Suisse to be the world’s most admired bank and it won praise last week for its landmark Coco deal as it continued to bolster its reserves. But he knows that, without the balance sheet of firms like JP Morgan or Bank of America Merrill Lynch, it won’t become a premier investment bank by aiming to be the biggest. Its challenge, writes David Rothnie, is to keep up the momentum that it established in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Anshu Jain’s strategy of greater integration of Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment banking businesses will be crucial to the bank’s aim of hitting its group pre-tax profit target of Eu10bn for 2011. David Rothnie reports.
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Barclays Capital’s ambitious plans in ECM and UK investment banking are bearing fruit. Given the new brokerships the bank has won in the past week and its advisory role on the LSE/TMX merger, further shake-ups among UK brokers look set to be on the way. David Rothnie reports.
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Big investment banks enjoy dismissing the threat posed to their M&A businesses by the raft of advisory boutiques that has sprung up since the global financial crisis. But one that was established during the height of the last takeover boom is taking them on at their own game. David Rothnie reports.
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It will do nothing to appease the banker bashers, but financial institutions are changing their bonus systems. David Rothnie finds out if the changes are making any difference.