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New equity capital markets talent and Bernstein joint venture have helped Société Générale win eye-catching mandates. Next, it will expand sector teams
Italian investment bank has retained its focus since its takeover by Banca Monte dei Paschi. Now with two suitors for MPS, it is set for more upheaval
Years of underperformance are behind it and the bank has launched a new growth plan
The Italian bank’s head of advisory and financial solutions wants AI to support a new operating model based on being able to work faster than any of its rivals
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BNP Paribas is a clear winner from the crisis and has a credible strategy in investment banking, but it faces a struggle to attract the best talent from rival firms, writes David Rothnie.
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Another year, another reshuffle. The retirement of a UBS veteran has prompted the bank to have another stab at putting in place a new management team for its investment banking division. As David Rothnie writes, the aim is restore the bank’s former glory in what is a crucial business for the firm.
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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.