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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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With Stuart Gulliver moving up to be HSBC’s chief executive, he leaves a hand-crafted global banking and markets division that has enjoyed considerable success during the credit crisis. But with rivals stepping up their efforts and an uplift in M&A and equities expected next year, has he left the right structure behind that can build on that success? David Rothnie reports.
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Anshu Jain seemed to have his succession to Deutsche Bank’s top job signed and sealed. But a new emphasis on retail banking has given Rainer Neske the chance to stake his claim, writes David Rothnie.
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A position as corporate broker to a UK company doesn’t guarantee advisory and ECM mandates but it sure does help. So with more than a dozen of the country’s leading bankers switching employers in the last few months, a shake-up of relationships is on the cards, writes David Rothnie.
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A lot can change in three years. Just ask Bob Diamond and Fred Goodwin, rival suitors in October 2007 for ABN Amro’s hand. While Diamond lost out on ABN, Goodwin lost his job within the year. RBS has floundered ever since while Barclays, and Diamond, have never looked back. But, as David Rothnie reports, there are signs that the ABN merger might finally be beginning to pay for itself.
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M&A is coming back. But not until 2011. That means banks have four months to get their houses in order and the best people on board — or indeed to stay — to cash in properly. By paying mid-year bonuses to its best bankers, Credit Suisse is one step ahead. David Rothnie reports.
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BHP Billiton is back in the takeover market. But only BNP Paribas remains from its advisers on its last big deal. David Rothnie examines the banking musical chairs being played out behind the biggest M&A deal since the financial crisis.