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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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• Bhattal coup placates ex-Lehman bankers in Asia … • … but Sayeed loss threatens stable European team • Firm braced for departures after FSA bonus sign-off
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The unravelling of Merrill Lynch’s FIG group by Bank of America, even if unintended, was almost complete this week, after the departure of two of its most important bankers in London. The bank wants to strengthen its DCM business in the corporate and government bond sectors but its dominance in FIG now looks fragile, writes David Rothnie.
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Prudential’s audacious $35bn bid for AIA has shaken-up the once cozy world of FIG advisory. David Rothnie assesses the positions of those involved, from Credit Suisse’s elevation to UBS’s odd absence.
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Bharti Airtel’s $10.7bn all-cash bid for the African mobile-phone operations of Kuwait’s Zain, has investment bankers dreaming of the good old days — the promise of big fees on a trophy M&A deal and the opportunity to prove they are lending again in high-growth markets. David Rothnie reports.
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After a bruising bonus round, the industry must mobilise to shape its own destiny and fight regulatory intervention, writes David Rothnie
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When Jerry Del Missier started describing Barclays Capital as a "flow monster", it provoked amused irritation over at Deutsche Bank. After all, it was Anshu Jain, the bank’s imperious head of global markets, who coined the phrase. Now it appears BarCap’s plagiarism has extended to the far more serious area of market share. For the first time, Barclays provided a breakdown of its fixed income currencies and commodities division at its annual results presentation last week, and it makes uncomfortable reading for Deutsche. BarCap’s FICC division brought in £12.9bn (Eu15bn), compared with Eu9.7bn for Deutsche.