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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
The US bank has emerged from its restructuring to record impressive market share gains following a reboot of its financial sponsor and leveraged finance businesses
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Tom Montag, the new head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investment bank is expected to name his senior management team at the beginning of September. With the firm’s integration largely complete, and investment bankers already able to call on balance sheet firepower, insiders are excited about the prospects for a fresh start, writes David Rothnie.
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For all the talk of emerging markets and European potential, the US is still the market that matters most in investment banking, argues David Rothnie. That makes BarCap’s Lehman acquisition look smarter than ever.
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An aggressive lending strategy focused on a select group of clients that is designed to maximise capital markets and advisory revenues — it’s page one of the investment banking play-book, 2009 edition. But while many are still trying, BNP Paribas has the wallet-share growth to prove it works, writes David Rothnie.
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An aggressive lending strategy focused on a select group of clients that is designed to maximise capital markets and advisory revenues — it’s page one of the investment banking play-book, 2009 edition. But while many are still trying, BNP Paribas has the wallet-share growth to prove it works, writes David Rothnie. Read this week’s full Southpaw column online now.
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Despite Citi being the biggest victim of the financial crisis, its global and European investment banking business is holding up well, with debt capital markets starring particularly brightly. But as David Rothnie reports, many in the firm are getting fed up with the endless reshuffles and perpetual crisis in the executive suite on Wall Street.
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Deutsche Bank is alone among the elite band of winners from the crisis to have surrendered European fee income to its rivals. David Rothnie finds out how David Fass, head of global banking for Europe, plans to put the once all-powerful German bank back on top.