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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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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.
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When Oswald Gruebel appointed joint chief executives to run UBS investment bank at the end of April, the joke was that he did so because turning around the troubled division was more than a one-man job. David Rothnie looks at how the two co-heads are working together and what impressions they have made both inside and outside the Swiss bank.
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After a period of consolidation, HSBC’s banking and markets division is in expansion mode again, writes David Rothnie.
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A lucrative industry-wide fight among mining firms has investment bankers salivating. They are hoping for a shake-up of advisory mandates but Mike Davis and Cynthia Caroll (pictured), the bosses of the putative merger between Xstrata and Anglo American have so far given key positions to existing advisers.
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Banks have started hiring again — leaving their truce over pay and bonuses in tatters. Firms are accusing each other of irresponsibility at odds with the need for them to work together on the pressing issue of reform, writes David Rothnie.
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Business is good, says Morgan Stanley. After a week in which the firm repaid its Tarp money and topped the M&A league tables in Europe, it is now out to win even more mandates, writes David Rothnie.