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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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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.
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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.