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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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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.
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M&A dealmakers in Europe are staring at empty pipelines, bereft of the balance sheet firepower needed to finance acquisitions. Gun-shy companies are anyway in no mood to resume big-ticket dealmaking. The combination means an impasse for new deals, writes David Rothnie, and while the bond markets are helping out, they are no substitute for the traditional model of banks providing syndicated loans to clients to finance acquisitions.
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As France’s biggest banks look to beef up their overseas businesses they must not take their eye off the ball in their home market, where foreign banks are aggressively recruiting senior bankers, writes David Rothnie.