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‘New kid on the block’ disrupts established order with lead role on Schroders takeover
Investment bank, like the group, wants to diversify outside France, and will lead with its strongest suit, real assets
The Spanish bank is building out its industry and product teams after doubling down in North America
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It’s crunch time for Barclays in its battle to remain independent. A capital-raising sale of its iShares business could help it through and allow BarCap to complete ambitious expansion plans for its European investment banking operation, writes David Rothnie.
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As Oswald Grübel hammers out the finer details of his survival plan for UBS he must somehow maintain the loyalty that binds together the firm’s investment bankers. It is one of the mysteries of the financial crisis that UBS, vilified in its home market to an even greater degree than RBS is in the UK and AIG in the US, still has a franchise worth fighting for, and that more of its investment bankers haven’t already left the firm.
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The unrest at Bank of America Merrill Lynch has reached the heart of its best and most profitable business — its financial institutions group, part of which is being reshuffled as the merged entity shies away from potential conflicts of interest.
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Unlike its fellow survivors of the credit crisis, HSBC is resisting the temptation to grab new clients and instead is trying to grow its global banking and markets businesses by better serving its existing customers. It’s starting to deliver on its strategy of investment banking without the rainmakers, writes David Rothnie.
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A shift away from turbo-charged equity derivatives businesses and a renewed focus on clients was the message from both BNP Paribas and Société Générale last week, but how will the businesses fare as they move ever further away from their French roots?
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Others might be cutting back in their trading businesses but Deutsche Bank is using its bulk to support a drive in investment banking, both in the US and Europe. David Rothnie takes a look at the firm’s growing financial institutions group franchise.