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If the true quality of leadership can be measured only in times of adversity then there has never been a better time for judging the performance of senior executives. While many will complain that little of what happened after the collapse of Lehman Brothers was in their power to alter, it is undoubtedly true that they did control their destinies leading up to that moment. David Rothnie picks the winners and losers of 2008.
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With 2009 set to be a year for corporate capital raising exercises, UK blue chip firms are understandably anxious to engage corporate brokers with strong balance sheets and stable personnel. The merry-go-round of pitches and beauty parades is accelerating to a dizzying pace, writes David Rothnie.
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Blackstone may have just suffered its first-ever quarterly loss, but its advisory business, run by John Studzinski, is thriving in direct proportion to the financial crisis, says David Rothnie.
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BNP Paribas has been a relative winner over the course of the financial crisis but despite a clever strategy that has helped the bank to win some high profile mandates outside of its domestic power base, it has still not greatly increased its market share in investment banking, writes David Rothnie.
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The drastic action announced this week by Citigroup to turn around its fortunes by cutting 52,000 jobs comes less than two months after its European investment banking division emerged with a new approach that it believes will see it through the downturn. Chief executive Vikram Pandit is taking the decisions that his predecessors ducked, says David Rothnie.
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Sovereign wealth funds may have provided crucial rescue financing to investment banks, but they are proving less attractive as a source of revenues. And with some reining in their firepower, banks may soon discover that they are not the saviours they were initially thought to be, says David Rothnie.