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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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When ABN Amro’s shareholders voted in favour of the RBS consortium’s takeover bid last October, one adviser to the Dutch bank dubbed it the "AOL Time Warner" of the financial services sector, in reference to the ill-timed $164bn media merger struck at the height of the dotcom boom in 2000.
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The last weeks’ negotiations between the UK banks and their government have thrown up a tangle of conflicts of firms and personnel, allowing the banks involved plenty of opportunity to gripe and grumble that others have had fairer treatment, says David Rothnie.
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When Barclays Capital snatched Lehman Brothers’ US operations it looked favourite to pick up the pieces of the bankrupt businesses in Europe and Asia, too, before being trumped by Nomura. Lehman insiders say that BarCap never considered that Nomura would call their bluff and show the winning hand, writes David Rothnie.
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Only the bond market can prevent a mergers and acquisitions meltdown, writes David Rothnie. But for even that to work, European corporate treasurers need to wake up and adjust to new realities.
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Goldman Sachs this week became the fourth largest bank holding company in the world. What does it mean for the firm’s investment bankers and traders? asks David Rothnie
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Perhaps the only surprise amid the unprecedented upheaval in investment banking this week is that Goldman Sachs has yet to play a starring role as a buyer, or as some analysts drunk on panic are suggesting, a takeover target.