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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
The US bank has emerged from its restructuring to record impressive market share gains following a reboot of its financial sponsor and leveraged finance businesses
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The firm may have failed but there is no shortage of suitors for Lehman Brothers’ investment banking business in Europe and Asia as rivals pick over the carcass.
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A year of horror for the owners of investment bank stock is drawing to a close. But for bankers it means that the bonus season is just beginning — and current low valuations could make this year’s vintage far juicier than initial appearances suggest. David Rothnie takes a look at what some investment banks are doing to change pay and bonus schemes.
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The Gulf region is not providing the fees gold rush that investment banks have promised to shareholders and analysts. Instead, the deployment of top Western executives to the region is often little more than window dressing and the banks involved risk losing focus on what remain their primary revenue-generating businesses in the US and Europe, writes David Rothnie.
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After unveiling what appeared to be a niche strategy in emerging markets M&A, Barclays Capital is actually building a global business one cautious step at a time.
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Marcel Rohner’s new strategy for UBS leaves it torn between separation and togetherness, and lays down the law to his investment bankers that they have to produce for the wider group. It’s not going to be easy, says David Rothnie.
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If anyone had suggested 18 months ago that HSBC’s investment banking business would be turning a healthy profit in 2008 while luminaries such as Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, UBS and Merrill Lynch would be racking up losses, they would have been pointed in the direction of a good psychiatrist. David Rothnie finds that a novel strategy is paying dividends.