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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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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.
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The appointment this week of an outsider, Naguib Kheraj, to run JP Morgan Cazenove shows how far the former stockbroker to the Queen has moved from its traditional roots to the investment banking mainstream. Kheraj, though, has a lot of work to do if he is to take the firm even further as the 2010 date when JP Morgan can exercise its option to take full control of the business looms.