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  • Société Générale and Natixis have purged their senior ranks following second-quarter losses and to prepare for strategic revamps, but David Rothnie thinks the future will remain challenging for both.
  • Credit Suisse chief executive Thomas Gottstein has brought its investment bank back together but threatens to leave it with a diminished corporate finance business, David Rothnie reports.
  • Independent firms were the big winners of the 2008 financial meltdown. But they will find the Covid-19 crisis tougher to navigate, as they grapple with a unique set of challenges, writes David Rothnie.
  • The double whammy of coronavirus and a crisis at the top of the bank makes the most testing of times for the new head of Commerzbank’s corporate clients division to make his mark. But Roland Boekhout has a broad vision for the firm’s corporate and investment bank and ideas for how to implement it, writes David Rothnie.
  • HSBC’s global head of ECM is under no illusions about the challenges the bank faces but says HSBC’s restructuring is not one of them. David Rothnie reports.
  • JP Morgan has extended its lead in European investment banking, scotching accusations of a retreat and dashing hopes of a change in the status quo, writes David Rothnie.