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I don’t need to work, but I’m tempted to go back
Corporate broking relationships endure for decades and build deep roots between both individuals and institutions, enabling banks to win outsized revenues from clients they serve. No wonder that a new crop of banks are expanding their ambitions
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The European Investment Bank will soon begin working on the first projects to be financed by the European Fund for Strategic Investments, the new EU initiative to unlock €315bn of investment over the next three years.
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The first full year results for the major US investment banks show that little changed in Q4 — litigation costs and poor trading revenues, particularly in fixed income, are still causing most of the pain.
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Société Générale has hired a new co-head of corporate finance and head of German mergers and acquisitions to replace Jan Caspar Hoffmann, who left last year for Moelis & Co. -
Citigroup disclosed on Thursday that it missed earnings expectations as trading revenues in its institutional clients group declined and repositioning charges along with another round of regulatory actions hit the global bank’s profits. Market share gains among institutional clients, along with low oil prices, could turn things around in 2015.
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The Swiss National Bank’s decision to abandon its euro peg on Thursday is likely to cripple earnings at Switzerland’s two international investment banks. But it could deliver an unexpected capital boost as well, changing the game as the two institutions race to meet onerous capital rules imposed in the “Swiss finish”.
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HSBC has picked Ehren Vokes as its new head of ECM southeast Asia following the departure of Matthew Song, according to sources.
