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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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Call me a miserable bugger — and a lot of people do — but not everyone is enamoured with the sudden onset of spring. I have a confession to make: the rising of the mercury creates many problems, not the least of which is the regular rising of my pulse rate.
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QInvest, the Qatari investment bank, is aiming to become the government’s go-to adviser even as western firms look to grab the next big opportunity in the Middle East, writes David Rothnie.
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My former sidekick, a bloke with whom I worked on-and-off — but he was mostly off — for the best part of a decade, called me on Monday morning. He enquired as to how and what I was doing. I replied that I was still spiralling helplessly around my own private vortex of despair and my days were still stuffed with turd-polishing, sexual reverie and sub-tabular self-interference.
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Cambridge man William Vereker and Franco-Italian Andrea Orcel may be cut from different cloth but they see eye to eye on investment banking strategy. That will serve UBS well as it continues its rehabilitation, writes David Rothnie.
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All that glitters is not gold and if you’ve been invested in the barbarous relic this year you would perhaps be thinking a lot of what glitters is crap because the damned thing is down by a quarter year-to-date and a third since its autumnal peaks of 2012. What’s even worse for the holder of this alternative investment is that no one, not even the "experts" who recommended it in the first place, can explain the precipitous decline.
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Tom King and Eric Bommensath have reached the summit of Barclays’ corporate and investment bank, succeeding the retiring Rich Ricci — whose departure appears intended to signal a clean break with the Bob Diamond era.