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Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
Bank M&A is back on the agenda, but talk of SMBC buying Jefferies is premature. The two firms are prioritising their multi-stranded alliance and a takeover now would jeopardise it
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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Barclays on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to its investment bank but announced that it was cutting businesses and refocusing on its core markets of the UK, the US and Africa.
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There have been two outstanding narratives in the news this week and neither of them pertained to stockbroking. Or did they? (At this point, I sense the regular EuroWeek reader wearily sighing and acknowledging that yes, it seems in this column that everything pertains to stockbroking.)
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The Swiss firm’s new client-focused investment bank may be shrinking, but the upbeat mood among senior staff suggests it still has ambitions to conquer the world in its core products, writes David Rothnie.
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After reading of Richard III’s disinterment from a car park in Leicester (well, the skeletal remains of Richard III, at least. It would have been surprising for him to have leapt up, whispering "Have Henry’s mob with the halberds buggered off yet?" or, "Where is that bloody horse I asked for five hundred years ago?" Then again, it would have been a nice touch to have brought along two horses for the pleasure of exclaiming to the former King, "you wait half a millennium for one horse and then two turn up at once."), I speculated how several centuries hence, an economic historian specialising in say, the structural decline of liberalised capital markets at the beginning of the third millennium, might feel about finding my corpse.
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HSBC has added another senior banker as it continues the expansion of its corporate broking effort.
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The former head of UK investment banking at Nomura is joining HSBC in a senior role.