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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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Lazard has appointed Jasjit ‘Jesse’ Bhattal, the former head of Nomura’s wholesale business, as a senior advisor, just the latest high-profile hire from a firm that has shown its willingness to pay up to bring in big names.
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Independent brokerage KNG Securities has hired two convertible bond traders, including a Citi managing director.
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Richard Snow has become the latest senior banker to leave Nomura following the bank’s restructuring of its European business. Snow, a managing director in the firm’s corporate broking division, is understood to have left the firm last week, according to two sources.
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Singapore’s state-owned investment fund has added investment bankers to its ranks as it looks to seize opportunities created by bank deleveraging, writes David Rothnie.
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So Mervyn King thinks it’s "depressing" for bankers to delay their bonuses until April and the new tax year to avoid the top rate of tax? I hadn’t thought of this ruse and so I shouted over to the MD of Inn Securities: "Hey! What was my fourth quarter bonus again?" "It was somewhere between a negative value and zero." "Ok, can you delay that payment until April 7th so I pay just 45% tax on it rather than 50%?" "Sure. Whatever you want."
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Ute Gerbaulet, head of equity capital markets at Commerzbank until September last year, has moved to Bankhaus Lampe, where she has responsibility for capital markets and advisory and is a member of the bank’s executive committee.