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Shunning complexity in the face of onerous regulation, reducing risks that are increasingly hard to quantify, sticking to what is relevant to clients, and proving it is possible to reimagine what a banking business can look like: these were the simple messages struggling to be heard above the din that greeted UBS’s decision this week to cut a swathe through its fixed income franchise.
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In the damp and windblown aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, most City institutions are examining their Disaster Recovery contingencies and considering whether they are adequate to cope with a natural catastrophe of similar dimensions over here.
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Rich Ricci, chief executive of corporate and investment banking at Barclays, this week dismissed any concerns of fall-out from the decision by UBS to pull out of SSA DCM, saying that his firm was in a strong position to weather the extra burdens placed on that business by increased regulatory charges, writes Mark Baker.
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Société Générale announced plans to improve its small and mid-cap equity capital markets offer, bringing together its mid-cap investment banking business and Gilbert Dupont, its small-cap brokerage and corporate finance specialist.
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Rosneft’s $55bn two-step acquisition of TNK-BP is a shot in the arm for Europe’s investment bankers — in particular, those at BofA Merrill and Citi, writes David Rothnie.