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  • Time was when a Thanksgiving lunch in the City was a landmark in the social calendar of the crapulous broker, a springboard into the Christmas party season and a great excuse for a no-return bender of George Best dimensions.
  • Leucadia’s acquisition of Jefferies, announced this week, puts the US investment bank on a firmer footing. But questions remain over strategy, writes David Rothnie.
  • David Douglas, Standard Chartered’s head of equity capital markets for Asia, plans to leave the bank early next year to pursue a career outside equity capital markets. He has agreed to stay on until the end of March to help find a replacement.
  • Russia’s second biggest bank is intent on exploiting the weakness of western rivals, writes David Rothnie.
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    HSBC’s investment banking aspirations are growing while the competition retrenches, writes David Rothnie.
  • 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.