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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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Ed Cook, head of EMEA equity syndicate at UBS in London, has resigned from the bank to join BlackRock as the fund manager puts in place a new team to focus on equity and other capital markets transactions in Europe.
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The end of the first quarter is only just hoving into view and already the heat is on. It’s on The Street. A friend of mine who works as the head of sales for an equity product at a big bulge bracket outfit — a proper shop you know, with every department trailing clouds of overheads and trying to ditch them on someone else — was hauled over the coals this morning.
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UniCredit is growing in Paris with the hire of BBVA’s Vincent Guardiola as senior banker covering French companies.
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HSBC is overhauling its investment banking operations and demanding more from its bankers, writes David Rothnie. The bank has been here before, of course, but this time it is taking a different approach to its more traditional rivals — and it seems to be paying off.
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The gulf between UK and Dutch government strategies for their nationalised banking sectors couldn’t have been highlighted in starker fashion this week, as ABN Amro bought parts of Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment bank in the Netherlands. Some of the bankers affected will be returning to their roots at the Dutch institution, which is reinventing itself as a merchant bank.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch is on the hunt for new corporate broking talent following the departure of three managing directors in as many months. The most recent defection came this week as the head of its corporate broking division left for Barclays Capital.