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• Barclays' IB strategy validated ahead of Bramson clash

  

  Barclays is under pressure from activist investor Edward Bramson to slim down its investment bank. But among top European IBs, it made the second highest amount of revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2018, according to new research. The results were less promising for Deutsche Bank, however.

  • 21 Mar 2019

• EU finally agrees on new Juncker financing splurge

  

  The European Parliament and member states reached a provisional agreement on Wednesday afternoon on InvestEU, a new vehicle looking likely to trigger at least €650bn of investment from 2021 to 2027.

  • 21 Mar 2019

• IMF loan conditions detrimental to local policies in poor countries, says report

  

  Do conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund when it lends money to countries under its bailout programmes end up weakening states? Experts are divided, as Phil Thornton reports.

  • 21 Mar 2019

• World Bank shareholders to grill Malpass on Monday

  

  US President Donald Trump’s nominee for head of the World Bank, David Malpass, will be examined by the bank’s executive directors on Monday, GlobalCapital can reveal. By Phil Thornton.

  • 21 Mar 2019

• Citi wins box seat on Deutsche and opens gate to Flood

  

  The Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank talks have given Europe’s FIG bankers an unexpected source of cheer, writes David Rothnie.

  • 21 Mar 2019

• Citi launches Brexit-proof Frankfurt branch

  

  Citigroup’s new operations in Frankfurt are designed to help it continue offering services for clients after Brexit, and it is moving around 80 staff from London. It is one of a number of big US banks to expand in the German city.

  • 19 Mar 2019

• The perverse logic of Deutsche-Commerzbank

  

  The potential merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank has been repeatedly panned since it was first floated, with good reason. But at the level of the whole German banking system, there is a certain logic to it.

  • 19 Mar 2019

• KfW would provide Deutschmerz exit for German gov

  

  KfW, the German state-owned development bank, could be used to support the merged entity of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank by taking on the government's stake in the latter.

  • 18 Mar 2019

• Deutsche’s misfiring CIB a crucial factor in Commerz merger plans

  

  Deutsche Bank has signalled its commitment to maintaining a “strong capital markets business” after admitting it has begun formal merger talks with smaller rival Commerzbank.

  • 18 Mar 2019

• Malpass emerges as lone candidate to take helm at World Bank

  

  David Malpass, the US's candidate for the presidency of the World Bank, appeared last night on track to take over the leadership of the world’s largest multilateral lender.

  • 14 Mar 2019

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