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Deutsche Bank may devote more resources to its Schuldschein business after its restructuring and cutting of its equities business, a senior banker has said, though it does not plan to hire any extra staff in the area. -
Everyone had been expecting another strategy overhaul from Deutsche Bank, but no-one expected the depth of the cuts to be so brutal. The bank is to end much of its equities business and refocus on corporate banking, and shed nearly 20,000 jobs. But observers are wary about the bank’s ability to restructure without inflicting more pain than it has forecast.
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Deutsche Bank’s strategic overhaul looks set to maintain the bank’s leading position in debt capital markets and leveraged finance. But it casts doubts over Deutsche’s ability to retain a top tier corporate finance franchise and could signal the slow death of its equity capital markets franchise, writes David Rothnie.
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UBS’s decision to create a global team dedicated to private capital markets is symptomatic of a shift in how companies finance themselves and time their IPOs. With vast pools of private capital available, companies are going public later in their lifecycles, leading to stretched valuations and fewer listed companies. Aidan Gregory reports.
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Deutsche Bank’s staff were dealt a crushing blow this week when it announced a full exit from the equities business and 18,000 job cuts globally. In Asia, the move has led to the equities capital markets unit all but disappearing. Jonathan Breen reports.
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UBS has created a new global team focused on private capital markets, giving it more exposure to a rapidly growing area of finance, as companies go public later in their life cycles and the amount of institutional and private money dedicated to private equity has grown and become more sophisticated.
