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  • As Jamie Dimon signs on for another five years at the top of JP Morgan, what’s the secret sauce at the world’s top investment bank?
  • Jamie Dimon, chief executive and chairman of JP Morgan, will be running the firm for at least the next five years, ending speculation that he will retire or run for office.
  • Martin Weber, a Goldman Sachs managing director, is moving to Dubai to run the bank’s MENA financing group, with more hires planned to follow in the region.
  • Japanese banks have a spring in their step in the Middle East as they roll out expansion plans, but, asks David Rothnie, can they take on more established Western rivals?
  • Banks across the Street have sought to woo shareholders with business models that celebrate the holy matrimony between Steady Eddie wealth management and (supposedly) reformed wild child investment banking. But the repercussions on bank earnings from the demise of South African retailer Steinhoff are a reminder that the course of true love never did run smooth.
  • All of the US banks that reported results this week booked losses related to troubled South African retailer Steinhoff, other than Morgan Stanley — despite the close relationship between the bank and the firm, which saw it handed a plumb gloco role on the IPO of its African retail arm in September.