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Banker is moving to Greece as focus grows in connecting its capital markets and banking sector to international investors
Picking the wrong deal to finance can lead to public opprobrium. Banks must abandon the fiction that they are mere conduits for their clients if they care about reputational risk
The bank is reducing its reliance on leveraged finance with big ambitions in M&A and ECM
US independent advisory firm is challenging Goldman Sachs at the top of the UK M&A rankings. Is it individual brilliance or luck?
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Ignacio Blasco, who was a leveraged finance banker at Société Générale for 12 years, has joined investment bank Houlihan Lokey after a short spell in direct lending. -
UBS’s new head of corporate client solutions in EMEA believes the bank can weather any downturn in FIG revenues and make the running in M&A, writes David Rothnie.
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BNP Paribas has reshuffled the management of its global markets business, making Martin Egan a vice-chairman of the global markets client board and promoting syndicate boss Fred Zorzi to head of primary markets. Benjamin Jacquard, who was co-head of primary and credit markets with Egan, will be leaving the firm and is thought to be heading to the buy-side.
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Saudi Arabia’s debt markets are open for business, the hiring charge is on and foreign banks are flooding in, but there has been a struggle to build a local force of primary bond market bankers, boding ill for the capital markets expansion the country is hoping for.
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The bank is showing some much-needed urgency after losing momentum in Europe, but the fate of its investment banking strategy could lie in the hands of regulators, writes David Rothnie.
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Barclays reported annual results on Thursday, revealing the huge scale of the firm’s trading balance sheet expansion in 2017, as it scales back up in its historical strength of macro trading. But the low volatility last year weighed on returns, and the growth in the trading book has yet to deliver the profits it hopes for.
