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  • Independent investment banks have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the turmoil wrought by the financial crisis of 2008, and they now have an air of permanence about them, writes David Rothnie.
  • Following a stress test result that saw its stressed capital ratio dip into negative territory, Monte dei Paschi di Siena is once again turning to heavy duty financial engineering to save its skin, with a giant non-performing loan securitization — the largest ever structured — to clean its balance sheet and unlock a €5bn rights issue. The bank, however, has a tradition of relentless innovation in finance, which hasn’t always served it well.
  • Jean-Pierre Mustier’s had a busy first month at UniCredit. Already, the new CEO has launched a strategic review, sold 10% each of FinecoBank and Bank Pekao, made a host of senior appointments and scrapped two-year-old talks with Santander about combining their asset management businesses.
  • New UniCredit chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier has moved quickly to stamp his mark on the bank’s organisation and senior management, as well as reshuffling the top ranks of the financing and advisory business.
  • The new head of EMEA CIB has a clear plan and a determination to prove Deutsche can be Europe’s only global bank, writes David Rothnie.
  • The woes of the Deutsche Bank, proclaimed the world’s riskiest global systemically important bank (G-Sib) by the International Monetary Fund, were compounded on Wednesday morning when it reported second quarter results. Headline figures confirmed that a challenging operating environment, as well as the bank’s painful 2020 restructuring plan, are hitting operations hard.