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Corporate broking relationships endure for decades and build deep roots between both individuals and institutions, enabling banks to win outsized revenues from clients they serve. No wonder that a new crop of banks are expanding their ambitions
Five months in, Alessandro Melzi is getting started on the plan, but his boss is about to change
The launch of a €35bn exchange offer for Germany’s Commerzbank marks a decisive attempt to break a stalemate that has frustrated Andrea Orcel in his quest to turn UniCredit into a pan-European banking champion
Bank strives for ‘complete global offering’ in M&A and ECM but market conditions hang in the balance
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  • The Asian debt capital market did not have an easy 2015 with numerous macro and political headwinds causing a fall in new issuance. While jittery conditions are here to stay, Clifford Lee, head of fixed income for DBS, told GlobalCapital Asia that his business is well positioned to combat the volatility.
  • The merger between capital financing and banking is a logical staging post in the transformation of HSBC’s investment banking aspirations, writes David Rothnie
  • HSBC has hired Matthew Westerman, former chairman of EMEA investment banking at Goldman Sachs, as co-head of global banking. The division will expand to take in capital financing and the larger clients from commercial banking.
  • The Asian DCM market did not have an easy 2015 with numerous macro and political headwinds causing a fall in new issuance. While jittery conditions are here to stay, Clifford Lee, head of fixed income for DBS, told GlobalCapital Asia that his business is well positioned to combat the volatility.
  • Crédit Agricole penned an €18bn deal to simplify its complex ownership structure, something investors have long criticised, to boost its capital base and allow it to pay dividends fully in cash.
  • The French bank has simplified its investment banking structure, ending a year of uncertainty and turning the focus of its coverage teams away from London, writes David Rothnie.