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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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Standard Chartered prides itself on being an emerging markets bank, but with London being the base for its senior management, headquarters and its main board listing, there is a mismatch between the bank’s leadership and the markets in which it operates. With all the signs pointing to the exit this year of long-serving CEO Peter Sands, it’s time for the bank to end the disconnect between its head and its heart. -
Standard Bank has closed a sale of 60% of its markets business to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a deal which the bank will use to further “the group’s growth strategy in South Africa, and across the African continent.”
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Volumes in market adjusted coupon swap trading are increasing due to margin efficiencies, increased liquidity and the ease of trading, according to speakers at the TABB Forum Fixed Income 2015 conference in New York on Thursday.
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As buyside firms transact in ever larger volumes, asset managers need to reduce the delta risk, known as DV01, the change in the value of their trades caused by a basis point change in rates. However, this is very difficult as capital requirements for investment banks mean that a dealer’s ability to warehouse risk for its buyside clients is diminished.
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After a brutal year in 2014, in which several senior staff were cut or left the bank, UBS’s European levfin business has a fixer in the shape of Jim Boland.
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Having established itself as a player in European DCM, the bank has bigger ambitions in fixed income and beyond, writes David Rothnie.
