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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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  • Options trading volumes on the dollar against the yen has continued to spike following the Bank of Japan’s unexpected announcement that it would ramp up its monetary stimulus in another round of quantitative and qualitative easing.
  • There has been a surge in investor interest to structure cheap VIX-based tail risk trades to hedge against a sharp rise in volatility.
  • US stock exchanges have come under fire for providing preferential treatment to high frequency trading firms in recent years years as scores of investors learned their trades could be undercut by computerised algorithms. SEC whistleblower Haim Bodek lifts the lid on the SEC's recent approval of new order types at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
  • Kokou Agbo-Bloua, the ex-head of European equity and derivative strategy at BNP Paribas in London, has joined Société Générale as managing director, global head of engineering and strategy, also based in London.
  • Bloomberg has launched a so-called List Trading tool for interest rate swaps on its swap execution facility, enabling market participants to improve operational efficiency.
  • Deutsche Bank is pulling out the stops to succeed in its ambition to be Europe’s clear and consistent leader in corporate finance, writes David Rothnie.