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Bank M&A is back on the agenda, but talk of SMBC buying Jefferies is premature. The two firms are prioritising their multi-stranded alliance and a takeover now would jeopardise it
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
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CEO Antony Jenkins praised Barclays as a bond arranger, leveraged finance, advisory and ECM house on Thursday, while simultaneously announcing 7,000 job cuts, to fall mainly on front-office trading businesses.
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Finma, the Swiss regulator, has set out new capital standards for UBS and Credit Suisse, covering the “too big to fail” capital buffer. As a result, UBS will need capital totalling 19.2% of risk weighted assets, while Credit Suisse will need 16.7% by 2019.
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For the 25th anniversary edition of Asiamoney, we asked a selection of bank chief executive officers from across the region to offer their thoughts about the evolution of their institutions, the biggest challenges they face today, and what critical developments they believe Asia needs in order for its financial industry to flourish. -
After 32 years at Unilever Thailand, Kannikar Chalitaporn took over Siam Commercial Bank’s (SCB) retail banking group in 2002. She oversaw a new focus on customers that helped transform SCB's franchise, before becoming president in 2007. Chalitaporn tells Asiamoney about the challenges the firm has faced.
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Chanda Kochhar has done it all at ICICI. She joined in 1984 when it was still a project finance institution. Ten years she set up ICICI's commercial banking business after it received a banking licence, and in 2000 she built its retail arm. Kochhar ran corporate and international banking in 2006 and 2007, became CFO in 2007 and was appointed CEO in 2009. She tells Asiamoney how the bank intends to grow next.
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The CEO of Japan’s largest bank joined Nomura in 1981 as a retail salesperson, and worked his way up to become a manager, overseeing three branches of the bank at different periods. Koji Nagai then moved to investment banking, where he was eventually promoted to run the division, before becoming president of Nomura Securities in April 2012 and group CEO in August of the same year. He tells Asiamoney how Nomura can benefit from Asia’s growing economies.
