29 Jun 2011

Worst M+A Deals in Banking History

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Bankamerica/Countrywide Credit , Commerzbank/Dresdner Bank , Lloyds TSB/HBOS , RBS/ABN Amro ....the list is long and the memories have begun...
20 Jun 2011

Regulation will atrophy banking industry

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The failure of governments and regulators in reforming the global banking systems in any meaningful way is illustrated by news that more exa...
17 Jun 2011

Oppenheim / Deutsche Bank - Haste makes Waste

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While it may appear to be a cheap shot to criticise Deutsche Bank's takeover and rescue of Germany's venerable Sal. Oppenheim in t...
7 Jun 2011

How to prepare for slowdown in investment banking

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Predictions of a decline of 16 percent in global investment banking revenues will pose a serious challenge for investment banks and securiti...
25 May 2011

UBS: dramatic appeal by Chief Executive Gruebel

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Oswald Gruebel's dramatic appeal to the staff of UBS's US investment banking staff demonstrates the difficulty of managing today...
17 May 2011

Good Management must show Empathy

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If reports are true that the UBS's chief of investment banking scolded his staff for behaving like spoiled children he may well have s...
16 May 2011

Bank Austria pays for costly Kazakh mistake

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We were concerned about the high price that BA paid for ATF Bank in 2007 and our worries about buying an emerging market bank were proven c...

Not all firms can occupy top position

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When a senior executive of UBS admits that the bank may no longer aim for the top spot in the rankings of global investment banks he puts th...
28 Apr 2011

Mitsubishi/Morgan Stanley JV loses big on Derivative Bet

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One should have thought that the turmoil of the past few years has led managements in all securities units to batten down the hatches and ke...
6 Apr 2011

Size matters - but not in the way the consultants think

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A well-known consultant to private banks recently claimed that smaller (Swiss) Wealth Management Banks face a challenging future. The proble...