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July 2010
Europe’s third-largest hedge fund manager has made the most of an attractive environment for discretionary trading strategies, especially in fixed income.
The investment bank of the year has performed strongly where you’d expect it to – in flow, debt and derivatives – and surprised many with its advances in M&A and corporate finance.
The French bank swam against the tide – and won – with products such as equity volatility swaps, while maintaining a process involving transparency, suitability and risk control.
The acquisition of Lehman Brothers gave Barclays Capital the momentum to become a clear global leader in the part of the business most investment banks are desperate to grow.
Banks in the UAE are a long way from provisioning for Dubai’s debt and property crises.
The head of securitization at a leading Wall Street firm explained how Wall Street was forced to invent the mezzanine CDO market to export the sub-prime residential mortgage backed securities the Wall Street machine was churning out. The US securitization industry had been pouring out toxic waste on an epic scale and was now desperately seeking new fools to buy it.
How to succeed in a crisis, November 2007
