ME investment banking fees tops $535mMiddle Eastern investment banking fees reached $536.1 million during 2012, a 19 per cent increase over 2011, a report said. Equity capital markets issuance reached $9.4 billion during 2012 while total debt issuance reached $38.6 b More… |
$4.6bn writedown for Credit AgricoleFalling profits in retail and investment banking left investors worried whether Credit Agricole is on the mend after the French bank took $4.6 billion of writedowns to try to draw a line under ill-fated deals. France's No 3 ba More… |
Barclays to restructure investment bank armBarclays announced a shake up at its investment banking business on Thursday aimed at streamlining the business in the face of a more challenging outlook for the industry. Rich Ricci, head of corporate and investment banking, told More… |
Investment banking 'faces major shakeout'Investment banking faces a shakeout and only large commercial players and boutiques offering outstanding service will survive and prosper, the head of emerging markets banking specialist Renaissance Group said. Investment banks are undergo More… |
Emirates NBD names new CEO for top unitsEmirates NBD, a leading financial services group, has appointed Mohammad Kamran Wajid as new CEO of Emirates NBD Capital and Emirates Financial Services. In his new role, Kamran will drive the transformation of Emirates NBD Group's Investm More… |
Bank of America Mena head resignsBank of America Corp's investment banking head for Mena and Turkey, Waleed El-Amir, has resigned, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, the latest top banker to leave the US lender. El-Amir, a veteran Merrill Lynch bank More… |
Investment banking hits Barclays Q4 profitBarclays said its key investment bank arm ended last year with its worst quarter for three years as the euro zone debt crisis hit bond trading activity, dragging the British bank's annual profit down on the year before. Barclays, Britain' More… |
Rasmala hires new investment banking headRasmala Investment Bank has hired Zaid Ghoul as its new head of investment banking, the company's chairman said Tuesday. Ghoul, who joins Rasmala from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a partner focusing on corporate finance and bu More… |
ENBD consolidates investment bankingEmirates NBD, Dubai's largest lender, has consolidated its investment banking and financial advisory businesses under its Emirates NBD Capital unit and appointed Mohammed Wajid Kamran as general manager of the arm, according to an internal bank me More… |
Mashreq names investment banking headMashreq Bank , Dubai's second largest lender by market value, has appointed Julio de Quesada as the new head of its corporate and investment banking group, the lender said on Sunday. De Quesada was previously the head Saudi Arabia's Bank A More… |








