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20 December, 2016

Alternative Review of the Year. Pyrrhic Victory of the Year: Goldman Sachs vs Libyan Investment Authority

Euromoney, December 2016 Bravo, Goldman Sachs, for emerging victorious from the Libyan Investment Authority’s more than $1 billion […]
16 December, 2016

Year in Data 2016: China’s Dominance of Investment Banking Fees Reaches Troubling Levels

Euromoney, December 2016 It is no secret that China is the biggest game in town in Asia-Pacific investment […]
1 December, 2016

Shenzhen-HK Connect Arrives as Insurers are Pilloried for Investment

Euromoney, December 2016 The long-awaited launch of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect has coincided with an increasingly troubled attitude […]
1 December, 2016

Investigations Leave Hong Kong’s Bankers Nervous

Euromoney, December 2016 Cautious schadenfreude might be the best way to describe the general mood in Hong Kong […]
1 December, 2016

Leissner’s Loss is Not Necessarily Goldman’s Gain

Euromoney, December 2016 DBS, UBS, Standard Chartered, Coutts, Falcon, BSI. One by one, the banks involved in the […]
1 December, 2016

Allure of the Chinese Buyer Begins to Fade

Euromoney, December 2016 Outbound M&A from China has been one of the big themes in global investment banking […]
1 December, 2016

CSR’s Blue Sky Thinking

Euromoney, December 2016 At BNP Paribas’s recent Sustainable Future Forum in Singapore every presentation was prefaced by a […]
1 December, 2016

Japan: the Surprise US Election Winner

Euromoney, December 2016 The aftermath of the Trump US election victory produced many oddities, not least this one: […]
1 December, 2016

Korea’s Chaebol Reform a Rare Bonus for Bankers

Euromoney, December 2016 With deal volumes weak across most of Asia, South Korea’s latest round of chaebol reform […]
15 November, 2016

Blockchain Landmarks Point to Revolution in Trade Finance

Euromoney, November 2016 There will be many steps in the process of making blockchain technologies widespread in trade […]
3 November, 2016

Australia’s Future Fund Tilt Pays Off

Euromoney, November 2016 The chief investment officer of Australia’s sovereign Future Fund says its groundbreaking private equity allocation […]
2 November, 2016

Singapore Exchange Looks Beyond Listings

Euromoney, November 2016 There is a long list of structural challenges facing Singapore as a listing venue: a […]