M&A focus: No deal
StalledThis year, April was cruelly slow. In that month, global M&A volumes hit a five-year low, turning over just $113.4 bn of...
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Sell side Archive
The meaning of AAA rating
As a rookie reporter for a capital markets magazine, I once asked an investment banker what credit rating the World Bank carried....
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Back to the drawing board: changes in the old sell-side model
People have been proclaiming the death of the sell side for years, but it is hard to deny that it now faces a more serious...
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Stock exchanges offer an increasing number IRO services
The downturn has halted the pre-recession stock exchange boom. Coupled with an IPO market at its slackest for more than 10 years...
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Smartening their act
Corporate access teams across Europe have been slashed as banks look to cut costs wherever they can. Some have seen head-count...
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Policy watch
The 2009 proxy season is shaping up to be a bloody one, with institutions keen to rein in management after a year of bankruptcies...
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M&A roundup: Martin Sorrell strikes again
An air of inevitability surrounded the decision by marketing research group Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) to accept a £1.2 bn ($1.98...
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Extreme Measures: how to measure success in IR
It’s a fuzzy business, IR, as much art as science, with no revenues, profits or margins to judge its performance. Stock price is a...
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Ten commandments for the sell side
Many an axe has already fallen as investment banks reel toward a possible recession. But one sell-side business area seems to be...
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As they see it
Monitoring investor sentiment The IROs ‘I have become a huge fan of the investor perception study (IPS) and would highly advocate...
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