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The bank's ability to offer a full set of services almost everywhere around the globe sets it apart from the competition.
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A regional SME champion shows how to operate on the world stage.
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Few banks have navigated turbulent times so well, posting record revenues on the back of strong net inflows and rising markets.
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Societe Generale has accelerated its transition and is using important mandates to convince its internal and external audiences alike.
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The ability to work seamlessly across markets and asset classes paid off for the US firm in a challenging year.
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Andrea Orcel’s long-awaited debut as a bank chief executive has won over the markets, largely thanks to capital returns. But his plans for UniCredit go far beyond balance-sheet management and costs. He now sees a chance to demonstrate growth.
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It is in difficult times that the best franchises prove their mettle. JPMorgan’s formidable corporate and investment bank – now bolstered through its integration of commercial banking – was the one to beat over the last year. No rival can match its breadth, but the firm’s rejection of complacency means that it never stops improving.
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The bank is willing to spend its considerable technology budget on both exciting new ideas and on existing services that improve the lives of its customers.
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The bank is leveraging all its resources to reach six million individuals by 2025. It is well on its way.
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As balance sheet pressures have intensified, Morgan Stanley has been at the forefront of a changing financial sector landscape.
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The bank says it is succeeding with Open Account Automation, the first module of a long-term initiative to digitize trade finance through new platform CashPro Supply Chain Solutions.
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The bank has become a global payments powerhouse, delivering innovation and outperformance.
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The bank’s 10-year ScotiaRise programme has gone from strength to strength, reaching out to indigenous communities and aligning with its truth and reconciliation committee’s work.
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Focusing on its core strengths has helped Deutsche Bank serve corporate clients amid intense geopolitical, technological and environmental challenges.
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In tough markets, changes in banks’ market share can be particularly telling. Mergers and acquisitions had another down year in 2023, with total volume falling to $3.13 trillion, from $4.3 trillion in 2022, when rates first started rising, and $5.7 trillion in the post-Covid boom of 2021.
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The French bank has made steady progress in this business over the last decade and last year was a strong period of new mandates and client expansion.
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The bank has cleaned up its books, closed branches and improved its cost-to-income ratio. It also paid its first dividend since 2008.
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Goldman is transforming its provision of research and insights to make it much easier for investors to form trade ideas.
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The bank’s chief executive has led from the front to create an institution that is more diverse and better reflects the society in which it works.
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After depositors fled the wreckage of the US regional banks in 2023 and customers started jumping overboard from a sinking Credit Suisse, even more banks could have been dragged into a systemic crisis. But UBS, rebuilt after the global financial crisis as a strong, sustainable and well-managed institution, responded to the rescue call from a fellow G-Sib. It rescued Switzerland as a financial centre, stopped the panic from spreading and struck a good deal for its own shareholders. Credit Suisse was not a gift. The integration will be tough. But UBS has got off to a good start and could soon relaunch its own growth story.
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With a chief executive pushing sustainable finance from the very top, HSBC is leading from the front in the global banking industry’s response to the climate emergency.
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It is not enough to have the data, banks also need to bring intelligence and financial analysis to bear in sustainable finance to keep progressing.
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The bank has made steady but still impressive improvement in its markets business over the last few years. And it was the firm among the 12 biggest to increase revenues in 2023.
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Public-sector clients had to tackle rising rates and geopolitical uncertainty in 2023, while undergoing fundamental restructuring in their sector. HSBC was instrumental in guiding them through the uncertainty.
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In the US, JPMorgan has 55 dedicated private banking offices, from Austin to Seattle, and Cincinnati to Fort Lauderdale. Elsewhere, it focuses heavily on serving high and ultra-high net-worth customers in Europe, where it has eight offices, including the UK and Germany, Asia, through Hong Kong and Singapore, and Latin America, with clients served out of Miami, New York and Switzerland.
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Citi’s securities services business has put in an excellent year both in terms of new business and digital innovation.
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BNP Paribas has a well-earned reputation for steadiness and stability. In the past year, its chief executive, Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, has also reinforced his strategic credentials with the bank’s well-timed exit from its US retail business. Today, the bank stands as the eurozone leader on the global stage and is ready to play a pivotal role in the continent’s financial development.
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The bank is prepared to make tough decisions to meet its sustainability targets.
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Recent volatility has proved that crisis preparation is the key to success in banking.
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Christian Sewing has turned Deutsche Bank around. The firm has a resilience now that would have seemed unlikely when he was appointed chief executive five years ago. By his own admission, some of the toughest work is still to be done. But the past year and the most recent banking crisis have provided a striking validation of the strategy he set in place.
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Public-sector receptivity to innovation in sustainability and tokenization helped HSBC show the markets a glimpse of the future of bonds.
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Citi’s refocused strategy is bearing fruit as growing corporate balance sheets position it for business.
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Citi’s crown jewels sparkle in a record-breaking year for the business.
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The growing weight of non-European markets speaks volumes about the Spanish bank’s EM capabilities as other global banks have headed for the exit.
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HSBC continues to lead from the front as trade finance reinvents itself.
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The Singapore bank has strengthened its proposition to serve under-represented communities and aligned its own lending operations to make an impact.
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The US bank prides itself on already looking like the world we live in.
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The tokenization of real-world assets is spreading fast, requiring the leaders of traditional finance to respond.
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Veteran Morgan Stanley investment bankers describe this as the busiest downturn they have ever seen. That is because they have worked on the biggest and most transformative deals in 12 months of shifting values and at times paralyzing uncertainty. The firm has made some cuts, but its new leaders are shaking the business up and bringing in the talent that will be in demand once markets settle.
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A bank’s sustainability strategy cannot exist without high-quality data. UBS has made it its mission to source the best.
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The Spanish lender continues to demonstrate the business case for inclusivity.
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From small-scale asset financing to innovative technologies, the French bank understands what a credible transition plan looks like.
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The US firm stood out for its response to volatility and ability to think ahead.
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The past year posed extraordinary financing challenges for the world’s corporates. However, the political and economic conditions they faced also created an opportunity for creative banks to thrive.
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Servicing demanding SME clients pays off if you take the long-term view.
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The US firm provides the right strategic advice for volatile markets.
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After reorganizing its fixed income business and boosting its presence in equities, BofA is making a bid to become a dominant force in global markets.
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A massive budget and a focus on in-house development have made the bank a digital innovator.
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Hamburg Commercial Bank is almost unrecognizable from its former incarnation as one of Germany’s most troubled state-owned banks. Now in private hands, it is proving that even legacy banks in the most sheltered parts of European finance can become dynamic and profitable institutions.
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The bank has achieved growth by extending its traditional private banking services to the mass affluent segment in Brazil.
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The French bank has been busy with landmark deals and financial innovation.
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The French bank is not only effecting internal change but is also using itself as a catalyst for wider transition.
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The businesses for which Goldman Sachs is most renowned dominated investment banking last year – but so much else is going on. The firm is enjoying the pay-off from a long effort to expand middle-market coverage and has successfully built a transaction banking platform from scratch that it can now scale up.
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The US bank’s leadership on diversity is based on its commitment to transparency.
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Banks must be able to demonstrate their ability to give the right advice in both good times and bad. Morgan Stanley shows how it is done.
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The French bank has long had global scale in fixed income, now it has the same ambitions for its equity franchise too.
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The global wealth expert has expanded its vision, horizon and profits this year
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Not content with consolidating its position at the top of the SSA rankings, JPMorgan is increasingly working with public-sector clients in frontier markets.
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From energy transition to Libor transition, the French bank is the go-to firm for many corporate clients in a time of flux. This is the result of longstanding relationships and new investment in core sectors of the franchise.
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The bank is successfully exporting its SME expertise and advanced financial technology across Asia.