Crédit Agricole CIB’s improving advisory prowess alongside its lending strength helped push it ahead of its peers.

Barclays was intrinsically involved in the big events and deals of an extraordinary year for debt markets.

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Regulatory blessing for capital return highlights the increasing faith in Citi under the leadership of Michael Corbat.

From the strengths of its event-driven base, the firm has built a risk-management platform that far more than just its advisory clients rely on

In 15 years, Jiang Jianqing has taken ICBC from technical bankruptcy to the world’s most profitable bank.

Algomi, the non-bank, is driving innovation in the bond market, being both a disrupter and the enabler for banks.

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The bank matches itself against the biggest names in the market – and stands up well.

Citi is the last global wholesale bank offering all products to its clients everywhere. It operates in 100 countries and boasts a payment system handling $3 trillion of transactions a day, which no other bank is ever likely to emulate. It has taken the axe to its global consumer business, but still operates in 24 countries. Under the leadership of Michael Corbat, Citi has closed the share price discount to book value. It must now prove that a global universal bank can avoid the pitfalls of scale and deliver sustainable returns. If it does, it will be the only one

From supporting impact investment and leading from the front as the green bond market flourishes, to backing women entrepreneurs and mentoring young people, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has done it all in the last 12 months.

Goldman dumbfounds its rivals with a stunning comeback from ninth in the league table to once again dominate the advisory market.

Credit Suisse stands out among its European and US peers, for both the strength of its origination business, and its advice to sellers and buyers alike.

Under the leadership of James Gorman, Morgan Stanley has carved out a unique position in global banking. It remains a great investment bank. Its much-maligned FICC division now looks fit for purpose. And its US wealth management arm gives the firm new stability and strength. Most important of all, the disparate parts of a once-divided business are delivering the benefits of the whole firm. And the markets are starting to realize the potential of a new Morgan Stanley as well.

In a difficult market, Credit Suisse used its experience and innovation to stay ahead of the pack.

Loan production offices instead of branches; tech tie-ups lead to nationwide presence.

It is now a mark of the serious individual in finance to issue a dire warning about the threat posed by a lack of market liquidity. What climate change is to the young liberal (or young person), so liquidity has become to the ageing plutocrat, secure perhaps in his own billions, but with a furrowed brow as he contemplates the potential havoc that could be wreaked by diminished liquidity.

$15 billion raised year-to-date for tech venture capital; financial services tough to disintermediate.

Deutsche Bank’s Strategy 2020 – which led to the resignations of co-CEOs Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen – was a study in how to obfuscate and overwhelm reality in a way that simply didn’t add up.

Little known outside the banking industry, John Cryan could prove a very capable chief executive of Deutsche Bank, as long as he can cope with life under public scrutiny.