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Decision to sponsor cycling team guarantees to generate huge media coverage.

TCI

Citi The bank’s emerging markets business has excelled despite the tough conditions and Citi’s own troubles.

This time last year, Phil Green had plenty to smile about.

While its big cousin in the north is experiencing a spot of financial bother, Latin America goes from strength to strength. When historians come to judge the past 12 months, they might well come to regard it as a watershed period for the region.

Russia is one of the most fiercely competitive banking markets in the central and eastern European region thanks to the continued strength of the domestic economy. State-owned banks such as Sberbank and VTB performed well over the past year as did foreign banks such as Raiffeisen and UniCredit. But Alfa Bank retains its best bank crown as a result of having the best-balanced universal banking franchise. Alfa is a force to be reckoned with right across the retail, corporate and investment banking spectrum, which means it is well placed to take full advantage of the buoyant economic conditions in Russia.

BNP Paribas

Merrill Lynch

Tudor Investment Group, the $18 billion alternatives firm, has hired Greg Hanley and Alan Mintz, co-heads of the distressed debt group at Bear Stearns, to head a new business focusing on credit-related strategies. Three other Bear Stearns employees are also joining the group.

RBS RBS has risen to the stiff challenge of the European market post credit crunch and established a serious US franchise.

Goldman Sachs

Barclays Capital