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The firm has extended its credit derivatives activities way beyond the flow sectors, notably in an illiquids group that covers special situations and principal finance.

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With three home markets in one of western Europe’s wealthiest regions and many more farther east, UniCredit has grown the most pan-European of retail banking networks quickly and profitably through well-executed acquisitions. The success of the bank and its chief executive, Alessandro Profumo, has also rehabilitated the image of Italian banks in the eyes of international competitors and investors. No longer a joke, Italian banks mean business and none more so than UniCredit, Europe’s second-largest bank and Euromoney’s clear choice for best bank in western Europe this year.

The US bank has been present from the ground floor up in emerging market takeovers of developed market companies and cross-border emerging market deals.

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In the July 2007 edition of Euromoney, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis gave a rare in-depth interview. Lewis said: "We are not believers in the build it and they will come mantra. We need to look our shareholders in the eye". "In time, we want to be one of the top five investment banks in the world". More than 18 months ago Euromoney said: "Bank of America is at a tipping point. Ken Lewis is about to face his biggest challenge yet." Little did we know how great the challenge would be. Re-read the story here

A respect for existing management at buyout targets is central to the success of Steve Feinberg’s Cerberus.

RBS’s activities continue to demonstrate the advantages of project finance structures versus ever-growing competition from other forms of funding.

Banking and financial services in Latin America go from strength to strength.

Most of the groundbreaking deals in the ABS market this year have one thing in common: Citi’s involvement.

Calyon is said by well-placed sources to have hired Graham Clapham and Tim Taubman. Both are joining the institutional sales desk reporting to Kieran Salter in London. Clapham was previously at Bank of America in hedge fund sales and Taubman was at Credit Suisse and previously Brevan Howard. There was no confirmation from Calyon at the time of writing.