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The Swiss bank posted the biggest quarterly profit on record thanks to an accounting gain related to its acquisition of Credit Suisse, but weak performance at its former rival hints at a long road back to growth
Imminent half year results will reveal whether the new Swiss bank is a hastily patched monster or a new financial powerhouse
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At the end of a strong year, Deutsche Bank told investors that its investment bank had not simply benefitted from a rising tide lifting all boats, but that it would be able to carry on generating much of the extra revenue it created in 2020. It also boasted of working on a number of European sovereign debt deals. -
As investors sought gold and silver as a hedge against inflation and uncertainty, investment banks with the capabilities to act in these markets benefitted. Some made more than $100m in precious metals in the third quarter, according to Coalition Greenwich.
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Commerzbank has endured a tough year but, with a new strategy on the way, loan impairments lower than at many peers, and executives seeing an uptick in its trade finance business, the worst may be behind it.
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Crédit Agricole benefitted from brisk capital markets activity in the third quarter, its results on Tuesday showed, while it has also set up a private investment banking division for wealthy individuals and families.
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UniCredit’s CEO Jean Pierre Mustier delivered an upbeat assessment of the bank’s third quarter results on Thursday, confirming its profit and provisioning guidance for the year, though debt capital markets revenue sagged.
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Société Générale’s third quarter investment banking figures showed a sharp improvement from earlier in the year, as the impact of the European dividend cancellations and losses on complex structured products washed out of the numbers. But the French firm’s financing activities, geared more to aircraft and project lending than its rivals, have seen less benefit from booming corporate debt markets.
