Latest articles from Geraldine Lambe

Robin Houldsworth

August 7, 2006

Robin Houldsworth, CEO of interdealer brokerage Tradition, talks to Geraldine Lambe about how the firm is expanding both its business horizons and its geographical spread, and expects massive consolidation in its specialist market.

The carbon emissionaries

July 3, 2006

The carbon emissions trading market is still developing. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein tells Geraldine Lambe about the ‘derivatisation’ and project-based credits that will drive it further.

Huw Jenkins

July 3, 2006

UBS Investment Bank’s chairman and CEO tells Geraldine Lambe about the bank’s investment strategy that encompasses continued investment in Latin America and China as well as a build up in leveraged finance.

Andrea Orcel

June 5, 2006

Merrill Lynch’s co-head of global markets and investment banking, EMEA, tells Geraldine Lambe how the firm is keeping a client-centric approach to new opportunities and that EMEA is fired up for further growth.

Keeping up with the Goldmans

May 2, 2006

Goldman Sachs has morphed from old-school investment bank to modern investment and trading house with huge earnings growth and, despite heavy criticism for opaqueness, where it goes, others are bound to follow. Geraldine Lambe reports.
Good results are not always good news. At least, they do not always generate good news. Goldman Sachs’ Q1 results blew away every prediction. Earnings were up 62% on the same quarter in 2005; there was massive growth in just about every area of its business, but it was in the triple digits for fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC, 102%), debt underwriting (129%) and equities trading (167%).

Peter Goettler Joe McGrath Rick Van Zijl

May 2, 2006

Barclays Capital’s head of debt capital markets and investment banking, Americas, as well as the co-heads of leveraged finance, Americas, tell Geraldine Lambe how they plan to capture market share from the incumbent US heavyweights.

Jacques d’Estais

April 3, 2006

BNP Paribas’ new global corporate and investment banking chief says the bank needs only slight adjustments to its well-oiled machinery. He explains why to Geraldine Lambe.

Klaus Diederichs

March 6, 2006

Public perceptions of JPMorgan belie the fact that its investment banking business has crept up stealthily on its competitors and can now boast stellar growth and healthy revenues. Geraldine Lambe talks to JPMorgan’s head of investment banking for Europe, Klaus Diederichs.

Benoit d’Angelin and Perry Hoffmeister

February 6, 2006

Benoit d’Angelin and Perry Hoffmeister, co-heads of European investment banking at Lehman Brothers, talk to Geraldine Lambe about the firm’s transformation into a major European player.

Yesterday’s wild upstarts, today’s founding fathers

January 2, 2006

In 80 years the world’s financial markets and the corporate landscape have been transformed out of all recognition. Somewhere along the way Eurobonds, financial futures, securitisation and derivatives were all invented. But by whom? Geraldine Lambe tracked down some of the great innovators of the past few decades and talked to them about the times when long-dated floating rate notes were regarded as dangerous products, the futures business meant pork bellies and orange juice, and a $1m fee was considered outrageous.

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