Finance Updates – Page 11 – Finance Updates

Q1 2025 Europe M&A Advisory Rankings: Value Leaders vs Volume Champions

Europe M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

In Q1 2025, Goldman Sachs led European M&A ad...

Jefferies, Bank of America, Barclays and Laza...

Goldman Sachs retained its top value rank des...

For Q1–Q3 2025, Bank of America topped value ...

Deutsche Bank Restructures Advisory & Origination with Regional Leadership Shakeup

Europe Firms Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Deutsche Bank is restructuring its global ori...

The new structure installs Pierpaolo Di Stefa...

Alison Harding-Jones has taken over from reti...

The shake-up comes after an 8% drop in Q1 202...

Lazard Boosts Growth: Deal-Fee Floors, Private Capital, & Senior MD Expansion Propel Revenue

Europe Firms Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Lazard is pushing MD productivity by raising ...

Financial Advisory revenue rose 21% year-over...

Advisory work tied to private capital now exc...

Margin improvement depends on sustaining high...

Perella Weinberg Expands Into Secondaries with Devon Park Deal, Eyes GP-Led Growth

Global M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Perella Weinberg Partners is acquiring Devon ...

The deal positions PWP to capitalize on the f...

PWP is funding this strategic expansion from ...

Key uncertainties include acquisition economi...

CBIZ Expands with Marcum Buyout: Growth, Risks, & Advisory Challenges

Global M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

CBIZ’s Deal Advisory Services sit within its ...

The $2.3 billion Marcum deal is intended to m...

Advisory revenues remain muted and highly sen...

Key risks center on realizing $35–50 million ...

Inside Kroll’s M&A Advisory Services: How It Outpaces Banks & Big Four in Middle Market

Global M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Kroll provides end-to-end M&A advisory and ca...

The firm differentiates through senior-level ...

Kroll’s transaction advisory teams deliver cr...

Strategically, Kroll is scaling its global pl...

Why U.S. Banks Strengthened EMEA Fee Dominance Amid EU’s Tariff Hopes

Global Markets Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Trump’s new tariffs did not push business tow...

European banks’ advisory and equity underwrit...

Tariffs have led forecasters to cut eurozone ...

Structural disadvantages in scale, capital an...

Banking Sector Braces for AI-Driven Job Shift as Reskilling Becomes Essential

Europe Forecast Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Morgan Stanley projects AI will cut about 200...

Bloomberg Intelligence expects up to 200,000 ...

WEF and other studies show many employers pla...

Macro data so far (Yale–Brookings, Fed survey...

Siinqee Bank Set to Become Ethiopia’s Third Investment Bank with Br497M Push

Asia M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Siinqee Bank has applied to the Ethiopian Cap...

Siinqee will own 90% of the new unit, with th...

The bank’s strong balance sheet—about 121 bil...

This move aligns with Ethiopia’s broader fina...

How Investment Banking, ESG & Policy Must Align for Haiti at the 2026 Winter Paralympics

Europe FYI Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Ralf Etienne, a 36-year-old Bank of America i...

After losing his leg in Haiti’s 2010 earthqua...

U.S. immigration restrictions on Haitians in ...

His Paralympic bid depends on quickly earning...