Investment Banking

As the global investment banking business enters its third year of lower revenues following the peak year of 2000, Bank management must address a host of issues: Business mix, Cost Management Risk, aligning interests of professionals with stockholders and attracting and leading a unique team of professionals. Based on an extensive interview series with over 50 banking professionals and independent experts, this book defines best practice in addressing each issue. It concludes with the outlook for the medium term expressed by interviewees as well as by the author's own views.

Autorentext
STEVEN I. DAVIS is a graduate of Amherst College and the Harvard Business School. He has spent his career in finance as a banking executive, management consultant, researcher, author and teacher. During his twenty year banking career, he was an officer of JP Morgan and Bankers Trust as well as the Managing Director of a London-based merchant bank. Since forming Davis International Banking Consultants in 1980, he has directed strategy studies for over 100 banking clients in the US and Europe. He lives in London.

Inhalt
Introduction A Brief History: Getting Here From There The Business Model: Products, Client & Markets People: The Role of Culture and Leadership Structure & Process Compensation Risk Management Cost Management Growing by Mergers and Acquisitions Case Studies in Success Views for the Future Our Own Views