Investment Banking

DIBC's clients have used the firm for a variety of assignments in the investment banking sector: competitor or best practice analysis; entry strategies into new geographic markets; alternative strategies, and published surveys of industry leaders on the sector's key issues.

Recent Assignments:

• Evaluated international expansion alternatives, including an entry strategy into the European market for a major US retail brokerage house
• Employed on two separate occasions by leading international consulting firms to survey a range of UK-based senior investment banking executives to obtain their views on key current issues in the business. Issues covered included technology, consolidation, and strategies for dealing with a downturn in the market
• Evaluated possible expansion strategies in the overall EU marketplace for leading national investment banks in a mid-sized EU country and in South Africa
• Evaluated the pan-European investment banking strategy of a major European universal bank

Publications:

Investment Banking: managing the issues

(Published in 2003 by Macmillan/Palgrave)

Global investment banking: which new players will make the team?
(Salomon Brothers)

Main Contacts:

Steve Davis
Brenda Jenner
Bernard Tournier