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Big Four Dominate Investment Banking in Canada

19 November 2014 By: Peter Kane
Canada’s biggest banks retained their tight grip on the mergers & acquisitions, equity capital markets and debt capital markets business of the country’s larger companies as of mid-year 2014.  
Approximately 35% of large U.S. companies do business with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and J.P. Morgan.
The combination of continued rapid growth of intra-Asian trade and rock-bottom pricing on trade finance is driving a boom in the use of trade finance among large corporates in Asia.
When it comes to large corporate banking and cash management, the new strategies of the biggest global banks can be defined by one word: selectivity.
U.S. companies’ usage of trade finance has increased in every major foreign market, suggesting that big companies here are putting international expansion plans into motion.
Following a period of de-concentration in the competitive landscape of trade finance providers in Asia, the leading providers on average lost a few points of market penetration, as a long tail of local and emerging regional banks picked up...
In Asia and Europe, market fragmentation continues to be relatively high while the top 5 banks in the U.S. are (re)gaining penetration, approaching 50% at the expense of smaller players.
Total compensation increased across most industries when looking at year-on-year average salaries and bonuses, particularly in Industrials and Information Technology. However, some industries, such as Consumer Discretionary and Materials, did not...
With the exception of Natural Resources and Financials companies, most industries experienced a drop in the average number of investment banking relationships.
Non-bank financials allocated 44% of their credit related fees and interest to their primary bank as compared to the average allocation of 27%.  Consumer, Services and Insurance companies allocated one third to their primary bank while...

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