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The truth about Asian investment banking

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July 2001

Awards for excellence - UK



Best bank
Royal Bank of Scotland

Best debt house
Barclays Capital

Best equity house
UBS Warburg

Best M&A house
Citigroup/Schroder Salomon Smith Barney

When Royal Bank of Scotland succeeded in its audacious takeover bid for the larger NatWest last March, one fund manager told Euromoney that the UK's best-managed large bank had just bought the worst. Investors, analysts and customers sat back and waited to see how ruthless the new bosses would be in trying to turn around an underperforming franchise. Pretty ruthless, seems to be the answer. While the incoming bosses of Royal Bank of Scotland have at least acknowledged that the old NatWest had some under-appreciated strengths on the wholesale side, notably its treasury operation, elsewhere the bank has been cutting costs while growing revenues in a display of professional leadership that has analysts recalling the great strides forward Lloyds TSB made in the mid-1990s.

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