Best Global investment bank 2011: Barclays Capital muscles into investment banking big league

Already a powerhouse in FICC, Barclays Capital is muscling its way into the upper echelons of global M&A advisory and equity capital markets. Its three-year investment programme to build global franchises on the back of Lehman’s US rump is nearly done. The firm’s bosses promise shareholders that they are about to reap the dividends and that revenues and income will flow in. The handful of leading global investment banks have a new competitor to deal with.

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SAM DEAN JOINED Barclays Capital as co-head of global equity capital markets almost two years ago to the day that he sits down with Euromoney to discuss the firm’s progress in building the business. “You have to remember that when I arrived, cash equity trading hadn’t started, there was no ECM team, and much of the banking platform had still to be hired.

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