Haitong sets out its stall after BESI buy

The investment banking arm of Banco Espírito Santo’s search for an investor had begun long before the shenanigans at its parent bank began to come to the surface in the summer of 2014, according to Francisco Cary, BESI’s deputy CEO and chief financial officer.

“In late 2013 we felt that the challenges our parent bank was facing meant that we would need to find an investor who would subscribe to a capital increase which would help us to continue with the international development of our business,” he explains. “Our focus from the start was on investors in the Middle East and Asia, because we felt we could give them access to business opportunities in markets where they had limited direct exposure.

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