Finance: Quotes of the month

“Of course, people will travel again. But I’m not sure many of us will be jumping on a plane to Frankfurt or Milan for just one meeting”

Viswas Raghavan, chief executive of EMEA and co-head of global investment banking at JPMorgan sees a future in the office.

“It’s not about punting, it’s not about positioning, it’s about making more of our money in the intermediation of flows and in financing”

Stephen Scherr, chief financial officer at Goldman says it’s all about balance-sheet velocity.

“I can tell you as the head of strategy that whenever we went through potential strategic partners, E*Trade and Eaton Vance were always at the top of the list”

Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer Jonathan Pruzan explains how the bank achieved its acquisition goals this year.

“We are now glimpsing what the future will look like – perhaps five years from now – when the financial world operates fully digitally”

Paco Ybarra, chief executive of ICG at Citi looks into his crystal ball.

“We have not leveraged our debt market franchise enough to deliver the equity product”

Jean-Francois Astier, global head of capital markets and M&A at Barclays, explains why the bank is finding investment banking is a hard nut to crack.