Keith Mullin
Contributor at Freelance
Contributor at The Asset Magazine
Global investment banking and capital markets thought leader, consultant, writer,commentator and analyst working under the KM Capital Markets umbrella
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6 days ago |
theasset.com | Keith Mullin
"Government completes exit from NatWest," screamed the headline in a British government press release on May 30th. "Final share sale ends nearly 17 years of public ownership." It was more of a symbolic moment than anything else because it bookended a sorry episode that began with the bank's dramatic emergency state bailout at the time of the Global Financial Crisis ( GFC ). But while NatWest has returned to private hands, the wreckage of those crisis years is still visible.
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1 week ago |
theasset.com | Keith Mullin
I've been thinking a lot about infrastructure recently, in particular who owns it. As I wrote recently in a comment on this platform about ( predominantly foreign ) UK airport ownership, the notion of profit-seeking private institutional investors owning public infrastructure and siphoning off huge amounts of capital from the realm of the public has always been abhorrent in the eyes of many. As a new era of economic protectionism rears its head, that really doesn't fit the model.
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2 weeks ago |
theasset.com | Keith Mullin
"The International Swaps and Derivatives Association ( ISDA ) should ditch its Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee ( DC ) and hire independents. Surely having a group of insiders make decisions to trigger or not trigger credit default swaps ( CDS ) is poor industry governance. It's all about perception. Surely it should always be up to a panel of independent experts to decide these matters and remove the risk of accusations of bias.
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1 month ago |
theasset.com | Keith Mullin
Browsing the leading US banks' recently published proxy statements and leading European banks' annual reports, I scanned the sections on competitors to see which each firm lists as peers to see if anything had materially changed. It hadn't. But watch that space. The competitor lists in those documents are compiled mainly for purposes of tracking industry-wide compensation, executive exit risk and other factors.
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1 month ago |
theasset.com | Keith Mullin
Perusing US equity underwriting and sales and trading earnings data for the first quarter recently, I was once again struck by the extent to which the underwriting business is becoming - or in truth has already become, certainly in the case of initial public offerings ( IPOs ) - a rounding error in the grand scheme of equity investment banking, that is, compared with equity sales and trading. ( European numbers tend to follow the same pattern so there are no grand expectations here.
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