Favorites to be next UBS IB Head
Curious on everyone’s thoughts are who should be the next head of UBs IB, insider? Outsider? Time to drop some names:
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WTF what’s wrong with Marco? I think he’s great
Forgone conclusion change is coming. I’d say Ros has the best shot
Ros is a little too old unless it is a transition leadership for a couple years while the search committee looks for who is next
You want to do a “Mock New UBS IB Head Search Committee??” It’s time for a hobby brother!!
mark Shafir would be my vote
Bring back Christian Meissner from CS, would make a lot of sense
Nobody knows. MV will be gone because he has very clearly failed; the only real question about it is when. The initial timeline he gave was Summer 2026, but a year out, it's very clearly looking like he's nowhere near his goal. Would expect him to be gone EoY probably. As for replacement, nobody can predict that. People internally at Barcalys in 2023 thought MV would get It, and look how that turned out. My 2 cents: expecting an outside though, given how much of a failure current leadership has been. Impossible to know exactly who.
Hernan Cristerna Head of JPM M&A a solid choice
Jeff Raich snubbed of the title of Moelis CEO could be looking for his next gig
lol, he is not going to go from being letdown about not getting the Moelis CEO job, to then take a role as head of americas IB for middling swiss bank that has 10mm of tech revenue over the last 3 years and is openly mocked by other banks. get real
Nahh for head of all IB which Marco is
Dude’s retired giving out theories
Hopefully we hire another ex Barclays guy or gal as CEO. What has been the issue at UBS in the Americas? Simple: not enough Barclays. Hear me out—every time UBS pitched, the ghost of Barclays-blue swagger was missing, and clients smelled the Swiss neutrality like cold fondue. Want league-table glory? Inject Barclays antibodies: Barclays FIG vets, Barclays LevFin cowboys, Barclays interns who do push-ups on the pitchbook printer. Paint the walls Barclays, rename the elevators “Barclays-vators,” replace the UBS logo with “UB-Barclays-S.” Then crown an ex-Barclays overlord as IB czar—someone who yells “Barclays!” instead of “good morning” and schedules 3 a.m. Barclays bootcamps where bankers pledge allegiance to Barclay’s. Compliance will sweat, Zurich will faint, but mandates will rain like Barclays bonuses. UBS doesn’t need more of the same—it needs Barclays, Barclays, Barclays, Barclays.
Umm.. isn’t that what they pretty much did?
Just like communism, a real Barclays takeover has never been tried…
Have heard about this ongoing UBS Barclays controversy with UBS hiring a ton of ex Barclays guys after CS merger but confused as to what’s driving it? Is Barclays, and as an extent the talent there really seen as “elite”or even materially better on average compared to UBS at that point ? I’ve been under the impression Barclays is tier 1.5/2 BB compared to the obvious tier 1 JPM, MS, GS
Google Apartheid
Michael Klein is the best UBS could ever get
Imagine an alternate timeline when they had Michael Klein, Harold Bogle, and the rest of the CS heavy hitters.
Understandable that UBS would scale back a bit to derisk after the merger but they couldn't keep the rainmakers. Not helpful also that they're really stingy on IG loans which made it hard for us in capital intensive sectors
This is always what has confused me about UBS, UBS doesn't do any IG loans but is very willing to do what are to say nicely are risky HY deals for select sponsors at 100% commitment. It's almost as if the bank doesn't care about anything except sponsors' deal flow and HY debt issuances, which has always been frustrating to deal with.
Andrea Orcel, Italian for Italian. Fair is fair
He’s long gone by now
Im hoping for Jes Staley. its perfect. ex barclays CEO (why not totally LEAN IN on the barclays takeover). Epstein connections, disgraced from social circles...hes perfect for this bank
Yep Barclays leadership could lean into being distasteful by being even more distasteful
More Barclays more problems
Head of M&A at Goldman Sachs is Stephan Feldgoise would be solid
Why would a guy who is making $20mn a year at the best bank leave to fire Barclays trash and have no Money to hire new talent
Louis Litt
Realistically just give it to Javier. At least he is well respected unlike the barclays people
I’d say Leon Sandcastle is the most qualified and favorite at this point
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