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Bank profiles

13 September 2007

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Simply the best

Morgan Stanley has done it again. Not only has the bank topped the unweighted and weighted by importance to counterparty categories again this year. The bank had a clear sweep of the service categories, winning every single one of them. One word describes this performance – dominant. The only category they did not win was the weighted by client's size category, losing that one to the new number two in the unweighted rankings, UBS. But Morgan did come second. But this year has by no means been an easy one for the bank. Like a quality football club with many stars, Morgan has felt some loss of staff to other brokers.

The bank has also recently undergone a restructure within its prime brokerage operations and as a result, its global head of international securities lending, Martin Zapico has left the bank. Charlotte Wall, international securities lending trading, Morgan...


 

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