Margaret Doyle
Margaret Doyle is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist, based in London. She writes about investment banking. She has been a journalist for over 14 years. She has written for The Daily Telegraph and The Economist and presented various radio programmes for the BBC. She began her career as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. She has an economics degree from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA from Harvard Business School, which she attended as a Fulbright scholar. She is a Conservative Member of Westminster City Council.
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Recent stories
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UBS rightly accelerates strategic shift
Just weeks into 2012, the Swiss bank is warning of a tricky Q1. New CEO Sergio Ermotti is cutting assets and jobs in the investment bank faster than expected, to re-orient UBS toward private banking. UBS has special challenges, but this augers ill for the industry all the same.
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Ackermann sings a pained Deutsche swansong
The German lender’s boss has built an investment banking powerhouse during his decade at the helm. But his last set of quarterly results are poor, the bank has a capital hole to fill and the long-term share price performance leaves little to write home about.
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Hoare Govett deal a boon to both buyer and seller
Jefferies is snapping up RBS’s corporate broker for a song. It could be a handy springboard for the U.S. firm to try to follow JPMorgan’s success using Cazenove to reach UK boardrooms. And it’s an important, if symbolic, first step in state-owned RBS’s investment-banking retreat.
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Swiss banking rocked to its core by tax row
- Ireland's bond swap shows how self help can work
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Ireland needs euro help for its banks
- Commerzbank bonus case is echo of a greedier era
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Bonus squeeze hurts investors more than bankers
- RBS has tough fight to put value in wholesale arm
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Goldman's first Islamic foray too clever by half

