WALL STREET'S WOULD-BE KING

摘要

Bob Diamond is no quitter. The American-born bond trader took a job as head of global markets at Barclays's floundering investment banking arm, BZW, back in 1996. Barely a year later the British bank sold BZW'srnequity and corporate finance business to rival Credit Suisse First Boston for a pittance. Equity markets were soaring at the time, and the City of London was booming, but Barclays didn't have the stomach - or the capital-to compete in the investment banking business against the giants of Wall Street and continental Europe.