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...One drag on the financial results was a €233mn writedown on the book value of London-based boutique investment bank Numis that Deutsche bought late last year for £410mn....
...Goldman Sachs banker Troy Broderick has left his role as chief operating officer of its M&A business just a few weeks after landing the job to join boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners, Bloomberg...
...In among the bric-à-brac and cheese stalls of Vienna’s Naschmarkt sits an unexpected boutique. Nomade Moderne is a modern-day milliner whose bespoke hats have a bohemian charm....
...Given all that has been on Deutsche boss Christian Sewing’s plate lately, Schenck is likely happy to be headed towards greener pastures....
...He became known for his 3D artworks of high-fashion boutiques and gradually developed a side business in luxe miniatures, from infinity pools to handbags and hotel luggage racks....
...Boutique investment firm Moelis seems to think so....
...Ruby’s business figures are under wraps: the brand has a number of wholesalers, mostly “small single-door boutiques who act like galleries,” Ruby says....
...Other potential partners include Amundi, which is close to completing the integration of the €3.5bn acquisition of Italy’s Pioneer, and multi-boutiques Natixis Investment Managers and Generali....
...Witness the Chanel videos of “les petites mains” sewing couture, just as they have for 200 years. Machine-made clothes cannot partake in that romance, but direct-to-consumer likes transparency....
...This unique material, which has been continuously researched since 1988, is pleated after sewing to create a lighter fabric that is easy to move in....
...It attracted the likes of GTE and Singer Sewing Machines, among others....
...Mr Ruane was Deutsche’s head of corporate M&A and part of CEO Christian Sewing’s inner circle....
...Is it to be a German boutique, with a bit of domestic retail banking tacked on? That is part of the story....
...Although Deutsche is the last big investment bank to have its US headquarters on Wall Street, the restructuring by chief executive Christian Sewing also signalled a retreat from the bank’s long-held ambitions...
...Dietrich Becker, a London-based partner of Perella Weinberg, the advisory and asset management boutique, nonetheless said he was still convinced that “Christian is the right man for the job [of turning around...
...His mother gave him the sewing machine when he was 13. Ruby used it to create his own clothes and mark himself out even more so as unusual....
...Ritchie, who was weakened by a large protest vote against him at last week’s annual meeting, is worried by the radical cuts to his business proposed by group chief executive Christian Sewing....
...A quick glimpse at the events schedule listed a sewing workshop at the weekend. Too benign?...
...Instead, his counterpart at crosstown rival Deutsche Bank, Christian Sewing (right), had to break the news to him that it wasn’t viable to proceed with a takeover of Commerzbank....
...Christian Sewing, the chief executive who was installed last year to turn around the bank’s performance, has said he intends to increase revenue from stable sources, one of which is fund management....
...At Deutsche, Sewing remains in the hot seat....
...In team sewing, each group has a target, and faster, more skilled workers can help slower ones along....
...People in China used to want three “big things”: a watch, bicycle and sewing machine; nowadays it’s to be “30, single, and happy”....
...In the parlour of his home, with its gas lamps and patterned wallpaper, Harry Levine employed a handful of sewing machine operators and pressers....
...MBA from Columbia Business School, Mario Hernández Pérez returned to Bogotá in 2006 to join Marroquinera, the luxury leather manufacturer and fashion retailer that his father started in 1978 with three sewing...
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