Keith Mullin, KM Capital Markets: There’s a lot of stigma attached to deals that don’t work. That’s partially down to bankers’ competitive spirits running away with them. But is the stigma attached to a deal that doesn’t work overdone, and should we conclude that it’s quite reasonable to have deals that don’t work?   Luis Vaz Pinto, SG CIB: There’s definitely something about the way deals get done in Europe versus the US. It’s a truism that when you get to the end of the process in Europe and th

Keith Mullin, KM Capital Markets: This year we’ve seen bouts of volatility in equities and there’s been talk not just of continued volatility but of market corrections, bubbles bursting and a tech sell-off. But despite the negative nuances, equity markets have tended to snap back relatively quickly, suggesting a degree of resilience to the news flow where pullbacks are invariably seen as opportunities to lay back in again. I wanted to talk about the general macro environment to kick off and we’l

Craig Coben Bank of America Merrill Lynch Craig Coben has been vice-chairman of global capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch since March 2018, focusing on deepening the bank’s relationships with major clients. Prior to this, he had been global head of equity capital markets since mid-2014, and before that ran the EMEA ECM team. Before joining BAML in 2009, Coben spent eight-and-a-half years in ECM at Deutsche Bank, and started his career at law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.   Suneel H