The case focuses on the ill-fated relationship between the LIA, Libya’s new sovereign wealth fund, and Goldman Sachs, and the ultimately disastrous $1.2 billion derivatives (elephant) trades the LIA entered into in early 2008 on Goldman’s advice. The analysis deals with basic derivative instruments, terminology and concepts (e.g., leverage, counterparty risk) as well as valuation issues both intui

This case deals with efforts by HSBC, one of the two largest banks in the world by market capitalization, to develop a wholesale banking franchise that can effectively challenge those of major universal bank competitors such as Citigroup, as well as dominant “monoline” firms such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

This case focuses on Citigroup’s attempt to bolster its European presence by acquiring the investment banking business of Schroders PLC in 2000, following a conclusion on the part of key Schroders shareholders that the future of an independent Europe-based investment bank was limited.

The director of the Corporate Finance division of Bank Waal en IJssel (WIJ), the Dutch subsidiary of an international banking conglomerate, was interested in identifying synergies between the bank's financing and advisory activities.