About the author


Keith Mullin is Editor-in-Chief of the IFR group of specialist magazines and briefings, websites, real-time news services and conferences. This includes International Financing Review (IFR) – acknowledged by market participants as the world’s leading source of capital markets intelligence – and specialist magazines and news services covering securitisation, M&A and infrastructure finance.
 
An avid watcher of the investment banking industry, Keith has been a journalist, editor, and market commentator for 25 years specialising in a range of professional market segments, including debt, equity and loan capital markets, securitisation, financial derivatives, leveraged finance, emerging markets and others.
 
He regularly chairs and speaks at conferences around the world and in 2006 he wrote a hard-hitting analysis of the investment banking industry – "Global Investment Banks: Trends, Strategies and Performance" – which was a definitive appraisal of the challenges facing the industry.