LONDON: Macquarie Group’s sudden exit from European and US equity trading may just be the start of a large-scale retreat from the once-thriving business, as all but the biggest global banks struggle to make it pay.
The cash equities business – servicing investors to buy and sell shares – is going through a shakeout as falling trade volumes and costly regulations bite.
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