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Wall Street Banks Lose Ground in Europe as Tariffs Spook Clients | Stock Market News

Last updated: August 3, 2025 5:46 pm
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(Bloomberg) — As US President Donald Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric against trading partners in Europe — corporates across the continent are taking notice.

As a result, some companies have begun to diversify their banking relationships away from the giants of Wall Street, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s been a boon for Europe’s leading banks, which have been actively vying to win the extra business.

“Some players are saying that it’s better to go to European or French investment banks for advice on financing or mergers and acquisitions,” said Arnaud Petit, managing director of Edmond de Rothschild’s corporate finance business. Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing sees similar in potential clients’ requests for proposals: “It is happening every day with client wins and RFPs and new business that we put on.”

So far this year, roughly half of the euro bond deals from non-US companies did not involve any of the five biggest US banks, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s up five percentage points from a year earlier. 

For sterling bonds the gap has widened even further — Wall Street banks were shut out of just 47% of deals throughout all of last year. So far this year, though, they’ve been excluded from 64% of them. 

The emergence of the ability of a few European banks “to be able to offer competitive services and advice to clients” has created a desire among clients to switch, according to UBS Group AG Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti. “We believe we are well placed to continue to benefit from that diversification.” 

Even before Trump’s trade war kicked off in earnest, the biggest of the US banks warned that it was starting to see an impact. By April, JPMorgan Chase & Co. had already lost “a couple” of bond deals tied to the tariff uncertainty, with companies opting for local banks instead, Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Fox Business at the time. 

He warned that the tumult was “causing cumulative damage including huge anger at the United States.”

The latest example of a win for non-US banks came this week, when Zurich-based insurer Chubb Ltd. issued an offshore yuan-bond. It opted for Standard Chartered Plc to help take on the deal. 

The bank was told: “We want to bank with the regional champions, rather than just with global banks in general,” Standard Chartered Chief Financial Officer Diego de Giorgi said. “Because we think that you guys bring specific skills in a world that is fragmenting.”  

Chubb is not an exception. 

The effect is most pronounced in Asia, where economies are expected to be hard hit by the changing trade regimes and the re-routing of supply chains, said Ruchirangad Agarwal, head of corporate banking for Asia and the Middle East at the research firm Coalition Greenwich.  

“The willingness of companies in Asia to change their transaction bank is currently at a high: a third of them plan to issue a new RFP within the next 12 months,” Agarwal said. 

Already, US lenders’ market share in financing trade for Chinese companies has dropped in recent years – from 12% in 2017 to about 7% share now, he added. 

“We expect to see heightened uncertainty and customer churn at US banks as large corporates take an active risk management stance on FX, interest rates, counterparty risk, geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions,” said Martin Smith, head of markets analysis at East & Partners. 

BNP Paribas SA, meanwhile, has gained more share than any other player in Asia, Smith said. 

“There are clearly strategic opportunities in the tectonic shifts that the world has been seeing in recent months” Societe Generale SA CEO’s Slawomir Krupa said of companies looking to shift toward European banking partners. “The logic behind this form of risk diversification has become more apparent for companies.”

–With assistance from Harry Wilson, Claudia Cohen and Noele Illien.

More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com



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