Citi fired almost no senior bankers, but the one who left is having fun

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Following the early stages of Jane Fraser's Bora Bora reorganisation,Financial News today published a list of the next rung down of Citi managing directors who report to its new sole EMEA head of investment banking, Jens Welter. As with theNovember revelation of the senior appointments at Welter's level, it's all a bit surprising.

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Although Citi aims to take out5,000 people as it simplifies its management structure and reduces management layers from 13 to eight, in investment banking at least almost no one seems to be leaving. Instead, and as when Citi tackled the levels above last year, it's mostly just moving people into new roles. 

For example, Barry Weir and Robin Rousseau, who were previously co-heads of M&A for EMEA are both still on the list, but Weir is now head of M&A for the UKand the Middle East and Africa and Rousseau is the head of M&A for Europe. David Dubin, who was previously the global head of infastructure finance, is now head of EMEA instead and has been transplanted into the investment banking division.

Various expensive people who might have been sent on their way have simply become chairmen orvice chairmen instead, a role which sounds fancy but mostly involves schmoozing clients and liberates the holder from the irritations of managing a team. Linos Lekkas and Patrick Frowein, who were promoted as co-heads of the banking,capital markets and advisory unit in Europe (excluding France, Italy and Ireland) just four months ago, have got new jobs: Lekkas is a vice chairman; Frowein is head of Europe investment banking. Will Weaver, who was head of EMEA debt capital markets, is reincarnated as a vice chairman too.

Despite Fraser's explicit dislike of