Bill Winters is pretty bullish and certainly excited about his return to the front line of the financial markets, at the helm of a new asset management and advisory firm with a difference.

The former co-chief executive of JP Morgan's investment bank, voted the most influential person in the European capital markets in our FN100 list the summer before his shock departure from the US bank in late 2009, has been linked with senior roles at other banks on a regular basis since.