, whose tenure as chairman of ended on Wednesday, said he anticipates the lender will be involved in big deals in a few years. “The restructuring is not fully over, I think it’s going to take a couple of years,” Bini Smaghi told Bloomberg Television when asked at what point the French lender would start thinking about substantial acquisitions. “But the environment is changing, the valuation of banks has changed. So shareholders are starting to ask, ‘What’s next?