08/30/2015
McFarlane accelerates Barclays’ European selldown
Barclays’ Portuguese unit is the latest to be sold off, but its remaining European businesses may be trickier to shift
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08/28/2015
Sands Turns to Bookselling After Standard Chartered Exit
Sands will be a silent partner in the venture and “will not be working behind the till,” Tobin, who has won awards for her work including the novel ‘Bone House
08/24/2015
IMF makes recommendations to Hungarian c.bank about new asset manager
The International Monetary Fund recommended Hungary to attract international professional investors to strengthen the credibility of the central bank’s asset management company MARK and to support both its strategy and governance structure.
08/24/2015
Scottish Investment Bank invests £66.5m and leverages record £99m
Scottish Enterprise has revealed that its investment arm, the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), invested £66.5m into 155 Scottish companies during 2014/15, leveraging a record private sector investment of £99m.
08/20/2015
Investment banks hiring M&A bankers in this hot sector
Malhotra joined the French bank in August as a managing director covering the oil and gas industry.
08/18/2015
H.I.G. Capital Acquires a Portfolio of 8 Retail Assets in Italy
This is our third transaction in Italy
08/18/2015
RBS reportedly to sell Russian assets
The FTSE 100 group will agree the terms of the sale with an undisclosed bank
08/10/2015
New Deutsche Bank CEO tasked with fixing firm’s legal troubles
Its decision-making was “inward-looking and bureaucratic.
08/06/2015
Deutsche Bank Fires Two Senior Trading Executives
Ben Solomon and Ashish Jain are no longer with the bank
08/06/2015
Deutsche Bank shakes up global equities business
Jonny Potter, previously the co-head of equity sales along with Derek Capanna, was named global head of the business
08/06/2015
Best Paying Banks For Associates In 2015 – Where You Want To Work
JP Morgan pays both the highest average salary at £94,000, and the highest average bonus of £61,500, meaning Associates take home a total of £155,500.
08/05/2015
Europe’s banks should look for a structurally coherent business mix
They were tentative, and they were so quiet as to be barely audible.
08/04/2015
How to use an MBA to get a job at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, or Morgan Stanley
It’s not as easy to ‘leverage’ an MBA and end up with a job in an investment bank as it was.
08/04/2015
Europe’s banks should look for a structurally coherent business mix
They were tentative, and they were so quiet as to be barely audible.
08/03/2015
Goldman falls out of list of top-10 European fund managers
The two fund companies have been replaced by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and Invesco, according to estimates for the first half of the year from Morningstar, the data provider.
08/03/2015
Ferrari partnership helps Spanish bank Santander secure top IPO role
Sponsorship helps Spanish lender secure top role in supercar brand's IPO
08/03/2015
‘Brexit’ will not happen: Wall Street chief exec says voters will opt to stay in Europe
Britain is unlikely to leave Europe despite fears the upcoming referendum will lead to a “Brexit”, according to the chief executive of one of Wall Street’s biggest banks.
08/03/2015
We have given the keys of the global banking business to the Americans, says John Hourican
As he steps down from his latest financial rescue act, the premier troubleshooter ponders his next move
08/03/2015
Bank of Cyprus aims to raise its global profile in London listing
The bank wants to use the float to increase its exposure to international investors
08/03/2015
The new top banking job you’ve never thought of. Redundancies everywhere
If you’ve been keeping up to date with investment banks’ second quarter results, you might be wishing you were working in M&A, or maybe rates and FX or equities trading.