11/26/2013
Messages between traders in a commodities chat room last week ranged from the dating habits of Kim Kardashian’s mother to West African pirates plundering oil and gas reserves to a riddle.
11/25/2013
London Bank Plans African Office
Johannesburg Exotix Ltd., the London-based investment bank boosting its African equities team, plans to open its first office on the continent in the next six months
11/25/2013
Paris Orleans reported lower first-half revenue and net profit, citing a weak merger-and-acquisition market as well as impairment charges related to its investment in Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild.
11/23/2013
JP Morgan, the US investment bank, hired Buckingham Palace for a dinner hosted by the Duke of York, it was claimed.
11/21/2013
His death highlighted concerns about interns working excessive hours and even through the night after newspaper reports suggested that Erhardt had worked for 72 hours without sleep before he died.
11/20/2013
McKinsey fears that investment banks' attempts to cut costs have so far been too ineffective and that firms must move to reduce their staff head count.
11/17/2013
RBS said it was in talks with a single third party over the deal but that no agreement had been reached
11/16/2013
Rabobank and Danske both announced they were abandoning Ireland in recent months
11/14/2013
Shipping has weighed heavily on its financiers, with the industry facing one of its worst downturns in decades.
11/12/2013
Russian investment bank VTB Capital plans to sell its entire 9 percent stake in software developer Luxoft through a secondary share sale that could raise up to $87.5 million
11/10/2013
JP Morgan and HSBC topped the list of the world's top 29 banks that must hold extra capital from 2016 because of their size and reach
11/07/2013
UBS has repurchased a troubled asset fund handed over to Switzerland's central bank in the midst of the financial crisis, marking a symbolic end to state support for the country's biggest lender.
11/06/2013
Societe Generale has entered into exclusive negotiations with Credit Agricole to acquire the additional 50% stake in Newedge,
11/06/2013
As part of the agreement, Valartis senior portfolio manager Tim McCarthy and a team of analysts will move to the VTB unit, part of Russia’s second-largest lender
11/06/2013
Despite the bank's strength back home, only 10 per cent of its business in Asia is linked to the bank's UK operations
11/03/2013
In July BNP Paribas Securities Services signed the acquisition of the “Depotbank” business of Commerzbank.
10/30/2013
The cabinet estimates a flotation could raise €15bn
10/28/2013
European banks are set to echo the grim performance shown by Wall Street's big banks in fixed income, where revenues - which account for about half of total investment bank income - were down about 15 percent on average from a year ago.
10/27/2013
Investment banks saw a slowdown in fixed-income trading, a key portion of their earnings, as investors waited to see whether the Federal Reserve will begin reducing bond purchases.
10/25/2013
The Lords will discuss the final stages of the plans next month, with the regulations expected to come into force in 2018 or 2019