07/29/2015
Barclays chairman hails investment bank performance
The new executive chairman of Barclays has hailed a sharp improvement in interim results at its investment bank
Investment Banking
07/28/2015
Why did HSBC shut down bank accounts?
Last year international banking giant HSBC suddenly closed the bank accounts of several prominent British Muslims.
07/28/2015
Where Is Europe's JPMorgan?
The next challenger to JPMorgan Chase is much more likely to emerge from China than from either the U.K. or the euro zone.
07/24/2015
More reasons for Credit Suisse’s investment bankers to fear Tidjane Thiam
If you’re an investment banking employee at the Swiss bank, you have good reason to feel more afraid.
07/24/2015
Barclays’s Next CEO Should Be Investment Banker, Aberdeen Says
Barclays is among European banks expected to cut back debt trading as stricter capital rules make the business unsustainable.
07/24/2015
European Investment Bank approves €10 billion in infrastructure loans
Five of the new projects will be supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments
07/24/2015
GSAM and LGT pick up $700m of StanChart private equity assets
UK-based Standard Chartered has offloaded a $700 million portfolio of private equity investments to Goldman Sachs Asset Management and alternatives manager LGT Capital Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.
07/24/2015
Deutsche Bank and Leonteq announce new cooperation
Deutsche Bank and Leonteq announced a new cooperation for the origination and distribution of structured investment products.
07/23/2015
EU takes on Asia, BRIC infrastructure banks
Commission launches plan to boost infrastructure investment.
07/23/2015
MD versus analyst: The top 50 universities for investment banking
There’s a big difference between breaking into investment banking and making it in investment banking.
07/22/2015
One of the UK’s top former investment bankers to launch investment firm
The firm is based in Maidenhead, a suburb of London near Heathrow Airport. Del Missier declined to comment on potential backers, adding that the firm is in its “very early days".
07/22/2015
Why are all these juniors leaving HSBC’s IBD business?
It’s come to our attention that plenty of HSBC’s investment banking juniors have been leaving, often for large US investment banks.
07/22/2015
Barclays McFarlane Expected to Signal Aggressive Cuts, Citi Says
Barclays will announce earnings on July 29 along with a revised strategy for the investment bank, which lags behind profitability at the rest of the firm.
07/20/2015
Investment banks tread carefully after years of living dangerously
Stricter regulation and hefty penalties after 2008 financial meltdown forcing them to shift focus to less risky areas of banking
07/20/2015
The Willful Blindness Of Deutsche Bank's Management
But this is a particularly active form of negligence.
07/20/2015
Body of banker in death plunge lay undiscovered for 4 days
The body of a banker who plunged to his death from a mountain in the Lake District lay undiscovered for four days after hotel staff failed to notice he was missing, an inquest heard last week.
07/20/2015
Barclays is reportedly planning to cut more than 30,000 jobs
The paper said a potential candidate, who would replace Jenkins, is expected to eliminate jobs much faster and more deeply than the ousted boss.
07/17/2015
ABN, NAB reopen Swiss for international FIG
International financial new issue supply returned to the Swiss market this week after a lull of more than a month, as ABN Amro and National Australia Bank priced new seven year bonds
07/17/2015
Green Investment Bank privatisation presents a threat to UK low carbon economy
E3G's Nick Mabey argues the government's GIB privatisation plan will deal a serious blow to the low carbon investment landscape
07/15/2015
£50.1m of Green Investment Bank funs backing Halton projects
Funds pumped into wood burning power plant in Widnes and waste incinerator in Teeside powered by Halton and Merseyside rubbish