12/01/2013
2014 Outlook For Investment Banking
A much more positive tone is revealed in the fifth Outlook for Investment Banking Services
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12/01/2013
Who Are the Brightest Young Stars in European Investment Banking?
After a prolonged period of redundancies, restructurings and retrenchment, as investment banks have begun to see a revival in the capital markets
12/01/2013
Investment Trust 'Master' Eyes Emerging Markets
Peter Walls, the Citywire AA-rated fund manager of Unicorn Mastertrust, which invests in investment trusts, has taken tentative steps into emerging markets.
11/27/2013
No Gold Bars But Higher Salaries for London Bankers with Bonus Cap
In the 1990s, London-based investment banks rewarded top employees with gold bars, fine wine and oriental carpets to dent the impact of higher payroll taxes.
11/27/2013
Key Facts About BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas operates one of the largest retail bank networks in the world.
11/27/2013
Credit Suisse Sees Sovereign-Debt Growth as Rates Unit Shrinks
The second-biggest Swiss bank is a market maker for sovereign debt in nine European nations, including Germany and the U.K., and has no plans to cut back in those markets, London-based Laurent Curtat said in a phone interview yesterday.
11/26/2013
UBS Investment Bank Bans Use of Multi-Bank, Social Chat Rooms
Regulators have targeted traders’ electronic messages, using them as evidence of wrongdoing in their investigations into the manipulation of benchmark interest rates and foreign- exchange markets.
11/26/2013
Trader Messages Scrutinized as UBS Bans Chats Among Firms
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
Rothschild parent Paris Orleans posts lower sales, net profit
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
Buckingham Palace 'hired out' for bank dinner
JP Morgan, the US investment bank, hired Buckingham Palace for a dinner hosted by the Duke of York, it was claimed.
11/21/2013
Bank of America intern died of natural causes - inquest
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
Investment Banks Must Fire Thousands To Survive - McKinsey
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 in talks over investment bank
RBS said it was in talks with a single third party over the deal but that no agreement had been reached
11/16/2013
Good news for bankers but it won't help the humble customer
Rabobank and Danske both announced they were abandoning Ireland in recent months
11/14/2013
RBS to park billions in shipping loans at 'bad bank' -sources
Shipping has weighed heavily on its financiers, with the industry facing one of its worst downturns in decades.
11/12/2013
VTB Capital to exit Luxoft through share offering
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
HSBC, JPMorgan top global banks capital surcharge list
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 Pulls Away From State
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
SocGen Said to Lift Newedge Stake in Swap With Agricole
Societe Generale has entered into exclusive negotiations with Credit Agricole to acquire the additional 50% stake in Newedge,