12/15/2013
VTB Capital International has missed its profitability targets for the past five years, Atanas Bostandjiev wrote in a Nov. 15 memo to Yuri Soloviev, deputy chief executive officer of parent VTB Group.
12/11/2013
The UK’s deal-making outstrips its more robust European peers with Germany recording just six M&A deals and France and the Netherlands reporting just seven deals in 2013, according to research by Cass Business School and professional services fi
12/10/2013
Risk and compliance professionals flee investment banking for the “buy-side dream”
A migration of experienced talent from investment banking into asset management could result from changes in the regulatory environment according to research carried out by Charles Cooper, financial services risk consultant at Twenty Recruitment.
12/10/2013
Several major U.S. and European banks including Bank of America and Switzerland's UBS have started shedding their Chinese holdings for a variety of regulatory and business reasons.
12/03/2013
Dutch-owned bank hires Aldermore's George Ashworth to go head-to-head with GE and Lombard
12/01/2013
A much more positive tone is revealed in the fifth Outlook for Investment Banking Services
12/01/2013
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
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
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
BNP Paribas operates one of the largest retail bank networks in the world.
11/27/2013
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
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
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