01/10/2014
UBS said in October its target to reach a 15 percent return on equity in 2015 will be delayed by at least one year after the Swiss regulator requested the Zurich-based bank hold more capital for litigation risks.
01/10/2014
As the City’s M&A activity is expected to spring into life this year, who are London’s top deal makers by value?
01/09/2014
Much has been made in the press about the tax status of these migrants – so what’s the truth?
01/07/2014
The initial investment contract with FIMBank is in line with the NLB's strategic plan to offload non-strategic investments
01/03/2014
The largest U.S. banks reported their figures for 2012 as recently as this week under European disclosure rules that are part of a regulatory push to alter pay practices blamed for contributing to the 2008 financial crisis.
01/02/2014
Investment banks secured more fees from German clients in 2013 than in any year since 2008, as fees paid across the wider continental European region also increased significantly on previous years.
01/01/2014
Russian state-owned Rosneft has announced plans to acquire Morgan Stanley’s unit for storing, trading and transporting oil products.
12/30/2013
Investment bank UBS chooses its top picks for takeovers in 2014
12/30/2013
"It has very high priority for Atos," an anonymous source with knowledge on Atos' plan told Borsen.
12/22/2013
A handful of executives at the taxpayer bank’s markets division could see their monthly wage almost double to compensate for the new rules, according to sources.
12/19/2013
The sale of the unit, called Corporate Employee Financial Services International, is expected to close in 2014
12/19/2013
It’s 20 minutes before 4 p.m. in London and currency traders’ screens are blinking red and green.
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.