01/17/2018
SocGen faces loss of €2.2bn tax credit from rogue trading scandal
Société Générale is France’s third-largest bank by market value
Investment Banking
01/16/2018
Germany's Continental hires JP Morgan for potential break-up
Continental said last week that it was in talks about a possible structural overhaul, confirming media reports, and pledged to flesh out its plans within six months.
01/16/2018
Investment bank Houlihan Lokey buys Quayle Munro to build data and analytics group
Quayle Munro was founded in 1983 and is based in London with a team of 40 financial professionals.
01/16/2018
ABN AMRO Press Release: Update on fourth quarter results
Update on fourth quarter results
01/15/2018
BNP Paribas seizes Brexit opportunity to boost UK operation
Ambition to advise more British companies comes amid hiring spree at French bank
01/15/2018
Italy's largest bank to invest €5 billion into the nation's tourism sector
Italy’s tourism sector is worth €185 billion a year
01/15/2018
JFD Brokers acquires control of German investment bank ACON
The move to acquire ACON will see JFD diversify away from online brokerage into complementary areas such as asset management and capital raising.
01/11/2018
SocGen to book $450m charge in the fourth quarter
SocGen added that from 2018, “the decrease of the federal tax rate will have a favourable impact on the profitability of group operations in the US”.
01/08/2018
Spanish Bank Eyes Post-Brexit HQ in London
Alantra Partners bucks trend of firms pulling back from U.K.
01/08/2018
Deutsche Bank hiked salaries for its VPs in London
The latest rises follow significant rises in VP pay at Deutsche in London in March 2016, when some VPs at the German bank saw their salaries go from £100k to £140k.
01/08/2018
Cerberus sees room in Germany for Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank-Handelsblatt
Deutsche Bank on Friday said it would report its third consecutive annual loss for 2017
01/07/2018
Deutsche Bank to post third consecutive annual loss
Revenue at bond-trading unit seen dropping 22% in fourth quarter
01/04/2018
Why Investment Bankers Work for Free
Too bad this gift economy is limited to the elites.
01/04/2018
HSBC opens China desk in Poland to further tap Belt and Road opportunities
The new service in the Polish capital Warsaw brings the number of HSBC's China Desks to 24 globally.
01/04/2018
Investment banking fees at record high in 2017 - Thomson Reuters data
Fees for bonds beat mergers and acquisitions as the number one product, rising almost 15 percent to $31 billion.
01/04/2018
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs come top of banker pay league in Britain
The Wall Street banks’ higher pay packages show how they have bounced back more quickly from the financial crisis than their peers in Britain
01/04/2018
Investment banking masterminds of City's biggest takeovers pocket £63m in 2017
The bank's other 13 employees took home £8.9million in wages, or an average of £685,000 each.
01/03/2018
JPMorgan leads again in Europe, as equity deals drive a revenue rise
Investment banking fees rose in 2017, with a jump in equity-capital-markets revenues making up for an M&A slump
01/02/2018
Green investors and bailout lawyer handed New Year’s honours
Former executives at the UK's Green Investment Bank and founder of Jupiter Ecology Fund named in annual roll-call
01/02/2018
Europe’s bank bosses see need for consolidation in sector
Cross-border deals to return only when eurozone banking union is complete, says a CEO