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- SEC's Attempts to Institute Financial Reform Could Also Have a Downside
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: The financial services industry is about to get its first attempt at genuine reform aimed at protecting consumers and retail investors, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted today for the first time on whether to ban flash-trading and whether ratings agencies...
- External links 2009-09-17
- The Past Week's Bank and Thrift Data Undermine Obama's Regulatory Plans
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: What’s the difference between a thrift and a bank, other than that the former has a number of dangerous regulatory loopholes it can jump through whenever it pleases and a lax regulator? That was the Obama Administration’s rhetorical question to bankers and...
- External links 2009-08-30
- BBVA's Acquisition of Guaranty May Not Be as Easy as It Looks
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Texas-based Guaranty Financial GFG may provide Spanish giant BBVA with a useful entry point to service multiple Hispanic customers in the U.S. But it’s far from fitting like one of the snuggles you see advertised on CNBC. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-08-20
- FDIC's Latest Proposal Will Simply Help Big Banks Engineer Healthy Balance-Sheets
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: On the surface, it seems quite sensible that banks ought to prepay Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) premiums through 2012 in order to give the regulator some much-needed cash. A total 95 bank failures this year has left FDIC-coffers dry, to the...
- External links 2009-09-30
- CIT Group Announces More 'Restructuring', But Bankruptcy Outcome Still Unclear
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Throughout the week, a burning question has been on the lips of investors, bankers and business owners alike: “Is CIT filing for Chapter 11?” Despite a flurry of announcements Friday, no one is that much wiser. CIT Group CIT has been slowly...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Blackstone Group - Awash in Hilton Debt - Is Getting Back to Basics
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: After a solid year in which its valuation more than doubled, private equity giant Blackstone Group BX has been taking a beating in recent weeks. Blackstone’s huge position in Hilton Hotels HLT has saddled it with a chunk of hard-to-manage debt: so...
- External links 2009-10-29
- CIT's Failure Could Threaten Financial Sector's Overall Recovery
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Just as the financial services industry seems to have made it past the worst of the economic meltdown, one small lender now threatens to reverse that trend. CIT Group CIT, a lender to small and medium sized businesses, appears to be on the brink...
- External links 2009-10-01
- BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors: Why the Market Loves This Deal
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: In an industry under fire for lousy management practices, dodgy accounting, and doing deals which don’t make long-term financial sense, BlackRock’s BLK potential acquisition of Barclays Global Investors BCS stands out as having gained the market mob’s approval. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-06-16
- Britain Facing Sterling Currency Crisis
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: A leadership crisis, potential ratings downgrade and dire economic conditions in the U.K. may lead to a currency crisis in the British pound. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-06-08
- This Week's Freddie Mac Bond Sale May Buoy Markets
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: This story originally appeared on Daniel M. Harrison’s Finance blog at BNET Industries on May 24, 2009. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-05-26
- Financial Institutions Consider IPO Spinoffs
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: This story was originally published on Daniel M. Harrison’s Finance blog at BNET Industries on May 13, 2009. Public listings, corporate restructurings and subsidiary spin-offs are the bread and butter of the investment banking industry. In the aftermath of the credit crisis,...
- External links 2009-05-14
- Hedge Fund Start-Ups: Major Industry Players Rising from the Ashes
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: This story was originally published on Daniel M. Harrison’s Finance blog at BNET Industries on May 1, 2009. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-05-04
- Morgan Stanley Finding Alternative Methods to Circumvent Treasury Oversight
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: . Investment bankers have never been famous for their nonconformist ways. But Morgan Stanley MS is increasingly beginning to look like a very different species to its industry rivals. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-04-27
- How E*Trade is Trying to Survive in the TARP Era
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: E*Trade ETFC may end up the only major financial services company to make it through the financial crisis without any help from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). But that won’t be from a lack of trying. In the company’s latest...
- External links 2009-06-21
- Why This Week Has Been the Year's Best for Banks
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: This week is shaping up to be one of the most significant this year for the long-term outlook of the banking industry — and the news is way more positive than anyone could have hoped. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-07-14
- Next Round of Stimulus Must Be Directed at Regional Banks
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Another round of bank deleveraging is looking more likely by the day. But this time, it will be harder to convince U.S. taxpayers of the merits of a second fiscal stimulus to bail out the big banks. The beginning of the July...
- External links 2009-07-09
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- It's Hard to Get Out from Under that TARP
- CNBC commentator Jim Cramer got on his high-horse today about the insurers, Hartford Financial Services Group and Lincoln National, which took federal bailout money known as TARP. Cramer has a point, although, as BNET colleague Daniel Harrison points out, he does tend to go over the top....
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Is Going Green The Future Of Commercial Banking?
- In the post-subprime world, where government life support for financial institutions is heading into the trillions of dollars, it is a hard job these days to find much that qualifies for genuinely innovative activity in the industry (aside, perhaps, from ethically-dubious products such as life insurance backed securities). ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
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