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- Brokerages Complain of "bullying" Banks
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Three of London's best-known brokerages have accused Britain's bailed-out banks of "bullying" debt-burdened corporate clients into using their investment banking services, skewing already tough competition.The chief executives of Panmure Gordon, Numis Securities and Evolution Securities said in a joint letter to Paul Myners, Britain's financial services...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein Dies at 61
- By Steve EderNEW YORK (Reuters) - Lazard Ltd Chief Executive Bruce Wasserstein, a legendary dealmaker for more than 30 years, has died, ending an era at one of Wall Street's best-known investment banks.The company had announced on Sunday that Wasserstein, 61, had been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat. It called...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein Dies
- By Steve EderNEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Lazard Chief Executive Bruce Wasserstein, a legendary dealmaker for more than 30 years, has died, ending an era at one of Wall Street's best-known investment banks.The company had announced on Sunday that Wasserstein, 61, had been hospitalised for an irregular heartbeat. It called...
- News items 2009-10-14
- RHJ Buys Kleinwort Benson
- FRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - Commerzbank CBKG is selling wealth management unit Kleinwort Benson to RHJ International RHJI for 225 million sterling in cash, the companies said on Thursday.The sale to RHJ, the Brussels-listed investment group that failed in its bid to buy GM's GM European car unit Opel last month,...
- News items 2009-10-15
- BofA Posts $1 Billion Loss on Consumer Credit Woes
- By Joe RauchCHARLOTTE (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp posted a wider-than-expected third-quarter loss as improvement in its Merrill Lynch investment banking unit failed to offset consumer credit woes, sending its shares down 4.5 percent .The results underlined how the nation's largest bank, which has received two taxpayer bailouts totaling...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Credit Suisse Tops Q3 Forecasts
- By Lisa JuccaZURICH (Reuters UK) - Credit Suisse Group's CSGN forecast-beating third-quarter earnings were given a tepid reception by investors, wary that the bank's fat margins in investment banking could tempt back competitors.The Swiss bank, which emerged as a winner from the credit crisis, managing without state aid, was upbeat...
- News items 2009-10-22
- King to Co-head Corp Finance at BarCap
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Barclays Capital named former Citigroup banker Tom King as co-head of corporate finance -- another London-based senior hire by the Barclays BARC unit as it looks to become a global, full-service investment bank.King, who left Citigroup C in September, will work alongside New York based Ros...
- News items 2009-10-27
- RBS Cuts Losses, Investment Bank Slumps
- By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Steve SlaterLONDON (Reuters UK) - Losses at part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland more than halved in the third quarter with a sharp reduction in bad debt writeoffs, despite a slump in profits at its beleaguered investment bank."I have repeatedly said this is a marathon, not a...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Analysts, Cheerleaders and CFOs
- Scandals involving rigged IPO share distributions and analysts who pull punches about clients are grabbing headlines. For CFOs, working with investment bankers may never be the same. Moreover this article focuses that industry are calling for reform of two practices that stand out as flagrant abuses: the manipulation of initial...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- The Syndicated Loan Market
- "The syndicated loan market, a hybrid of the commercial banking and investment banking worlds, is globally one of the largest and most flexible sources of capital. Syndicated loans have become an important corporate financing technique, particularly for large firms and increasingly for midsized firms.Here the author describes...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- The cost of barriers to entry
- This paper shows that the arrival of the euro led to a reduction in the underwriting fees of corporate bonds issued in the new currency and that this reduction was largely due to greater contestability of the investment banking business in the post-EMU European market. It also shows that the...
- White papers 2003-09-08
- Press To Cfos: Lighten Up On Reg FD!
- Members of the news media and some financial information providers argue that compliance with the rule could be a lot easier if CFOs and other corporate officials relied upon the press more often to distribute financial information. Although analysts have been hurt by the rule in the short run, it...
- White papers 2001-04-25
- As the Ink Dries, Wall Street Follies Continue
- Under the terms of the global investment banking settlement announced on April 28th, ten investment banks (Salomon Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers, UBS Warburg and Piper Jaffray) will pay regulators $1.4 billion and physically and economically separate...
- White papers 2003-09-04
- NASD And NYSE Adopt New Rules On Analyst Recommendations Of Securities
- In response to growing concerns about potential conflicts of interest presented by analyst recommendations of securities in research reports and public appearances, both the NASD and the NYSE have adopted new rules that are designed to improve the quality and objectivity of research and to broaden the disclosure obligations applicable...
- White papers 2003-05-23
- Taking Advantage of Extra Clout at the Bargaining Table
- This paper discusses the cash management practices and various other activities. Although consolidation ensures banks long-term negotiating strength, CFOs and treasurers are enjoying a taste of power thanks to kinder credit markets .Over the past four years, the increasingly desperate scramble for credit has cost corporate treasury staffs a lot...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- U.S. Investment Bank Semi- Annual Review - 4Q00
- The Semi-annual Review focuses on the report's rated universe of U.S. investment banking companies. This group includes the industry's most active debt issuers and accounts for most of the investment banking system's assets. This report begins with a general overview of the industry, followed by company specific commentary and extensive...
- White papers 2001-05-02
- Investment Banking and Security Market Development: Does Finance Follow Industry?
- Long-term relationships between business firms and investment banks are pervasive in developed security markets and there is evidence that better monitoring and information result from these relationships. Therefore, security markets should allocate resources better when an investment banking industry exists. This paper studies the necessary conditions for the emergence of...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Evidence of Information Spillovers in the Production of Investment Banking Services
- The article provides evidence that firm attempting IPOs condition offer terms and the decision whether to carry through with an offering on the experience of their primary market contemporaries. Moreover, while initial returns and IPO volume are positively correlated in the aggregate, the correlation is negative among contemporaneous offerings subject...
- White papers 2002-03-21
- Growing Profits Under Pressure: Integrating Corporate and Investment Banking
- The effects of the economic downturn have hurt corporate profits and placed increased pressure on big banks' corporate - and investment-banking businesses. Many institutions therefore need to rethink how they serve their corporate clients. For many competitors, there are significant competitive advantages in merging their corporate- and investment-banking businesses. This...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Investment Banking and Capital Markets
- Investment banks earned record profits in the first quarter of 2004. BCG's investment-banking performance index climbed 40 points to a record level of 127.6. Investment banking results were again supported by strong gains in fixed income trading while profit margins remained high due to trading revenues for the top 10...
- White papers 2004-05-24
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