Resources

25 Resources for

investment banking

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

BNET Resources

HSBC Says First-quarter Profit Up, Bad Debts Jump: LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings said its profit in the first quarter was ahead of a year earlier as growth in Asia and elsewhere helped counter another big hit for bad debts on U.S. home loans. HSBC said on Monday...; Tags: Financial services, HSBC Holdings Plc., housing market, deterioration, bank, mortgage, Europe, finance, U.S., London, analyst, Thomson Reuters Corp., credit card, acquisition, benefit, financial, network; News items 2008-05-12
Wachovia to Cut investment banking Jobs in Q2: NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Wachovia Corp (WB), the fourth-largest U.S. bank, plans to cut 12 percent of jobs in its markets and investment banking operations in the second quarter, Chief Financial Officer Tom Wurtz said on Monday. The job cuts are on top of previous...; Tags: Wachovia Corp., Investment Banking, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-14
Societe Generale Names Didier Valet as New CFO: PARIS (Reuters) - Societe Generale (SOGN), the French bank hit by a rogue trading scandal, said Didier Valet would become its new chief financial officer. Valet, a 40-year old graduate of the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique who has been with SocGen since 2000, will...; Tags: Investment, rogue, trader, lawyer, stock market, Paris, stock, Thomson Reuters Corp., bank; News items 2008-05-09
JPMorgan Sees Bear Clients Returning, Job Cuts: NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM), which is buying Bear Stearns Cos (BSC), expects to regain business from Bear clients who stopped doing business with the troubled investment bank, JPMorgan's co-chief executive of investment banking said on Wednesday....; Tags: Financial services, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce management, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., investment banking, downsizing, merger, bank, New York, capital market, Thomson Reuters Corp., Webcast, asset; News items 2008-05-07
Global Investment Bank: Data Management: A investment banking division of one of the world's leading global financial services companies had implemented a program to reduce market data costs and establish best practices in contract negotiation and market data usage. As this program was winding down, the organization wanted an objective third-party provider to validate the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Accenture Ltd., financial services company, financial service, investment banking, data management, financial, negotiation, high-performance, industry, best practice; Case studies

Large Global Bank: One of the world's largest global banks needed to build and maintain a centralized customer service center to support its corporate and investment banking operations throughout Asia. The firm decided the best course of action was to outsource the project to Capgemini. The scope of the resulting partnership was significant,...; Tags: Financial services, Capgemini, investment banking, bank, outsource, customer service, partnership; Case studies
Wachovia Posts Surprise Q1 Loss: Wachovia Corp posted a surprise first-quarter loss on Monday as credit problems from mortgages and other debt soared, prompting it to raise $US7 billion ($A7.57 billion) of capital, slash its dividend and cut jobs.Wachovia, the fourth-largest US bank, sold shares at a discount after boosting its reserves for credit...; Tags: Bank, Amount, Dividend, Wachovia Corp., Investment Banking, Mortgages, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures; News items 2008-04-15
investment banking and Capital Markets: Market Report - Third Quarter 2005 Edition: This paper, with the help of certain facts and figures, reports that the investment banking industry surged ahead in the third quarter 2005, with pre-tax profit margins up 5 percent and revenues up 30 percent over the second quarter. These gains stood in stark contrast to third-quarter results from previous...; Tags: Investment, Operational accounting, Financial services, investment banking, revenue, capital market, profit margin, finance, performance, industry; White papers 2005-11-28
The State of the Banking Industry: Banking and investment banking & Securities: This report provides an overview of significant activities that have occurred in the past few months including: general industry highlights; updates on accounting, tax, regulatory and legislative developments; consolidation and convergence; risk management; international issues; and e-business and technology.; Tags: Financial services, Strategy, KPMG Consulting Inc., investment banking, risk management, banking, tax, accounting, e-business, industry; White papers 2005-03-29
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...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, investment banking, profit margin, fixed income, bank, capital market, performance; White papers 2004-05-24
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...; Tags: Financial services, Treasury & Risk Management, investment banking, interest rate, bank; White papers 2004-01-01
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...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Bank for International Settlements, investment banking, borrower, bond, barrier, analysis; White papers 2003-09-08
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...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Reed Elsevier Inc., investment banking, wall; White papers 2003-09-04
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...; Tags: Banking, Investment, Financial services, Bank of Canada, commercial banking, investment banking, financing, U.S., monitoring; White papers 2003-06-01
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...; Tags: NASD, research analyst, New York Stock Exchange, investment banking, security, compensation, financial, analyst; White papers 2003-05-23
Analysts' Conflict of Interest and Biases in Earnings Forecasts: Analysts' earnings forecasts are influenced by their desire to win investment banking clients. This report hypothesizes that the equity bull market of the 1990s, along with the boom in investment banking business, exacerbated analysts' conflict of interest and their incentives to adjust strategically forecasts to avoid earnings disappointments. It documents...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, earnings forecast, investment banking, equity, analyst, incentive; White papers 2003-03-01
Determinants Of The Use Of Financial Incentives In investment banking: This paper examines the use of incentive pay schemes within the financial services sector in London. Various theories of wage determination are reviewed with particular attention placed on the principal-agent literature as a framework for analysing the use of incentive pay. This is combined with case study interviews and a...; Tags: Incentive, University Of Cambridge, Occupation, Financial, Investment Banking, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance; White papers 2003-03-01
SRO Research Conflict Of Interest Rules Modified To Meet SOX Requirements: From the executive summary: ‘The revised rules imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act include revisions relating to compensation, timing of research reports, analyst interactions with issuers and non-research personnel, disclosure, personal trading, and education. Additionally, the rules make permanent an exemption from the gatekeeper provisions for firms with limited investment banking...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compensation; White papers 2003-01-01
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...; Tags: Investment, Penton Media Inc., CFO, investment banking, analyst, IPO, marketing, industry; White papers 2002-12-01
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...; Tags: Investment, Financial Planning, Financial services, New York Stock Exchange, valuation, IPO, equity, investment banking; White papers 2002-03-21