05/20/2015
Jefferies Aids Apax Payout in Deal Big Banks Said to Avoid
Jefferies is stepping in as the Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency continue a push started in 2013
Investment Banking
05/19/2015
Mizuho Securities USA Expands U.S. Equity Team
Telesco joins MSUSA after fifteen years at Credit Suisse
05/18/2015
Bank of America engaged in big equities hiring. How top bankers reward their wives
Bank of America does not have a top equities sales and trading business
05/18/2015
HEDGE FUND TITAN: Do something more creative than intern at Goldman Sachs
Hedge fund titan Michael Novogratz, the president of Fortress Investment Group, wants kids he hires to do something else other than just intern at Goldman Sachs or a top consulting firm.
05/15/2015
Citigroup Closes Exclusive Credit Program Following Swiss Franc Losses
‘Alternative Credit Program’ clients were fast-tracked through less intensive version of bank’s normal credit checks
05/15/2015
Analysis: Competition prompts SWFs to alter course on real assets
Real estate remains popular – offering excess spreads, inflation protection and stable yields
05/15/2015
Bank of America Issues Second Green Bond
Bank of America has played a critical role in the development of the rapidly expanding green bond market.
05/14/2015
Guggenheim Investments Wins Core Plus Fixed Income U.S. Investment Management Award From Institutional Investor
Guggenheim's Innovative Approach to Core Plus Fixed-Income Management Recognized for Superior Long-Term Results
05/13/2015
Morgan Stanley to Sell Global Oil Merchanting Business
Transaction includes inventory and storage agreements; excludes Morgan Stanley’s client-facilitation oil trading business
05/13/2015
Steven Elkman, Deutsche Bank Executive at ASPCA, Dies at 68
In 1993, he joined the Baltimore-based investment bank, which was acquired four years later by Bankers Trust
05/11/2015
Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity Announces Sale of Creative Circle
MSPE was advised on the transaction by Wells Fargo Securities and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
05/08/2015
UBS Sets Sights on U.S. Investment Banking Again
UBS AG, which stumbled badly the last time it pushed to expand in the lucrative U.S. investment-banking market, is again seeking to build its business here—though this time with more modest ambitions.
05/07/2015
B. Riley & Co. Strengthens Technology Banking Practice with Addition of Team from J. Moore Partners
J. Moore professionals will be based in San Francisco and continue to focus on serving enterprise software companies in rapidly growing areas of the economy, including mobility, Internet of Things, cyber security, analytics, cloud computing, infrastructur
05/06/2015
Future is Fixed Income for J.P. Morgan, Citi
The three U.S. universal banking giants have largely stuck with their fixed income trading desks, despite poor returns and a constant flow of litigation
05/06/2015
Wells Fargo boxes steady
Europe is a key battleground for Wells Fargo as it seeks to expand its international investment banking business
05/06/2015
Citi Launches CDs Linked to Rules-Based Investment Strategy
Citibank N.A. is pleased to provide U.S. investors with access to Market-Linked Certificates of Deposit linked to the Citi Market Pilot 5 Excess Return Index
05/05/2015
China’s Haitong in push to double international business
Plans to hire hundreds of bankers across Europe and the Americas to more than double the size of the Banco Espírito Santo de Investimento operation that it acquired last year.
05/04/2015
Bank of America reverses course, will give shareholders vote on chairman move
It is unclear exactly when shareholders will get to take the vote
04/30/2015
Citi Recognized for Innovation and Achievements in Structured Investments
Bank Recognized as Leader in Two Categories at Annual mtn-i Awards Gala
04/29/2015
Obama: We’re All for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
The administration was dealt an embarrassing political blow when the U.K., Germany, France and a host of other Western nations snubbed requests by Washington officials to sit out membership in the AIIB amid questions over the new institution’s stand