Banking news

Goldman eyes 'prop desk' shake-up

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 4 - 10:28pm
Move, expected after last month's passage of US financial reform legislation, underlines Goldman's need to refocus its strategy away from investments with its own funds as the post-crisis regulatory regime emerges
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London court rules on Lehman ringfences

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 3 - 12:31am
Court ruling gives hedge funds whose money was not properly ringfenced when Lehman Brothers collapsed access to billions of dollars deposited with the investment bank's UK division
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London court rules on Lehman ringfences

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 3 - 12:31am
Court ruling gives hedge funds whose money was not properly ringfenced when Lehman Brothers collapsed access to billions of dollars deposited with the investment bank's UK division
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Bahrain bank faces rocky road to recovery

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 2 - 7:34pm
Gulf Finance House has to find a new business model after its pre-2008 excesses that included a dependence on debts and heavy exposure to regional property
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Bahrain bank faces rocky road to recovery

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 2 - 7:34pm
Gulf Finance House has to find a new business model after its pre-2008 excesses that included a dependence on debts and heavy exposure to regional property
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New UBS HQ to be City's largest building

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 2 - 10:29am
The City of London's largest office building is to house the new European headquarters of UBS after it agreed a deal to remain on the Broadgate estate
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New UBS HQ to be City's largest building

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, August 2 - 10:29am
The City of London's largest office building is to house the new European headquarters of UBS after it agreed a deal to remain on the Broadgate estate
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Lazard outpaces rivals as merger fees rise

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 29 - 5:55am
The investment-banking boutique shakes off a brutal spring on Wall Street to post better than expected quarterly profits as asset-management and merger advisory revenues increase 27%
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Lazard outpaces rivals as merger fees rise

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 29 - 5:55am
The investment-banking boutique shakes off a brutal spring on Wall Street to post better than expected quarterly profits as asset-management and merger advisory revenues increase 27%
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Credit Suisse issues new hybrid bonds

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 28 - 9:31pm
Finance directors take a bullish line on likelihood regulators will continue to allow these controversial bonds to count towards top-notch tier one capital
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Credit Suisse issues new hybrid bonds

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 28 - 9:31pm
Finance directors take a bullish line on likelihood regulators will continue to allow these controversial bonds to count towards top-notch tier one capital
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Deutsche Bank beats expectations

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 28 - 4:28am
The German bank reports net income of €1.2bn for the second quarter after a tough period of trading and reveals a €14.8bn gross debt exposure to 'peripheral' EU states
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Banks face lawsuits over alleged Ponzi scheme

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 28 - 12:45am
Investors who lost millions in an alleged German Ponzi scheme are threatening legal action against Barclays, HSBC and Rabobank, alleging that the banks may have acted irresponsibly
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Investment banking lifts UBS

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 27 - 11:14pm
The Swiss bank reports second-quarter profit of SFr2bn, pulling ahead of its domestic rival Credit Suisse thanks to resilient earnings in investment banking and a robust private banking performance
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Deutsche Bank yields over sovereign holdings

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 26 - 10:18pm
The German bank's shares fell as much as 3.5 per cent in early trading on Monday before recovering, with market commentators blaming the fall on the non-disclosure, as well as profit-taking ahead of results
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Jain sets up structure for Deutsche Bank units

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 26 - 9:27pm
Anshu Jain's moves to integrate the German bank's investment banking units emphasises the group's ambitions to grow outside its core European market
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Morgan Stanley confirms return to form

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 22 - 4:13am
The bank's shares rise 6% after better than expected quarterly profits and trading revenues, as investors bet the company would continue to gain ground on rivals
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Banks line up to advise AIA

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 22 - 1:16am
Goldman Sachs is set to join Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank as the lead banks for the planned $12bn-$15bn Hong Kong ­listing of AIA
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Goldman finds itself at crossroads

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 21 - 3:23am
With an SEC skirmish now behind it and a clearer roadmap to regulatory reform before it, investors can now shift their focus back to the bank's business
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Goldman profits plummet by 83%

Financial and banking news from ft.com - 2010, July 21 - 1:37am
The bank's quarterly profits plunged from a year ago as revenue slumped and the bank set aside more than $1bn for the UK bonus tax and its historic settlement with US securities regulators
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