February 2012
A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including news that Ivan Glasenberg plans to step down as CEO of Glencore.
February 2012
A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including news that global stocks have hit a six-month high as hopes for a worldwide economic recovery outweigh the negative impact of the eurozone fiscal crisis
February 2012
UBS isn’t doing too badly for a bank supposedly in the midst of a terminal crisis
February 2012
A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including news that Glencore has purchased Xstrata in a $90 billion deal
February 2012
A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including reports that finance watchdogs are set to crack down on shadow banking.
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February 2012
Brazil’s IPO market has been tarnished, so it’s imperative the first deal for 2012 is done with care and respect.
February 2012
Private banks are looking to help clients move away from the greed-is-good mentality.
February 2012
The business is consolidating rapidly and survivors might enjoy rising market share and healthier margins.
February 2012
US and European banks might soon do business in Myanmar, and could learn much from Indonesia and Vietnam’s transitions.
February 2012
The ECB doesn’t have to take the same losses on Greek debt as the private sector – but it should.
January 2012
So long as Asian markets remain risk-on bets to global portfolio managers, capital will continue to flee when things get bad elsewhere.
January 2012
Cost of protection under scrutiny as demand for risk transfer grows.
January 2012
Russia’s capital markets face a difficult future. Even if the will for change is there, it will be a long and difficult process.
January 2012
Will Europe’s leaders do enough to convince banks to finance its problem sovereigns through an ECB-led carry trade?
January 2012
A look at 2011’s investment-banking business makes grim reading for banks fearing a further decline this year.
January 2012
Compensation levels in the US show that most bank CEOs have yet to learn the meaning of the word restraint.
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February 2012
The market’s almost hysterical reaction to the European Central Bank’s December three-year LTRO shows just how much funding pressure had built up among Europe’s banks in the second half of last year.
February 2012
David Einhorn’s £7.2 million ($11.3 million) fine by the UK’s Financial Services Authority for insider trading in Punch Taverns stock should make some hedge fund managers and investment bankers very afraid.
February 2012
When David Einhorn was sanctioned by the UK’s Financial Services Authority at the end of January he was described in one newspaper profile as “self-effacing”, which was an odd phrase for a hedge fund manager who relishes the spotlight, at least by the standards of the industry.
February 2012
February 2012
New strictures have breathed life into shadow banking – it now constitutes about a quarter of the global financial system – and regulators fear they have created a monster. But look closer and there's much more to this financial Frankenstein…
January 2012
By industry standards, Hester deserved a bonus from RBS; by political imperative, he should never have agreed to accept it. But could this dreadful saga be a mere warm-up for bank bonus season in the UK and beyond?
January 2012
January 2012
Europe’s leaders aren’t giving the currency what it needs: reform, fiscal discipline and international support.
January 2012
It is hard to be optimistic about 2012. But much of the bad news is reflected in prices and a confluence of factors could yet provide support for equity markets and other risky assets.
January 2012
Banks face tough decisions on how hard they should fight to retain sales and trading market share in different sectors, as the great deleveraging drive of 2012 gets under way.
January 2012
More coals were heaped on the head of Johnny Cameron after the details in December’s FSA report on the failure of RBS revealed how little he appeared to understand the mechanics of structured credit when he was head of global banking and markets at the firm.
January 2012
When, in December, Brazil withdrew its IOF tax on foreign investments in Brazilian equities many breathed a sigh of relief – not just for the marginal benefits that the removal will have on the poorly performing Bovespa, but because it could be seen as the end of the currency wars. The rapid appreciation of emerging market currencies had led Brazil to introduce a range of capital controls aimed at stemming the capital inflows that pushed the real to $1.50.
January 2012
Abigail Hofman has consistently called for Nomura to rethink its global strategy. What was behind the sudden departure of Jesse Bhattal, and what needs to happen next?
January 2012
With deals still hard to come by, what can investment bankers do when they have nothing to do? And what was behind Michel Peretié’s sudden departure from SocGen?
December 2011
Who’d be a bank chief executive? Most fear that 2012 will make a tough 2011 seem like a cake-walk; and it could be the year of the chop at the top of the industry
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January 2012
January 2012
In a society obsessed with maximizing profit, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of microfinance through Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has a new goal: to get business and finance to take off its ‘profit-maximizing glasses’ and think about its role in society instead
August 2011
Local and global cash management banks are forging stronger partnerships as they aim to offer clients the widest geographic coverage they can in a low interest rate environment. Euromoney speaks with Paul Camp at Deutsche Bank and Tolga Egemen at Garanti Bank on how these partnerships aim to achieve and provide these services, with attention to detail in a seamless fashion.
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January 2012
January 2012
Bankers and corporate treasurers discuss what they are looking for from their relationships and the challenges of funding, the eurozone, Basle III and Sepa.
January 2012
Russia’s capital markets remain upbeat, despite negative forecasts from the IMF. Amid the eurozone crisis, market players see an opportunity for the country to prove itself as a developed and reliable financial centre. Bankers, investors and issuers discuss what needs to happen next.
January 2012
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