February 2012
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
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
December 2011
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January 2012
Europe’s leaders aren’t giving the currency what it needs: reform, fiscal discipline and international support.
December 2011
Unless crucial links in the chain of contagion are broken and sufficient resources are provided to cover all sovereign liabilities, the eurozone is doomed.
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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
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.
December 2011
There is no solution to indebtedness and the inevitable and painful process of deleveraging, so lean back and protect yourself like Muhammad Ali and the US Congress.
More inside investment stories
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.
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.
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