With a high school degree at age 15, a college degree at 19, and a Harvard MBA at 22, media banker Lisbeth Barron got an early start on Wall Street. But after more than 20 years in the business and 11 years at Bear Stearns before its implosion, she wasn’t just looking for a place [...]
Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, today announced that Ark Asset Management Co., Inc. (Ark), a leading investment management firm in the institutional marketplace, will transition its installation of the Eagle investment management suite, which is currently managed in-house, to [...]
Many people see the financial-services sector as somewhat monolithic. Not so Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, who isn’t afraid to talk about Bank of America’s commercial-banking dominance and rub it in the face of investment banks.
In a discussion with The Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing editor, Nik Deogun, at today’s Deals & Deal [...]
Hong Leong Financial Group Bhd (HLFG) has obtained Finance Ministry and the Securities Commission (SC) approvals for its proposed acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Southern Investment Bank Bhd and the entire equity interest in SBB Securities Sdn Bhd.
The development moves it closer to having an investment bank in its stable of companies, thus [...]
Even as Safaricom notched a stellar 50 per cent increase in its share price on the first day of trading, for some investors, it was not a good debut for the telecoms giant.
For thousands of investors, many of who had borrowed expensively for interest rates of up to 20 per cent, Safaricom represented a major [...]
The rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed,” U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told a Depression-blighted nation in his 1933 inauguration address. “There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing.”
Fast-forward three-quarters of [...]
Deutsche Bank AG.’s co-head of investment banking, Anshu Jain sees ’some normalisation’ but does not consider the global financial crisis to be over yet.
‘Is the crisis behind us? Market indicators point to different conclusions,’ he said according to a presentation at an investors’ conference.
Jain estimates U.S. house prices will decline by a further 13 percent [...]
This firm is keen to take on a Compliance and Control Manager to ensure that the controls present in the UK business mirror strategy across European business units. This controls management position will see you working alongside an established control and compliance team, reviewing business activity (issues, treasury, loans to subsidiaries), monitoring performance, problems arising [...]
said on Wednesday it named Nick Reid and former joint head of corporate broking Tim Waddell as joint heads of UK investment banking.
The two will replace Hew Glyn-Davies, who will become a vice -chairman of the invstment banking department and focus on client relationships as well as advising the new team, UBS said in a [...]
Lehman shares fell another 3.6 percent before the bell on Wednesday in electronic trading ahead of the New York Stock Exchange open. Over the past three days, the stock has tumbled 18 percent, chopping nearly $4 billion of market value from the company.
According to the newspaper, options for Lehman in Korea include the state-run Korea [...]
