Top Investment Banking News for 03/16/2009

UBS to Name Joint Head of Media Investment Banking - DealBook Blog .
The Swiss bank UBS will name Aryeh Bourkoff to be joint global head of media and communications investment banking on Thursday, taking over for Jeff Sine, a vice chairman who is resigning, people briefed on the matter told DealBook. ...

China's CITIC Securities teams with US brokerage (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A subsidiary of China's largest listed brokerage, CITIC Securities, said Monday it had set up a finance joint venture with US investment banking firm Evercore Partners Inc...

Nomura Shuts Lehman Investment Banking Department (Update2) (Bloomberg)
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Nomura Holdings Inc. , Japans largest brokerage, will shut down an investment banking department containing former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc...

Ronn Motor Company Engages Investment Banking Firm Pepperwood .
The Company has entered into an Investment Banking Advisory Agreement with Pepperwood Partners of Dallas, Texas...

Unicorn Investment Bank announces 2008 net profit of US$35 million - Al-Bawaba

Unicorn Investment Bank announces 2008 net profit of US$35 million
Al-Bawaba, Jordan
Unicorn Investment Bank BSC (c) (Unicorn) announces a record 2008 operating profit of US$73.8 million before impairments and fair value write-downs, an increase of 46% from US$50.4 million in 2007. Net profit after impairments and fair value .

Nomura Shuts Lehman Investment Banking Department (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Nomura Holdings Inc. , Japans largest brokerage, said it will shut down an investment banking department housing former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc...

Barclays Capital Appoints New Managing Director for Investment .
He will work alongside David Zhang and Baomin Li, managing directors for investment banking China, as the senior client coverage team heads responsible for originating business opportunities. He will be based in Hong Kong and will ...

Indian Communists to Oppose Asset Sales, Foreign Investments (Bloomberg)
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is opposed to the sale of state assets and easing foreign investment rules in banking and insurance, steps the government considers key to funding infrastructure development...

AIG Reveals Biggest Beneficiaries of Its Rescue - New York Times

AIG Reveals Biggest Beneficiaries of Its Rescue
New York Times, United States
Nearly $44 billion was paid out to 20 firms, most of which were banks. (One non-bank that appeared on the list was the Citadel Investment Group, the giant hedge fund based in Chicago. It received about $200 million.) AIG also disclosed $12.1 billion in .

Chris For Liberty: An Analysis of Investment Banking
Investment banking firms and investment banking in general have been in the news quite a bit over the past six months or so. How did these investment banks wind up in so much trouble? Home prices increased because the securitization ...

Investment Banking Wardrobe for Women | Mergers & Inquisitions
Guide to women's attire in investment banking and how to craft an appropriate wardrobe...

Roche Holding: One Investment Bank, Fewer Fees - Wall Street Journal Blogs

Roche Holding: One Investment Bank, Fewer Fees
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Associated Press Roche only used one investment bank, boutique Greenhill & Co., to help it win its months-long, $46.8 billion pursuit of Genentech. It is unusual to see only one adviser on a deal of this size, particularly when two other banks, .

Merrills FIG empire in flux after defections, reshuffle - Euroweek.com

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Merrills FIG empire in flux after defections, reshuffle
Euroweek.com, UK
Orcel is understood to have generated $700m of business for Merrill last year and this month became the top investment banker outside the US at Bank of America Merrill Lynch after being promoted to run global banking and wealth management. .
Merrill Lynch's mini-exodus of bankers The Daily Deal (subscription)
Finger Interests Urges Bank of America Shareholders to Vote for . Business Wire (press release)
The shaming of John Thain Financial Times
Insurance News Net (press release) - U.S. News & World Report
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Banking clarity - Los Angeles Times

Banking clarity
Los Angeles Times, CA
The funding supplied by the Treasury Department isn't just a poor substitute for private investment. The feds' involvement makes it harder for banks to sell shares. Analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a New York investment bank, recently advised .

Banking Shares Lift Asian Markets; Energy Stocks Lower (Fox News)
Banking Shares Lift Asian Markets; Energy Stocks Lower..

BofA names key bankers outside the Americas -memo - Reuters

BofA names key bankers outside the Americas -memo
Reuters
The memo, dated Friday, detailed several changes to the leadership of the bank's international corporate and investment banking business, which encompasses Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region. .

Solving problems is his forte - Indianapolis Star

Solving problems is his forte
Indianapolis Star, United States
In the early 1980s, Rattner found himself drawn to the world of investment banking. He took to his new career quickly, working for Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley and eventually settling at the boutique investment firm Lazard Freres, where he was an .

STEC Appoints Technology Investment Banking Veteran Chris Colpitts .
STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC) announced today that Chris Colpitts, Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank, has been appointed as an independent director to the STEC Board, effective March 5, 2009...

Investment bank adds new hires (BizJournals)
The banking fallout has had a silver lining for Demeter Group, a San Francisco boutique investment bank that has carved out a niche for itself working with mid-sized companies in the food, beverage, beauty and apparel sectors...

Investment Banking Interview Prep: Business Week Blog: First Jobs .
If you haven't caught on yet, finding a job in investment banking this year, especially if you are from a 'non-target' school, is next to - if not - impossible. (If you are from a 'non-target' school and did get a job in banking please ...

Nomura to to Move Investment Banking Head to London (New York Times)
The global head of Nomura Holdings s investment banking business will be based outside Japan for the first time in the banks 84-year history, it said on Friday. Hiromi Yamaji is moving to London...

European Bonds Drop for Second Day as Global Stock Markets Gain - Bloomberg

European Bonds Drop for Second Day as Global Stock Markets Gain
Bloomberg
EURœWe are opening a bit weaker as equity markets are quite stable,EUR said Kornelius Purps, a fixed-income strategist in Munich at Unicredit Market & Investment Banking. EURœI dont see any concrete steps from the G-20 meeting this weekend so it shouldnt .

Matthew Yglesias » Justice, Gender, and Investment Banking
One Response to EURœJustice, Gender, and Investment BankingEUR. Glaivester Says: March 7th, 2009 at 12:10 pm. hat aspect of finance is all about making sound assessments of risk. And yet, both popular stereotype, social science, ...

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services bucks trend to find new niche - MiamiHerald.com

MiamiHerald.com

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services bucks trend to find new niche
MiamiHerald.com, FL
BY JOHN DORSCHNER While some of the biggest names in investment banking have crashed in the past year, Miami's Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services is launching a bold new initiative to become the investment bank for Florida. .

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-03-13 10:47 Nomura moves investment banking head to London (Interactive Investor)
LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - The global head of Nomura Holdings's investment banking business will be based outside Japan for the first time in the bank's 84-year history, it said on Friday. Hiromi Yamaji is moving to London. "(This) signals that Nomura is committed to internationalising its business," a spokeswoman said. Japan's largest brokerage bought most of the Asian, European and Middle ...

Nomura moves investment banking head to London (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - The global head of Nomura Holdings's <8604.T> investment banking business will be based outside Japan for the first time in the bank's 84-year history, it said on Friday...

Nomura to Move Investment Banking Head to London - DealBook Blog .
The global head of Nomura Holdingss investment banking business will be based outside Japan for the first time in the banks 84-year history, it said on Friday. Hiromi Yamaji is moving to London. The shift EURœsignals that Nomura is ...

Emerging market telcos race for banking business (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
* MTN, Zain go head to head to offer mobile banking..

Barclays: what the analysts say - guardian.co.uk

Reuters

Barclays: what the analysts say
guardian.co.uk, UK
"We believe investment banking businesses are turning positive earlier in this cycle than retail/commercial banking. Goldman and Morgan Stanley earnings estimates have started to creep up. A positive for Barclays. "Barclays has been hit hard by the .
Barclays seeks 4bn windfall Telegraph.co.uk
Barclays confirms talks on potential iShares sale Reuters
Barclays confirms it may sell fund management arm iShares Proactive Investors UK
BBC News - guardian.co.uk
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Vice President, Investment Banking/ M&A | Selby Jennings .
Vice President, Investment Banking/ M&A. In Current Vacancies, Analysis Jobs. A well-established private equity firm is seeking an investment banker covering German markets out of Frankfurt. The manger is seeking an exceptional ...

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