Top Investment Banking News for 03/19/2009



Better year expected from banking fees - Nationmultimedia.com
Asia Plus Securities, the country's third-largest brokerage firm by stock-trading value, expects to post better results this year, driven by advisory fees for investment banking in compensation for shrinking brokering fees. ...

Aladdin hires 'Watchmen' banker - Norwalk Advocate

Aladdin hires 'Watchmen' banker
Norwalk Advocate, ct
"The investment-banking boutique model, the way it was run in the late '80s and early '90s before the reliance on egregious leverage, will afford its principals and investors the best earnings multiple in the next three to five years," said Neilinger, .
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As Resurgent US Banks Shift Into Profit Mode, Hitch a Ride With . - Money Morning

Reuters
As Resurgent US Banks Shift Into Profit Mode, Hitch a Ride With .
Money Morning
For one thing, Citigroup is involved in all sorts of investment banking, and in a variety of trading businesses, most of which are either down sharply due to the recession or that have disappeared altogether. For another, we still dont know how large .
Wells Fargo Assails TARP, Calls Stress Test EURAsinine Bloomberg
Asia Day Ahead: Depression Fears Subside on Bernanke Bloomberg
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UK bank crisis prompts interest in Glass-Steagall - MSNBC

UK bank crisis prompts interest in Glass-Steagall
MSNBC
Nigel Lawson, who served as UK Treasury chief from 1983 to 1989 under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, believes all major financial centers need to return "to the separation of commercial banking from investment banking that was enforced in the US .
Bank of England: On the Glass-Steagall Bandwagon Seeking Alpha
Jeremy Warner: Here's one approach to miscreant banks EUR just break . Independent
EURWall Street and the financial crisis Business Mirror
guardian.co.uk - CityWire.co.uk
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Better year expected from banking fees (The Nation - Thailand's English news)
Asia Plus Securities, the country's third-largest brokerage firm by stock-trading value, expects to post better results this year, driven by advisory fees for investment banking in compensation for shrinking brokering fees...

Investment losses hit Prudential (BBC News)
UK insurance giant Prudential reports a pre-tax loss of 2.1bn for 2008 after being hit by investment losses...

Credit Suisse Tunjuk Kepala Investment Banking Baru (okezone)
Credit Suisse menunjuk Kepala Investment Banking Asia Pacific baru, yakni Helman Sitohang dan Vikram Malhotra. Keduanya juga akan menjabat sebagai Kepala Bagian Global Market Solutions Group di Asia Pacific...

Rise in US auto prices baffles analysts, revisions seen - Reuters

Rise in US auto prices baffles analysts, revisions seen
Reuters
"None of these increases gel particularly well with the current economic situation," said Harm Bandholz, an economist at Unicredit Markets and Investment Banking. Retailers across the board are resorting to deep price discounts to attract buyers amid a .
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KBW enhances investment banking team
Dewey, who takes up his role with immediate effect, brings with him over a decade of experience in investment banking and most recently worked for Credit Suisse Securities, LLC as a managing director. During his time as an MD for Credit ...

KBW Announces Changes to KBW Insurance Index (KIX), KBW Capital Markets Index (KSX), and KBW Regional Banking Index . (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., a full service investment bank that specializes in the financial services sector, and a wholly owned subsidiary of KBW, Inc. , today announced a quarterly rebalancing and upcoming changes to the KBW Capital Markets Index , KBW Insurance Index , and KBW Regional Banking Index ...

San Francisco Sentinel Blog Archives BANKING BRAIN DRAIN TO .
Earlier this month, investment banking boutique Moelis & Co said it had hired Chris Ryan, former global head of credit fixed-income at UBS, as a managing director in New York, its second high profile hire in a month. ...

Oppenheimer Announces the Addition of Several Recent Senior Hires in Investment Banking (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., a unit of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc., is pleased to announce the addition of several recent senior hires in the Investment Banking Department...

Britain tries to set pace on stricter banking rules (International Herald Tribune)
Discussions at a meeting of leaders from the Group of 20 countries next month are expected to be shaped by a new blueprint from the British Financial Services Authority aimed at shaking up global banking regulations...

India Infoline to launch investment banking services in Singapore (Business Standard India)
India Infoline, a domestic brokerage firm, is planning to launch broking and investment banking services in Singapore in the next one year...

Gulf investment banks must adapt or die (Financial Times)
Investment banking firms in the Middle East need to adapt, speedily, to the realities of the new world emerging from the economic crisis. Their business models, which are built on leverage, proprietary trading, and investing equity capital and borrowed money in illiquid assets, are not sustainable...

HVB reveals 2008 performance
However, the Retail and Wealth Management divisions of HVB did manage to record adequate performances, but the Markets & Investment Banking division was badly hit by the financial crisis. The Markets & Investment Banking division ...

One Former Investment Banker's Take on Restoring the 'Financial . - Knowledge@Wharton

Boston Globe
One Former Investment Banker's Take on Restoring the 'Financial .
Knowledge@Wharton, PA
Goldman has been one of the investment banks that people thought would survive and yet it has faced its own meltdown in recent months. When you were there, did you see any signs in the financial services industry that we were headed for the type of .
Goldman offers loans to stretched staff: report Reuters
Goldman Sachs lends money to its cash-strapped executives guardian.co.uk
President Barack Obama should serve the taxpayers, not Goldman . Telegraph.co.uk
Exec Digital - FinancialAdvice.co.uk
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EconomPic: Investment Banking Bonus Matrix: AIG Edition
Looks like it is AGAIN time to whip out the Investment Banking Bonus Matrix (apologies for those sick of seeing this thing. but apparently I haven't shown it enough to get comments like that). Definitely an argument from the bottom ...

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 EURsignals that Nomura is ...

WSJ : Japan's Nomura Holdings appoints Perry Hoffmeister head of . - RTT News

WSJ : Japan's Nomura Holdings appoints Perry Hoffmeister head of .
RTT News, NY
(RTTNews) - Tuesday, according to Wall Street reports, Japan's largest brokerage firm Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NMR: News ) has appointed Perry Hoffmeister as head of investment banking in New York. This is seen as a step by Nomura to boost its business .
WSJ: Nomura Holdings selects Perry Hoffmeister as head of . RTT News
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Senior Executives Continue to Leave Big Banks (New York Times)
Boutique investment firms and top hedge funds are slowly lapping up the cream of global banking talent as the financial crisis forces banks to cut staff and limit the pay of their top risk-takers, Reuters says...

* Investment bank business model still valid - guardian.co.uk

Reuters
* Investment bank business model still valid
guardian.co.uk, UK
By Douwe Miedema LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Investment banks can continue to make money as they shift into lower gear in the wake of a global clampdown by financial watchdogs, defying the idea their business model is a thing of the past. .
FSA review opposes Glass-Steagall re-introduction Financial News (subscription)
UK and Germany Call for Tougher Regulation of Banks Wall Street Journal
fsa's last weapon in the new financial world will be discrection Telegraph.co.uk
Times Online - Wall Street Journal
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FSA Proposals a Missed Opportunity to Divorce Investment and .
However, for some strange reason, they've stopped short of proposing to separate retail banking from investment banking. The two are quite different and should be regulated differently IMO. Way too many people who trusted their cash to ...

Australia, NZ Dollars Drop From 1-Month Highs on Rate Outlook - Bloomberg

Australia, NZ Dollars Drop From 1-Month Highs on Rate Outlook
Bloomberg
The Feds move should EURmake Australian government bonds more attractive than US Treasuries,EUR wrote Sydney-based Peter Jolly, head of market research at National Australia Bank Ltd.s investment banking unit in Sydney. Investors should buy Australian .
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* Says climate beneficial to smaller investment banks - guardian.co.uk

* Says climate beneficial to smaller investment banks
guardian.co.uk, UK
PARIS, March 19 (Reuters) - Despite the deep wounds caused to the investment banking industry by the credit crisis, one of the sector's smaller players said it was not only surviving but even thriving on the crisis. Niche corporate finance firm .
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Boutiques, hedge funds lure cream of global banking (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Boutique investment firms and top hedge funds are slowly lapping up the cream of global banking talent as the financial crisis forces banks to cut staff and limit the pay of their top risk-takers...

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Kothari sells 10% stake in DSP Merrill Lynch - Times of India

ABC News
Kothari sells 10% stake in DSP Merrill Lynch
Times of India, India
However, he continued to hold 10% stake in the investment banking company. He exercised the put option to sell his stake, said a source. Most of the standalone investment banking company found it difficult to survive in the present financial turmoil .
Hemendra Kothari to step down as chairman, DSP Merrill Lynch Livemint
Bank of America Buys Rest of Merrills India Unit Bloomberg
Bank of America Merrill Names New Head of Investing Wall Street Journal Blogs
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