Top Investment Banking News for 05/13/2009



Investment-Banking Arm Gives HSBC a Lift - Deal Journal - WSJ
The trend of solid investment-banking operations continued at HSBC Holding, as the UK bank reported a record pretax first quarter profit in part on the back of its foreign-exchange and interest-rate-trading operations...

New Oracle DBA: Blue skying - Investment Banking
Blue skying - Investment Banking. Blue Skying is the process of getting the security approved for sale to the public within a state. This is popularly called as "Blue Skying" the issue. Blue skying must happen under the following ...

Investment Banking Resumes: Qualities of An Analyst
Many successful bankers started their investment banking career as an analyst. Successful analysts work hard, understand spreadsheets, and have fine analytical skills. Analysts can be promoted to associates who do similar work, ...

Barclays Appoints Vitalo as CEO for Mideast Investment Banking (Bloomberg)
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc, the U.K.s third- largest bank, appointed John Vitalo as chief executive officer of investment banking and investment management for the Middle East...

HSBC firstquarter profits boosted by investment banking arm (Daily Telegraph)
Europe's biggest bank said firstquarter profits were "well ahead" swelled by record results from investment banking...

HSBC investment banking arm makes "record" profit (eFinancial News)
HSBC's global banking and markets business produced a record pre-tax profit in the first quarter, on the back of its foreign exchange and interest rate trading operations, as it become the latest bank to report a surge in its investment banks performance...

HSBC Profit Rises, Investment Banking Strong - Financials * Europe .
HSBC Holdings, Europe's biggest bank, said first-quarter profits were "well ahead" of last year, swelled by record results in its investment bank, but would have been down without accounting gains on its debt...

Ruble Drop Forecast by Nomura; Central Bank Sees Gain - Bloomberg

Ruble Drop Forecast by Nomura; Central Bank Sees Gain
Bloomberg
Urals crude near $35 a barrel could trigger a decline in the ruble to as weak as 46 versus the basket, said Ivan Ivanchenko, Moscow-based chief global strategist for the investment banking unit of VTB Group. EURWhat we're seeing is a short-term, .
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GMP profit drops 66% in investment banking slump (National Post)
GMP Capital Trust, Canadas second-biggest independent brokerage, said first-quarter profit fell 66% on a slowdown in investment-banking transactions...

HSBC banks record investment banking revenues - Banking, Financial .
Find HSBC banks record investment banking revenues and all the latest Banking, Financial Services & Insurance news from Management Today, the online resource for breaking Banking, Financial Services & Insurance news stories and the ...

Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Announces Additions to Its Investment Banking Platform in Energy and Technology (Marketwire)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwire - May 11, 2009) - Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TWPG), a global growth-focused investment bank, today announced that Terris Chorney and Simon Russell joined the firm as Managing Directors in Investment Banking. Mr. Chorney will focus on the Energy practice and will be based in the firm's Calgary office and Mr. Russell will focus on continuing ...

Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Announces Additions to Its Investment Banking Platform in Energy and Technology (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG), a global growth-focused investment bank, today announced that Terris Chorney and Simon Russell joined the firm as Managing Directors in Investment Banking. Mr...

Banks' China Dreams Turn Into Real Money - Wall Street Journal

Financial Post
Banks' China Dreams Turn Into Real Money
Wall Street Journal
By JAMES T. AREDDY SHANGHAI -- The list of frustrations about China's shortcomings as a base for foreign banks and investment firms is long. But many of those companies are increasingly enthusiastic about the profits they are making here. .
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peHUB How a Changing Investment Banking Industry Will Finance .
Private Equity Hub (peHub) is an interactive forum for the private equity community, which includes venture capitalists, buyouts professionals, attorneys, bankers, entrepreneurs, MBA candidates studying PE, and assorted hangers-on...

MDBS Pledge US$15 Billion to Promote Trade and Strengthen . - AllAfrica.com

MDBS Pledge US$15 Billion to Promote Trade and Strengthen .
AllAfrica.com, Washington
The African Development Bank is fully committed to this process and will spare no effort for its successful implementation," Mr. Kaberuka added. For his part, the European Investment Bank President, Philippe Maystadt, said the joint support had become .
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HSBC says first-quarter profits up, investment banking strong (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, said first-quarter profits were "well ahead" of last year, swelled by record results in its investment bank, but would have been down without accounting gains on its debt...

Merriman Curhan Ford appoints head of investment banking
Chambers is promoted from his post as head of Health Care investment banking and succeeds Brock Ganeles, who himself has been promoted to become president of the brokerage division. Jon Merriman, chief executive officer, ...

Top China Executive Leaves bofa Merrill - Wall Street Journal

Top China Executive Leaves bofa Merrill
Wall Street Journal
Ms. Ren was hired as chairman of Merrill Lynch's China investment banking business in February 2007. She left Citigroup Inc., where she was a star China banker, in 2005. Ms. Ren, the daughter-in-law of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang, left Citigroup .
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Barclays Names John Vitalo Mideast CEO Investment Banking - Wall Street Journal

Eye of Dubai (press release)
Barclays Names John Vitalo Mideast CEO Investment Banking
Wall Street Journal
DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Barclays Plc (BCS) named on Tuesday John Vitalo as its new chief executive for investment banking in the Middle East in an effort to tap more business from the region's oil-rich sovereign wealth funds. .
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Barclays Appoints John Vitalo As CEO of IBIM for Middle East American Chronicle
Barclays Reorganizes Middle East Operations Wall Street Journal
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HSBC says Q1 profits up, investment banking strong (The Economic Times)
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Merriman Curhan Ford Promotes John W. Chambers to Head of Investment Banking (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc. today announced that John Chambers, head of Health Care investment banking, has assumed the role as head of its investment banking group...

GMP profit drops 66% in investment banking slump
GMP Capital Trust, Canada's second-biggest independent brokerage, said first-quarter profit fell 66%..

Investment banks work to make bonanza stick - Reuters

Investment banks work to make bonanza stick
Reuters
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - A bonanza for most investment banks in the first quarter will be hard to sustain as margins compress, but the winners from the crisis reckon profits will stay strong as they grab business from troubled rivals. .
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HSBC says first-quarter profits up, investment banking strong .
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JPMorgan, Citigroup Paid in Junk Bonds by Harrah's - Bloomberg

JPMorgan, Citigroup Paid in Junk Bonds by Harrah's
Bloomberg
James Schneider, a managing director at New York-based investment bank Morgan Joseph & Co., said paying investment banking fees in securities isn't unheard of. EURIt is not uncommon, but it's not regular,EUR said Schneider, who ran the exchange offer group .
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Dexia Profit Falls Less Than Estimated on Retail Banking Gains (Bloomberg)
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Dexia SA , the worlds largest lender to local governments, reported a smaller-than-estimated drop in first-quarter profit as wider margins on new loans and improved earnings in retail banking cushioned investment losses...

Bank of America sells CCB shares in private deal - FinanceAsia

Straits Times
Bank of America sells CCB shares in private deal
FinanceAsia, Hong Kong
By Anette Jönsson | 13 May 2009 A group of investors led by China-based Hopu Investment Management has agreed to buy all of the 13.5 billion shares in China Construction Bank that Bank of America has been allowed to sell since a lockup expired on May 7 .
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Bank Of America Raises US$1.2B From CCB Share Sale - Source Wall Street Journal
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STREET MOVES: UBS Hires Internet Analysts From BofA - Wall Street Journal

STREET MOVES: UBS Hires Internet Analysts From BofA
Wall Street Journal
UBS AG's (UBS) investment bank hired three Internet stock-research analysts from Bank of America Corp.'s (BAC) investment bank, marking the latest departures since the banking giant acquired Merrill Lynch. Brian Pitz, formerly lead analyst covering the .
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Geithner: More Investment in Small Banks, "Simpler" Supervision - BusinessWeek

Geithner: More Investment in Small Banks, "Simpler" Supervision
BusinessWeek
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner got what may have been his warmest reception in a while this morning, from the Independent Community Bankers of America, a group of smaller banks. And he gave them a mixed message: More Treasury cash for those small .
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