Top Investment Banking News for 08/18/2009



Is Investment Banking For The Birds?
Did you know that parrots make good investment bankers? At least, thats what an experiment in a stock investment programme in Seoul would have us believe. A parrot took part, along with 10 other human investors, and was ranked third in ...

BoFA appoints new investment banking head - eurobankers.net
Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced that Loli Wu has been appointed managing director and head of Americas transportation and infrastructure investment banking. Wu, who will begin in October, will be based in New York and report to ...

Nigeria: Foreign Direct Investment Hits $13.9 Billion (AllAfrica.com)
Lagos EUR” Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Nigeria has risen to $13.95 billion, the Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, has said.Babalola, who disclosed,this at the annual management lecture of the Department of Management and Accounting of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, weekend, said FDI rose from $2.1 billion in 2004 to $13.95 billion so far this year...

Citigroup to Transfer 200 Staff to Sumitomo Mitsui - Bloomberg

Citigroup to Transfer 200 Staff to Sumitomo Mitsui
Bloomberg
17 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. will transfer as many as 200 investment banking staff to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. as part of the Japanese .

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Barclays, SocGen get Saudi banking license - report (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Barclays and Societe Generale have received investment banking licences for Saudi Arabia, the Financial Times reported on Monday, quoting the Saudi markets regulator...

Taming 'Flow Monsters' - Wall Street Journal

Taming 'Flow Monsters'
Wall Street Journal
Revenue at SociĂtĂ GĂnĂrale SA's corporate and investment-banking unit almost doubled to ‚¬1.29 billion. "The very strong performance in business lines such .
UBS rebuilds fixed-income, currencies and commodities divisionFinancial News (subscription)
Slightly scary research that suggests FICC party won't lasteFinancialCareers UK
'Flow monsters' set for second-half FICC scareFinancial News (subscription)

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Sal. Oppenheim Investment Banking Unit May Split Off, FTD Says - Bloomberg

Sal. Oppenheim Investment Banking Unit May Split Off, FTD Says
Bloomberg
s investment banking unit may split off from the group, Financial Times Deutschland reported, without saying where it got the information. .
Mediobanca eyes Sal.Oppenheim investment bank-sourceReuters
For Sale: Investment Bank, one troubled ownerReuters Blogs
Mediobanca Sees Sal Oppenheim As "Great Opportunity"Wall Street Journal
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The Anti-Reformer: Is Baucus Destroying Health Care the Way Phil .
He was the major sponsor of the the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, passed in 1999, and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, passed in 2000, which tore down the remaining legal barriers to combining commercial banking, investment banking, ...

Globalequityreport.com Announces an Investment Report Featuring . - GlobeNewsWire (press release) (press release)

Globalequityreport.com Announces an Investment Report Featuring .
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Further, it offers trust, asset management, investment advisory, brokerage, and private banking products and services; investment banking, sales and trading .

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The Investment Banking Model, circa 2007 « raincoaster
The Investment Banking Model, circa 2007. marriedtothesea.com. How long ago it seems now. Lucy's mom lost her retirement savings when she found out her mutual fund was evenly split between a Madoff feeder and AAA-rated mortgage ...

Citadel hires former Citigroup investment banker - Crain's Chicago Business

Crain's Chicago Business

Citadel hires former Citigroup investment banker
Crain's Chicago Business
(Reuters) EUR” Hedge fund Citadel, which launched an investment banking group earlier this year, has hired a senior Citigroup Inc. financial institutions .
Citadel investment in E*Trade quashedFierceFinance
OTS Suspends E*Trade, Citadel Order Flow Deal ApplicationNASDAQ

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Investment Banking Business Leader: Middle East - jobs from exec .
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Citigroup Said to Transfer 200 Banking Staff to Sumitomo Mitsui (Bloomberg)
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. will transfer as many as 200 investment banking staff to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. as part of the Japanese banks acquisition of securities units in Tokyo, two people familiar with the situation said...

Merrill Hires Life Sciences Investment Banker - New York Times

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Merrill Hires Life Sciences Investment Banker
New York Times
Bank of America Merrill Lynch said Friday that it had hired Benjamin Perkins, the head of Pacific Growth Equities' life sciences investment banking team, .
BofA pays $33 million SEC penalty for Merrill dealMarketWatch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Names Benjamin Perkins as Managing .PR Newswire (press release)
BROKER'S WORLD:Sontag Quits While Many Merrill Brokers StuckWall Street Journal
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Societe Generale upbeat on Indian banking business (Express India)
French major Societe Generale has decided to expand its private banking operations in India. The bank plans to spread out its reach, introduce innovative products and recruit more employees...

Harris Bank Celebrates JD Power and Associates Award for Customer . - PR Newswire (press release)

Harris Bank Celebrates JD Power and Associates Award for Customer .
PR Newswire (press release)
The organization is a member of the BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), which also provides corporate and investment banking services in the US under the .

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Easing Small Players' Losses In CIT Crisis - Wall Street Journal

Boston Globe

Easing Small Players' Losses In CIT Crisis
Wall Street Journal
The complex deal also generated fees for cit's legal and investment banking advisers. The deal would have been even sweeter for cit's management and the new .
CIT Posts $1.62 Billion 2Q Loss; Credit Provisions SurgeCNNMoney.com

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Qatar- Ahli Bank-Alhilal Islamic Banking announces highest profit rates (MENAFN)
Qatar- Ahli Bank-Alhilal Islamic Banking announces highest profit rates..

Citadel Said to Plan Trading Operation for Bank Debt - Bloomberg

Citadel Said to Plan Trading Operation for Bank Debt
Bloomberg
In May, Citadel said it hired former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives to help expand into investment banking. Todd Kaplan joined in March to head the .
Citadel Aims To Build Leveraged-Loan GroupFINalternatives

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(AFX UK Focus) 2009-08-17 06:30 Barclays, SocGen get Saudi banking license -FT (Interactive Investor)
DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Barclays and Societe Generale have received investment banking licences for Saudi Arabia, the Financial Times reported on Monday, quoting the Saudi markets regulator. The Capital Markets Authority plans to allow investment groups to launch exchange traded funds before the end of the year, the FT said. It said Barclays and SocGen are in the process of setting up offices ...

Nigeria: Foreign Direct Investment Hits $14 Billion (AllAfrica.com)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Nigeria has increased from $2.1 billion in 2004 to $13.95 billion, the Minister of State for Finance Remi Babalola, has said...

Jeff Urwin, Bear Stearns' One-Time Investment Banking Guru, Chops .
Even though it took Alex Reyfman, the former head of credit derivatives research for Bear Stearns, four price cuts before he finally sold his Upper West Side co-op, he ended up getting only $540000 less than his first asking price...

FINRA Rolls Out Series 79 "Investment Banking Representative .
FINRA announced in Regulatory Notice 09-41 the new registration category for investment banking representatives. The new registration category becomes effective on November 2, 2009, when recently enacted changes to Registration Rule ...

Citadel Investment Said to Plan Trading Operation for Bank Debt (Bloomberg)
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Ken Griffin s $12 billion Citadel Investment Group LLC is trying to set up a leveraged-loan- trading unit as the market for the debt has returned 42 percent from a December low, a person familiar with the effort said...

Citadel hires former Citigroup investment banker (Crain's Chicago Business)
(Reuters) EUR” Hedge fund Citadel, which launched an investment banking group earlier this year, has hired a senior Citigroup Inc. financial institutions investment banker, a source familiar with the matter said. A Citigroup spokesman confirmed Craig Stine, a managing director in the bank's ...

Corporate Finance - The investment banking and private equity .
The investment banking and private equity landscape is changing. 08:01:42 am, Categories: Market Structure. There have been massive overcapacities in investment banking after the bursting of the real estate bubble in the US. ...

Transaction costs and Investment Banking - Strat. In
It is also not about investment banking bonuses about which lot has been written (My personal take is that much of the criticism is absolutely justified), though some inferences about the culture surrounding bonuses could be derived ...

New 5 hour exam for Investment Bankers | WallStreetOasis.com
Beginning in November, investment bankers will be required to pass a new FINRA test Limited Representative - Investment Banking (Series 79) - (Available November 2, 2009) 175 multiple choice questions; 5 hours testing time...

Ancient haven San Marino fights for banking life (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
San Marino has seen medieval intrigue and papal army invasions in its 1,708-year history, but a modern-day banking scandal and blitz on tax havens risks bringing the world's oldest republic to its knees...

Barclays, Soc Gen Get Saudi License For Investment Banking - Wall Street Journal

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Barclays, Soc Gen Get Saudi License For Investment Banking
Wall Street Journal
. and Societe Generale Saudi Arabia received Sunday licenses from the Capital Market Authority to conduct investment banking activities in the kingdom. .
Barclays, SocGen get Saudi banking license -FTReuters India
Saudi opens to Barclays and socgenFinancial Times
Saudi growth will rise to 3% in 2010GulfNews

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