Top Investment Banking News for 12/30/2008



Stockguru.com: Stocks to Watch for December 30, 2008 - NHLD, HSSO . - Trading Markets (press release)

Stockguru.com: Stocks to Watch for December 30, 2008 - NHLD, HSSO .
Trading Markets (press release), CA - 5 hours ago
The three principal lines of business of the broker-dealers are offering full service retail brokerage; providing investment banking, merger, .
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Ambac Financial, Huntington . - Reuters

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Ambac Financial, Huntington .
Reuters - Dec 29, 2008
About Zacks Zacks.com is a property of Zacks Investment Research, Inc., which was formed in 1978 by Leonard Zacks. As a PhD in mathematics Len knew he could .
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Three Investment Firms Seek to Purchase IndyMac (Fox News)
A trio of private investors -- J.C. Flowers & Co., Dune Capital Management and Paulson & Co. -- have teamed up in an effort to buy failed thrift IndyMac, a person familiar with the deal said Monday...

20 pct securities firms predicted losses in investment banking .
Some 20 percent of security companies in China expected that their investment banking business would suffer losses this year, according to a survey result issued by the Securities Times recently...

RIBA CAPITAL: ::: Reshaping Kenya's Banking Industry:::
This follows hot on the heels on NIC's acquisition of a 55% majority stake in Solid Securities at the end of 2007 and the subsequent formation of NIC Capital its Investment banking and Stock broking arm. NIC is on an expansionist ...

Dragonfly finds deals in alternative energy (BizJournals)
Investment-banking boutique Dragonfly Capital is growing its alternative-energy practice...

Ickman's blog: The Weekend Investment Banking Died
The Weekend Investment Banking Died. The Wall Street Journal has an article recounting the weekend that Lehman failed, Merrill was sold, and Goldman, Sachs and Morgan Stanley became commercial banks. Inside Wall Street stuff. ...

Marginal Revolution: The future of investment banking
Ok, I'll tell you the future of investment banking. I've said it before - and I suspect this won't be the last time I say it - the great investment banks will be reborn in about oh, 18-24 months time. ...

subprime mortgage lenders: Subprime mortgage Banksruptcy of Lehman .
The following day, Nomura announced it's intentions to acquire Lehman Brothers' Investment Banking and equities businesses in Europe and the Middle East. A few weeks later it was announced that conditions to the deal had been met, ...

UBS Further Slims Down Investment-Banking Arm - Wall Street Journal

UBS Further Slims Down Investment-Banking Arm
Wall Street Journal - Dec 22, 2008
UBS will now only run a precious metals and exchange-traded commodities arm, part of a dramatic reduction of investment banking under unit head Jerker .
UBS further trims investment banking business Wealth Bulletin
JPMorgan buys UBS Canadian commodities unit Globe and Mail
UBS sells some commodities businesses to JP Morgan Reuters
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Comment: How to make banks popular again (eFinancial News)
The investment banking business has an image problem. Battered by billions of dollars in write-offs, tens of thousands of job losses, and the humiliation of having to go cap in hand to governments to keep some of them afloat, the reputation of a profession that once seemed among the most glamorous in the world has taken something of a nosedive in 2008...

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-30 08:17 Credit Suisse, Founder Securities jv approved to launch ops in China (Interactive Investor)
BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Credit Suisse said its joint venture with Founder Securities has been approved by Chinese regulators to launch investment banking services in China...

Investment Banking Blues
Last week's issue of The Economist cites some sobering figures about the investment banking sector. Data from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Thomson Reuters indicate that revenues were down by over 75% in the ...

Citigroup to merge corporate, investment banking-source - Reuters

Reuters

Citigroup to merge corporate, investment banking-source
Reuters - Dec 17, 2008
In 2004, a global banking group was created, although client coverage for corporate and investment banking remained separate. For many of its clients over .
Citigroup to combine investment and corporate banking businesses Banking Business Review
Citigroup to merge investment, corporate banking operations . RTT News
Citi to Merge Two Divisions: Reports TheStreet.com
InvestmentNews - MarketWatch
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Azeroth Investment Banking 12/29 | The WoW Economist
Posted on 2008 under Azeroth Investment Banking |. 29 Dec. I hope you guys had a good holiday. If you are at all like me, you had an abbreviated market presence in WoW these week. I was out of town during the weekend and forgot to bring ...

Banking: Takeovers, layoffs mean leaner times (The Charlotte Observer)
(By Christina Rexrode, crexrode@charlotteobserver.com) It was a dreadful year for the banking industry, and next year won't be much better. There were numerous casualties in 2008, including the authority of the free market and the once-celebrated system of traditional investment banking. Storied firms that helped shape Wall Street failed, were taken over by the government or were sold, ...

American Apparel Shares Hit New Low as It Names CFO - Wall Street Journal

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American Apparel Shares Hit New Low as It Names CFO
Wall Street Journal - 17 hours ago
Mr. Kowalewski started his career in investment banking at CIBC World Markets' mergers and acquisitions division. He also worked at Houlihan Lokey Howard .
American Apparel Names Adrian Kowalewski Chief Financial Officer Reuters
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Directors of Investment Banking & Financing - jobs from exec .
Directors of Investment Banking & Financing - Various locations - Outstanding Compensation...

Buffett's Biography: Is Goldman Sachs the New Salomon Brothers? - Seeking Alpha

Buffett's Biography: Is Goldman Sachs the New Salomon Brothers?
Seeking Alpha, NY - Dec 28, 2008
Both investment banking acquisitions were completely out-of-line with normal Buffett thinking, except the mantra to buy when stock prices are low. .
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'There will be more deals in the mid-market space' - Business Standard

Business Standard

'There will be more deals in the mid-market space'
Business Standard, India - 20 hours ago
Sanjay Sakhuja, managing director of the home-grown investment banking firm, spoke to Abhineet Kumar in an interview on the challenges M&As will face in .
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Islamic Banking Set to Emerge as a $4 Trillion Industry (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI - Islamic banking, which is predicted to become a $4 trillion global industry over the next five years, is the least affected sector in the current global economic meltdown triggered by subprime tsunami in the United States, experts said...

It is said that the Serbian banking sector resisted the crisis only because it is small and, consequently, isolated. . (B92)
Our banking sector is in no sense isolated, considering the fact that 75 per cent of our bank ownership is in the hands of strategic investors from the European Union...

Storybook year ends in economic nightmare - Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

Storybook year ends in economic nightmare
Calgary Herald,  Canada - 4 hours ago
Finally, the world witnessed the collapse of the investment banking industry, a key cog in the workings of the financial sector that had withstood the crash .
Wall Street's walking wounded seek clarity AsiaOne
The Weekend That Wall Street Died Wall Street Journal Blogs
Nation & world business news briefs Detroit Free Press
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EPFOs hunt for new bankers continues. (Express India)
Nine months after the Finance and Investment Committee of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation called for abolishing the State Bank of India's 56-year monopoly on its banking business, the government is still working out the nitty-gritties of what switching to multiple bankers will entail...

Intl banking cooperation yields fruitful results (Philippine News Agency)
HANOI, Dec. 30 (PNA/VNA) - The banking sector has expanded international cooperation over the past year and reaped many benefits, particularly helping raise Vietnams position in the international financial community, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)...

Credit Suisse gets permit for China securities JV (China Daily)
Credit Suisse Group, the second-largest Swiss bank, said it has received a business permit allowing its China investment banking venture with the country's Founder Securities Co to start operation...

Deutsche Hires Ex-Goldman Banker Takushi Abe in Japan - Bloomberg

Deutsche Hires Ex-Goldman Banker Takushi Abe in Japan
Bloomberg - Dec 28, 2008
29 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG hired Takushi Abe, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., as a senior adviser at its investment banking .
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Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2008 Earnings . - Earthtimes (press release)

Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2008 Earnings .
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 20 hours ago
. of Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. are Midwest Bank and Trust Company and Midwest Financial and Investment Services, Inc. Midwest has 29 banking offices. .
Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2008 Earnings . International Business Times
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