Investment banks
Nomura boosts New York leveraged finance team
Normura Securities North America appoints Julie Persily and Steven Seltzer as co-heads of leveraged finance and Alexis Lasser as head of private capital markets, Americas.
Jain takes sole charge at Deutsche Bank
Move puts Anshu Jain in pole position to succeed Josef Ackermann.
Crédit Agricole adds five to fixed income in Hong Kong
Crédit Agricole has bolstered its fixed-income team in Asia with five sales and trading hires
Winters named on UK Banking Commission
Former JP Morgan investment bank co-chief is one of five to decide on the future of UK banking
Lehman reorganisation plan not “equitable” – LBIE
Plans by Lehman Brothers Holding Inc (LBHI) to disregard guarantee claims from its affiliates are not fair, according to one of the joint administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE).
LBIE paid out $17.2 billion to date to creditors
Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE) has collected more than $48.6 billion of assets and cash up until March 14, and $17.2 billion has been distributed to creditors, according to a progress report by the administrators of LBIE, published on…
Dealing with disputes
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UK Treasury releases investment bank insolvency report
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No more investment banks, says SEC
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Remaining investment firms become Fed-regulated banks
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Stuck on structures
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HSBC CIBM creates European corporate liability group
HSBC Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (CIBM) has established a European corporate liability solutions group, headed by Russell Schofield-Bezer.
HSBC launches climate change indexes
HSBC's Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets division (CIBM) has launched an index to track the stock market performance of companies that stand to profit from the challenges posed by climate change, alongside four investable sub-indexes.
Risk Into Value
Investment firms have plenty to consider in the race to achieve Basel II and operational risk mandates.
The ultimate stress-test: modelling the next liquidity crisis
What would happen if one of the world's largest investment banks pulled out of derivatives? Risk managers at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase are already building this scenario into their stress-tests, and regulators want other banks to do the same.
US investment banks create myriad problems for Basel II
NEW YORK - As financial institutions and banking regulators settle down to the challenge of implementing Basel II, a substantial problem has emerged for US investment banks.