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The Dutch bank’s future as a standalone bank is once again in question.
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WeWork’s debut in the high-yield bond market was helped by investors effectively turning a blind eye to its costs of sales.
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It has taken a while, but a corner has been turned.
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Asset management is the hottest sub-sector in FIG investment banking in Europe. Even banks with successful in-house asset managers are thinking hard how to adapt, and must act fast.
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Why aren’t firms putting their money where Xi Jinping’s mouth is?
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An unusual move by a US regulator threatens to widen a conflict over potential manipu-lation of Hovnanian default swaps by Blackstone’s credit arm GSO.
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If the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does decide to weigh in on the issue of whether or not Blackstone’s trading in Hovnanian debt and default swaps constitutes market manipulation, it will revive questions about SEC chairman Jay Clayton’s ties to Goldman Sachs.
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The country has blown its chances with its monetary mess.
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Christian Sewing has been painted as the stern cost disciplinarian and man of action, so he had to unveil something decisive-sounding at his first results call — even if it smacks of tokenism
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Banks are proving so slow to collaborate on blockchain protocols that could reduce costs in financial markets that it almost looks as if they wish to profit from persistent inefficiency.
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Bloodbath at AMP and the crowdfunding of startup Xinja are signs of new era.
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Jes Staley gets to stay in his job, but his difficulties don't end with one investigation
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Countries are queueing to accept Chinese lending for Belt and Road infrastructure projects. But could that borrowing come back to bite them – and China?
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As many banks CEOs, especially in Europe, are still struggling to make their institutions profitable, could it be that turning to the chief risk officer can be part of the solution?
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel took to the stage at Gujarat National Law University on March 14 to make a simple request...
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Have the vision. Create the plan. Go and do it.
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Recent conversations with bankers and economists in Brazil have been confusing – sometimes it is hard to believe that both groups are talking about the same country.
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As direct lending funds continue their advance, certain banks are also making waves in mid-market lending.
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The likely recommendations from Australia’s investigations are changes that should have been made years ago.
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Asia has so much to build and yet it doesn’t seem to be involved.
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The French group seems both destined for dominance and predisposed to failure.
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The disappearance of the chair of CEFC China Energy throws doubts on its European acquisition spree.
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ECM bankers look safer from automation than their DCM colleagues, whatever Spotify might be up to.
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Stock market ups and downs over the last two years reveal a new line-up of possible big bank buyers in the eurozone. If they wait for balance sheet clean-ups and government sell-downs, they may have to up their bids.
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The cat is out of the bag: the public is aware that if you want to stop something, you have to stop the financing. Right now in the US, that something is guns.
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A sale of NEX will generate close to a billion dollars for brokerage founder Spencer. Will it also bring him closer to the aristocratic title he craves?
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If Michael Spencer manages to sell NEX at a price that places a high value on its core FX and electronic bond dealing platform, he will have pulled off an impressive slow-motion brokerage trade.