Investment Banks

18 Feb 2013

Investment banks in the United States are increasingly embracing so-called block trades - direct purchases of large chunks of company shares for resale - which are seen by some as a risky and even...

Deutsche Bank's €2b loss is 8 times analysts' estimates

31 Jan 2013

The bank's co-chief executives, Juergen Fitschen and Anshu Jain, are restructuring operations and bolstering capital levels, the lowest among Europe's biggest investment banks, in their first year...

Big banks fail to regain trust of the public

24 Jan 2013

Leaders of the world's biggest banks, from Citigroup's Vikram Pandit to Barclays' Bob Diamond, have failed to honour promises made in Davos to restore trust in their industry after the financial...

Investors cheer as Goldman Sachs keeps lid on pay

18 Jan 2013

Goldman Sachs, the securities firm that set a compensation record on Wall Street in 2007, is now demonstrating how little it can pay.

You can bet on it

13 Dec 2012

It's all about timing, especially in one key area of investment-fuelled Hong Kong: the property sector. So what's the best time to dive in?

Opinion

Alex Lo

Relaxing maids' live-in rule means less room for conflict

Peter Kammerer

In Hong Kong, affordability is off the menu

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Era ends for mega mainland IPOs

The initial public offering of People's Insurance Co (Group) of China last week was notable as Hong Kong's largest in two years. Bankers still do not anticipate it augurs a new round of big share...

Relative gains

Families join forces to grow wealth, writes Andrea Li.

Private equity gambling

Private-equity investors in China may have to worry about their reputations among mainland entrepreneurs, thanks to several unhappy cases of private equity investments that seemed more like...

BANKING

Wall St bankers in line for poor 2012 bonuses

Wall Street banks are deflating their employees' pay expectations to avoid a replay of last year when cutbacks on bonuses and increased deferrals surprised bankers and traders.

LISTINGS

Firms see bankers as key to listing success

The more, the better. That seems to be the motto of companies looking to launch share offerings these days, with many of them lining up dozens of underwriters, compared with the four or five...

LAWSUITS

Chinese investment institutions remain silent over Libor lawsuits

As lawsuits mount from aggrieved parties in the Libor scandal, one party is keeping tight-lipped: Chinese investment institutions that are wary of revealing too much about their dealings.