INVESTMENT BANKING popularity and INVESTMENT BANKING trends

MORGAN Stanley's Australian investment banking business has broken the trend of declining profits across the local industry.

NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel ordered investment banking boutique Advanced Equities Inc to pay $4.5 million in damages and other costs...

The Royal Bank of Scotland has admitted that "expensive" plans to ring-fence its retail operations from the more risky investment banking arm will see the bank pass on costs to business and household customers.

LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC beat expectations with an underlying first-quarter profit of $6.8 billion as Europe's biggest bank saw a rebound in investment banking, growth in Asia and a fall in U.S. bad debts.

HSBC said that its investment banking division and emerging-market operations helped boost underlying profit in the first quarter, although net profit fell due to an accounting charge.

HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, beat expectations with an underlying profit of almost $7 billion (€4.9 billion) in the first quarter thanks to a rebound in investment banking income and a fall in US bad debts.

Clampdowns on pay and tougher disclosure rules diminish the appeal of investment banking and foster disillusionment as the flow of M&A deals slows to a trickle

Office in Abu Dhabi to oversee investment banking and asset management services for clients

The Government will use the monarch’s annual address to reveal its plans to implement recommendations made by Sir John Vickers’s Independent Commission on Banking.

Strong manufacturing numbers helped quiet investors’ concerns about a slowdown in the domestic economy and boosted the Dow to its highest level since Dec. 31, 2007 in intraday trading. The Dow eclipsed its previous high of 13,301 from April 2, and traded as high as 13,339. The index has cooled a bit and was more [...]

Traditional investment banking isn't Macquarie Group's strength these days.

First-quarter results from investment banking arms show they are faring better than regional peers – or, at least, not as badly, for now

Deutsche Bank reports a sharp fall in profits, in part due to weaker performance in investment banking during the eurozone debt crisis.

Peruvian financial services group Credicorp announced that it will acquire a 60.6% stake in Chile's IM Trust, confirming market rumors. The deal is valued at some 3.5% of Credicorp's net equity, or...

"In the Studio" has a special segment this week, hosting a Valley entrepreneur who grew up on the East Coast, studied at an Ivy League school, was lured to Wall Street, and eventually decided to leave the pinstriped suits behind to start building his own startup, eventually finding his cofounder via Facebook, moonlighting as an entrepreneur after the markets closed in NYC, and is now helping ru...

NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) - UBS AG's head of investment banking for the Americas, Aryeh Bourkoff, resigned to pursue other opportunities only 13 months after taking on the position, according to...

CITIGROUP reported improved first-quarter earnings yesterday, with steady growth in the bank’s globe-spanning consumer businesses and a rebound in investment banking from a poor previous quarter.

Shanghai-born Jimmy Du,at the age of 24, gave up a career in investment banking in Australia to concentrate on what once was his sideline.

Global investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs which held its first ever board meet in India last week has said that it would like to grow its business here in line with the growing economy.

They say the best inspiration for starting a company is to build something you personally want. Well, it says something about the current state of Silicon Valley that a recent Web start-up trend is personal wealth management.

Goldman Sachs Group has begun a new round of staff cuts in its trading and investment banking divisions, three sources familiar with the matter said, a sign of continued cutbacks on Wall Street.

Trading volume is anemic. Bonuses are down. Investment banking activity is sluggish. But instead of singing a requiem for Wall Street, investors are treating the big banks like they are rock stars.

SBI is studying a viability report prepared by its investment banking arm, SBI capital markets, and any decision on further lending will be based on that.

The huge bonus pool includes a £390million pool for its 17,000 investment banking staff. The overall loss is almost double the £1.1billion figure posted the previous year by the state-funded bank.

Sir Philip Hampton says bank needs to be run on commercial grounds if taxpayers are to get their £45bn investment backRoyal Bank of Scotland pleaded on Thursday to be run on a commercial basis as the taxpayer-owned bank announced losses widened to £2bn in 2011, and confirmed it paid out £390m in bonuses to investment bankers.Sir Philip Hampton, appointed chairman after the October 2008 bailout,...

ISLAMABAD - Former governor of State Bank of Pakistan, Salim Raza on Wednesday said that debt markets in Pakistan are shallow as well as small with less than 5 per cent of the primary banking market whereas bank deposits are 30 percent of GDP. He said this while delivering a lecture on “Financial Sector Reforms: Deepening and Widening the Pakistan’s Financial Sector” at the ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The eurozone debt crisis took its toll on Germany's Deutsche Bank and its investment banking businesses, sending fourth-quarter net profits down 69 percent to euro186 million ($245.06 million)....

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's profit fell 56 percent in the fourth quarter but easily beat analysts' estimates during a weak period for investment banking revenue.

Bank blames lower investment banking income, an accounting charge and a decline in the value of its assets.

JP Morgan Chase reports lower fourth-quarter profits, hit by weaker trading at its investment banking division.

A small plane crashed onto a busy New Jersey highway Tuesday morning, leaving all five people on board dead, officials said. The plane burst into flames after it went down on Route 287 near exit 34 in Morris County just after 10 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. New Jersey State Police said all five onboard and a dog were killed in the crash. State trooper Christopher Kay ...

Why would a guy of Corzine's stature and accomplishment, having reached the pinnacle of power in investment banking, and a big ticket political seat to round out the resume, risk it all? Apparently, Jon Corzine has something to prove.