Ian Bolland
HITC
United Kingdom
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Goldman settles lawsuit over Abacus payments
Goldman Sachs has settled a 2011 lawsuit claiming the investment bank fraudulently induced a bond insurer to guarantee payments on the doomed Abacus collateralized debt obligation ahead of the financial crisis. → Read More
Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley defeat appeal over Facebook IPO
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley need not forfeit their estimated $100m of profit from trading Facebook stock soon after underwriting its May 2012 initial public offering, a federal appeals court said on Thursday. → Read More
C Suisse - Margins said tanking across the private-banking business
Credit Suisse dropped the most in three months Thursday, after the bank reported a third-quarter profit sparked by one-time gains, while CEO Tidjane Thiam signaled that the outlook will remain challenging. → Read More
People News: Goldman, Deutsche, Standard Chartered
Goldman Sachs has hired Tom Leake to run EMEA equity structuring, based in London. Leake joins from Deutsche Bank where he was global head of the equity structuring group. → Read More
Deutsche Bank said to making good progress with U.S Justice Department
Deutsche Bank has made “good progress” in talks with the U.S. Justice Department to settle an investigation into its subprime-era mortgage securities business, according to management board member Christian Sewing. → Read More
UBS one of several firms said to be weighing Argentina wealth management move
UBS, Julius Baer and Grupo BTG Pactual are among banks considering a local wealth-management business in Argentina, people familiar with the matter said, as one estimate predicts the government’s tax-amnesty program could bring as much as $16bn in offshore money back to the nation. → Read More
Court hears more gory details of alleged murders
This is becoming worse than a horror film. → Read More
Pimco close to losing its bond crown
Pimco Total Return Fund, once the world’s largest mutual fund under former manager Bill Gross, is within about $1bn of being overtaken as the biggest actively run bond fund. → Read More
Standard Chartered said to part company with private equity head go, considers unit closure
Standard Chartered has parted company with the head of its private-equity business and is weighing plans to shutter the unit over the next two years, according to people familiar with the matter. → Read More
BlackRock said to explore sale of Singapore tower
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is exploring a sale of its second office tower in Singapore’s central business district, people with knowledge of the matter said. → Read More
High Speed traders proving more attractive than banks
'The future is HFT, it’s like a superstar in the finance world'. → Read More
JPMorgan makes changes to equities team
JPMorgan announced a series of promotions at its equities trading business on Wednesday, including appointing Paul Brannan and Jonathan Cossey as global co-heads of prime brokerage. → Read More
Deutsche Bank to be among hardest hit by capital rules
Deutsche Bank is among roughly a dozen large European lenders that face higher capital requirements when new banking rules come into force in the coming years, several sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. → Read More
Wall Street may try new scheme to attract wiz kid employees
Ask a bright 20-something graduate where he or she wants to work and chances are they will tell you Google. That’s a far cry from before the global banking meltdown when whiz kids saw a career on Wall Street as a badge of honour → Read More
Suspect said identified in murder of banker in South Africa
The chief suspect in the murder of a British banker found tortured and strangled in South Africa is reportedly a woman he invited into his apartment the night before. → Read More
Hedge funds swapping people for technology
Losses at Leda Braga’s computer-driven hedge fund this year are running at about twice the level suffered by a macro fund run by billionaire Alan Howard. Yet, while Braga has raised money, investors have pulled billions of dollars from Howard’s fund. → Read More
Ex-BlackRock manager pleads guilty to insider trading
Mark Lyttleton, a former high-profile BlackRock portfolio manager, pleaded guilty to two counts of insider trading in a London court. → Read More
UBS set for best year in Middle Eastern M&A
UBS’s investment banking business is set to have its best year advising on Middle Eastern deals in at least a decade as the firm’s new strategy in the region pays off. → Read More
Standard Charted spooks markets
Standard Chartered roiled credit markets in Europe on Tuesday, when the bank broke with convention by saying it wouldn’t buy back its junior bonds at the first opportunity. → Read More
Court hears banker ordered food for murder victim
British investment banker Rurik Jutting acted rationally before and after he killed two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment, ordering food for one victim and calling his mother after the killings, the prosecution said on Wednesday. → Read More