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Bankers and Buyout Bosses on the Ballot

These are not the best of times, reputationally speaking, for the nation’s captains of high finance. And then there is Peter Schiff, the founder of the Connecticut brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital, who has joined a crowd of Republicans (including ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Peter Schiff,  U.S. Republican Party,  Linda McMahon,  Christopher J. Dodd,  Jon Corzine

Macquarie to Buy Fox-Pitt Kelton

Macquarie Group, the Australian banking giant, continued its United States expansion Wednesday with an agreement to buy the boutique investment banking firm Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller. Macquarie said in a statement it would buy Fox-Pitt, ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Tim Bishop,  Bank of America,  Merrill Lynch

F.D.I.C. Says Bank Failures Will Cost $100 Billion

Federal regulators said Tuesday they expect bank failures to cost the deposit insurance fund about $100 billion in the next four years, much higher than the earlier estimate of $70 billion in failure costs through 2013. The Federal Deposit Insurance ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,  United States Department of the Treasury,  Sheila Bair

World Bank Chief Questions Greater Fed Powers

As Washington considers rewriting the rules of the road on Wall Street, the head of the World Bank is raising questions about whether the Federal Reserve should be given additional oversight powers. Instead, Robert B. Zoellick, the president of the ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: World Bank,  Robert Zoellick,  Federal Reserve,  Goldman Sachs,  Johns Hopkins University

UBS Client Enters Guilty Plea in Tax Case

A wealthy UBS private banking client who owns a building material company in New Jersey pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion, the fourth American caught in a widening investigation into the giant Swiss bank over its offshore services. Juergen Homann, ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  U.S. Department of Justice

Stampede to Business School Eases

A year later, the picture is a bit different. While aspiring bankers and would-be C.E.O.s continue to apply to M.B.A. programs in large numbers, there are signs that the rush to the quad may be easing. On Thursday, the Graduate Management Admission ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  24 Sep 2009

A Powerful Woman in Banking Keeps Her Grip

Wall Street may have been utterly rearranged by the financial crisis, but at least one thing has remained constant: Heidi Miller of JPMorgan Chase has kept her position at the top of U.S. Banker’s and American Banker’s list of the 25 most powerful ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,  Morgan Stanley,  Citigroup,  Priceline.com

Bullish Signs From the Hedge Fund Crowd?

Hedge funds, those pools of capital reserved for institutional investors and the wealthy, have steadily been increasing their bullish bets on stocks, and especially shares of financial firms, which took such a beating in last fall’s crisis. The data, ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Goldman Sachs,  Bank of America,  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Thain's Regret: Not Shopping at Ikea

These days, many of the choices made in Wall Street’s boom times are getting a second look. For John Thain, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch, that includes some soul-searching on the subject of interior decorating. We’re pretty sure he was ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, Dealbook,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: John A. Thain,  Merrill Lynch,  Bank of America

DealBook: AMR Gets $2.9 Billion in New Liquidity

AMR, the parent of American Airlines, said Thursday that it secured $2.9 billion in additional liquidity by agreeing to sell its frequent-flyer program to Citigroup and securing new loans and a sale-leaseback agreement from a unit of General ...

From PETER EDMONSTON, The New York Times,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: American Airlines,  Boeing,  Citigroup,  General Electric

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