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Jefferies battles rumors
You have to feel for Jefferies CEO Richard Handler, who has watched and listened with chagrin as the company's stock price tumbled and as rumors mounted. This is an uncomfortable positioned to be in,
Hedge funds ease grip on prime brokerages
Not too long ago, in the wake of the financial crisis and implosion of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the angst was palpable when it came to counterparty risk. Many hedge funds responded by
Wall Street cuts philanthropic giving
Say what you want about Bear Stearns, but there was one area where the bank was truly right: It's advocacy of executive giving to charity. No other top bank required its executives to donate a set
Do short selling restrictions work?
Recall that at the height of the financial crisis, executives of the doomed Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns blamed short sellers for decimating their stock. While some considered this an absurd
Director's of failed banks suffer little consequence
Where were the directors? Fairly or not, that's been a big question in the aftermath of the financial crisis. You cannot blame people for pondering what steps the directors were taking as the likes
Why Gary Cohn won't succeed Blankfein at GS
The great guessing game as to who will succeed Lloyd Blankfein as the next CEO of Goldman Sachs has re-ignited. We've maintained that Blankfein cannot leave until he can do so without media chatter
Prime brokerage business is hot, as banks woo hedge funds
This may be ann indication that the good times are returning to Wall Street: Top banks are once again actively wooing hedge funds and private equity funds with increasingly favorable credit offers.
A different Bear Stearns decision might have meant more charges
There's no question that the Raj Rajaratnam insider trading conviction means a lot to a federal prosecutor. The government now has the wind at its back in its efforts to prosecute and try others. For
Columnist takes Jamie Dimon to task
Jamie Dimon perhaps is no longer the Teflon CEO he once appeared to be. A Yahoo columnist would like to stick him with consequences of his call in a recent speech at the Chamber of Commerce for
Bank of America to pay bankers more in cash
For the top Wall Street executives, deferred pay, heavy on stock options or restricted stock, is still the way to go. Boards do not want to roil the regulators on pay issues right now. The message
