Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After a frenetic period during the post Covid-19 bubble, investment banking business in Hong Kong has pretty much collapsed. The bread-and-butter business of taking Chinese companies public in Hong Kong or the US screeched to […]
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Will any bank pay good bonuses for this year? This is the current state of play at some of the major firms. Bank of America bonuses Bank of America hasn’t said much publicly about its plans for bonuses this year. Internally, there are fears that the bank’s commitment not to make broad staff cuts but
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The financing signed represents the first tranche of 450 million euros of the 500 million total approved by the European Investment Bank (EIB) Board of Directors for the operation with Iveco Group. The EIB financing is aimed at the development of cutting-edge technologies for the electrification, efficiency and safety of the transport sector. The investments
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A challenging operating environment, given the subdued industry-wide corporate debt and equity issuances and deal-making activities, will keep hampering the Zacks Investment Bank industry’s prospects. Hence, these are expected to adversely impact the top-line growth. Yet, heightened client activity in the trading business is expected to continue as the uncertainty-induced volatility is likely to persist
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Good morning. Looks like this won’t be the year of big Wall Street bonuses. An industry analysis released on Tuesday by Johnson Associates, Inc., a New York-based compensation consulting firm, finds bankers’ bonuses will decline or be mostly flat. But there are some exceptions, like high-performing wealth management professionals, who are in high demand. A
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kate Shiber wondered why there was so much hurry-up-and-wait in investment banking. “I would really appreciate if we could strategise how we/I can be more efficient earlier in the day,” she wrote in an August
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Analysis of the latest AidData Belt and Road Initiative report By Chris Devonshire-Ellis China’s financial institutions have lent US$1.34 trillion to developing countries from 2000 to 2021, according to a new report by the U.S. research facility AidData. In this article I unpack what AidData have said – and combine that with China’s own
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The advice to business owners looking to exit is often to get the right advisers and plan well ahead of going to market. But for many, that’s not always the reality. “We deal with the business owners that don’t get to talk to these guys,” says Christopher Riley, CEO of United Cutwater. “We deal with
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