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Britain’s Labour Party is coming for the low tax enjoyed by private equity managers. There will be overcooked threats of executive flight and a loss...
Rachel Reeves and her Labour party economics and finance team have two challenges: Winning power, and then getting enough done quickly to have a...
This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges...
Sergio Ermotti has made it clear he would only lead UBS Group AG in his second stint as chief executive officer for the time it took to absorb Credit...
Sir Alex Ferguson’s 26 years managing English football club Manchester United won him worldwide fame for success and leadership. He even became a...
Regulation of banking in the US is often highly political – and politics can be grubby. The recent debate over the leadership of the Federal Deposit...
Investors in Barclays Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc voted overwhelmingly to scrap UK bonus caps for investment bankers and traders at their annual...
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA has gone hostile in its pursuit of smaller Spanish rival Banco de Sabadell SA in a highly unusual move both for...
One shocking thing about the independent review into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s workplace misconduct and culture is that it seems...
The big question for UBS Group AG shareholders is how badly its share buyback promises will be knocked by the Swiss government’s desire to pursue...
If Stafford Beer is remembered at all today, it’s for a luckless cameo trying to help President Salvadore Allende run Chile’s newly nationalized...
Shareholders in Banco de Sabadell SA pondering the takeover offer from Spanish rival Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA shouldn’t think too hard....
Changing the fortunes of a bank the size of HSBC Holdings Plc is like trying to turn an oil tanker. In Noel Quinn’s nearly five years as chief...
Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA and Deutsche Bank Group AG have all made big promises about the growth to come from their investment banks as part of...
Since Silicon Valley Bank became the second-biggest failure in US history a year ago, other lenders have been trying to take its place in banking the...
When the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with cash during the Covid-19 pandemic it exacerbated a problem for America’s largest banks: What to do...
Dealmaking is back! At least that’s what it looks like after the big five US investment banks reported a 27% increase in first-quarter fees from...
Most people were barely aware that OpenAI existed 18 months ago. Now, ChatGPT is among the most desired tools for businesses everywhere. But as...
UBS Group AG had hoped that the Swiss government wouldn’t make onerous demands for more capital in the wake of its hyper-profitable rescue of Credit...
Stock markets in 2020 and 2021 exhibited way more than their fair share of stupid. There was the incredible rally in shares of Hertz Global Holdings...
Get your rumpled raincoat and trilby, there’s a case to crack! Investors are hiring private investigators to help them track the performance of...
Big banks are scrambling to work out what to do with generative artificial intelligence: how to use it to make some of their people smarter or free up...
The US credit card industry is desperate to head off an effort in Congress to slash the lucrative swipe fees charged on every transaction. It’s...
Two knockout stock-market debuts by tech companies last week will boost confidence among others waiting for their chance to go public – and lift the...
The collapse of Credit Suisse Group AG was a shock, but it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. Years of bad strategy and poor management...
It’s a year since the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank – and the renewed cries of “never again.” Almost instantly began...
New York Community Bancorp Inc. has found itself a life preserver, but it has yet to get itself out of the sea. The troubled regional lender won a $1...
The hits keep coming for New York Community Bancorp: What matters now is how its depositors react to the spreading dumpster fire. Nervousness among...
Barclays Plc struck a $1.1 billion deal with Blackstone Inc. this week to offload risks in its US credit-card business while still managing the...
The sense of impending doom in commercial property is almost inescapable in the US and Europe, but evidence of actual disaster is scant. Real estate...
New York Community Bancorp Inc. is being touted as a canary in the coalmine for a dangerous crisis in commercial property lending. It isn’t really...
UBS Group AG Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti is desperate to restore the Swiss bank’s reputation for consistent, generous cash returns as...
Brian Kelly is The Points Guy, a pioneer in the cottage industry that helps credit card users get the most out of airmiles and other rewards. He got...
US investment banks are worried they will lose their competitive edge globally if proposed capital increases get pushed through. Some European rivals...
Swiss banking is having another stomach-churning moment, but this one at least is only an embarrassing rather than existential event. Julius Baer...
David Viniar is a highly respected former executive who knows Goldman Sachs Group Inc. inside out. He should do: He worked there for more than three...
Everyone agrees that Deutsche Bank AG has little chance of executing a big bank takeover in anything like the near term. There are lots of hurdles:...
Time is tight for the Federal Reserve’s effort to redraw US bank capital rules, but they shouldn’t rush the job. The better course would be to...
It was supposed to be a new day at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley. Both Wall Street firms set out on their fourth-quarter earnings calls...
For all the talk of soft landings, things still look pretty bumpy for Citigroup Inc. It stood out among four big US banks Friday by reporting a...
Investment bankers must at times bore themselves with their talk of “strong pipelines” and “active conversations,” the ever-present...
“You can be a straight talker without being an unpleasant person,” Jane Fraser told a CNN interviewer in 2018, long before she became...
Cevian Capital AB’s $1.3 billion bet on UBS Group AG is unusual in more ways than one. The Stockholm-based investment firm is typically a quiet...
The extraordinary hype around artificial intelligence this year touched the finance industry, too, but most banks have been rightly cautious about...
The fight against money laundering, terror finance and tax dodging has made big demands on banks for years – and regulators have punished them...
Big central banks are going to keep shrinking their balance sheets next year, pulling money out of the financial system, even if the fight against...
The rapid rise of funds that make loans directly to buyout deals and other highly indebted companies — known as private credit — is among the...