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From drilling to generation, the energy business has been a positive powerhouse of corporate activity, driven by high oil prices or the forces of consolidation. Dresdner Kleinwort's utilities and natural [...]

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp., the parent company of Bryn Mawr Trust Co. in Philadelphia, has announced that it will offer a nonproprietary separately managed account platform. The platform is to [...]

Byline: Babcock & Brown Babcock & Brown has completed the financing of the Trans Bay Cable project, a new HVDC transmission line that will run under the San Francisco Bay. [...]

J.H. Chapman Group, L.L.C., the food industry's leading investment banking firm, provides the highest quality financial advisory services for divestitures, acquisitions, financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. The firm [...]

'It is far too early to call for the demise of private equity' Is this the top of the market for private equity? The media certainly thinks so, jumping on [...]

The gospel according to Ospel UBS falls from grace ROGER FEDERER has won again at Wimbledon and the Swiss yacht Alinghi retained the Americas Cup. But another Swiss phenomenon, UBS, [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Metrocities Mortgage LLC, a residential mortgage originator, has completed a strategic investment from private equity fund group Sterling Partners and become part of the newly formed Prospect [...]

Goldman Sachs issued a rare note on the Tribune Co. evaluating the possible auction outcomes that have been floating around in the press. Goldman Sachs' investment division, which is separate [...]

Despite the odd nervous shudder running through the market, shares have held up well to suggest that no one really believed the Bank of England was about to raise rates […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued lighter sanctions than usual on a broker/dealer and two executives of the firm who voluntarily underwent efforts to remediate. The Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

Printers looking to expand now have two more financing options after the launch of asset-based lending services by investment bank Investec and accountant Menzies. Menzies Active Finance has been set [...]

Private banking today is a more challenging business than ever before, and most large financial institutions are allocating a significant portion of their resources to serving the needs of private [...]

Investment banks like to boast of the seamless service, the multi-skilled capacity they offer their clients. Sadly, given the competitive landscape they inhabit, they do not always get the opportunity [...]

When they need financial advice, help with a merger or acquisition, or capital to fund business expansion, insurance industry companies frequently employ the services of investment bankers. With that in [...]

The Schroders multi-manager team has added Goldman Sachs dynamic opportunities - the biggest London-listed hedge fund of funds - to all three of its multi-manager portfolios. Dynamic global opportunities is […]

With gas prices climbing and a think-green mindset sweeping the country, electric car start-up Tesla Motors seems to have timed its debut well. The company, which has attracted some of [...]

Polestar Group is attempting to secure a vital debt refinancing deal amid reports that Investcorp is no longer prepared to provide financial support for the print firm. The company's future [...]

The already red-hot financial exchange sector last week saw three more deals that, although small in dollar volume, could alter the landscape in equities, futures and credit derivatives. On Thursday, [...]

The Allianz Bric stars fund is backed by an experienced team and in- house research system which has given it a competitive edge in an unproven market Given the huge […]

Most investment banks are taking pains to draw sharp lines between their advisory business and principal investment activities. Real estate investment, however, so far has been an exception. That exception [...]

Move over, bridge loans. Make way for bridge equity. Though Lehman Brothers' real estate group-widely credited with originating the technique-first used it more than three years ago, competitors have begun [...]

COEUR D'ALENE, ID. A representative from investment banking firm Stephens Inc. delivered a cautiously optimistic outlook for the trucking industry at the 23rd annual meeting of the Truckload Carrier Assn. [...]

Era of easy money is over for private equity in the energy sector Some private equity funds, worried that the increasingly crowded merchant power sector is losing its ability to [...]

J.H. Chapman Group, L.L.C., the food industry's leading investment banking firm, provides the highest quality financial advisory services for divestitures, acquisitions, financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. The firm [...]

Business Capital Corporation (BCC) is a financial advisory firm that provides M&A and business valuation consulting services to middle market food companies. As an active member in the International Network [...]

Good results are not always good news. At least, they do not always generate good news. Goldman Sachs' Q1 results blew away every prediction. Earnings were up 62% on the [...]

Managers of two of the longest running investment trusts took the opportunity of the Queen's 80th birthday to look back on eight decades of returns. Star investment trust managers Alastair [...]

Despite not securing Unicredit's Securities Services business this February and losing out to Societe Generale, Tim Keaney, executive vice president and head of Europe at the Bank of New York [...]

With the explosive growth of private equity funds in the past decade, a number of these financially astute firms have become key players in the fashion and retail worlds, involved [...]

CBA Commercial has a mission: to standardize and transform the market for smaller commercial mortgage loans. The two-year-old specialty finance firm, which buys and repackages these 'small balance' loans into [...]

Diversification seems to be this year's buzzword. With lenders such as Alliance & Leicester planning to move into sub-prime, near-prime, self- cert and buy to let later this year, the […]

Guy Anker looks at the effect these new entrants are having on the market West LB has become the latest investment bank to move into the intermediary mortgage market. The […]

The latest Barclays Capital equity/gilt study has provoked comment as it highlights the expensive nature of UK Government securities. A bubble has been created at the long end of the […]

The VCT market is set for a record year with a wall of money coming in but, asks Nicola York, will the trust managers be able to find investments for […]

J.H. Chapman Group, L.L.C., the food industry's leading investment banking firm, provides the highest quality financial advisory services for divestitures, acquisitions, financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. The firm [...]

Business Capital Corporation (BCC) is a financial advisory firm that provides M&A and business valuation consulting services to middle market food companies. As an active member in the International Network [...]

MetLife provides intermediate and long-term loans to middle market food and commodity companies. Their agribusiness specialists offer flexible and competitive financing terms for producers, processors and logistics providers of food [...]

On Dec. 9, American Banker published an opinion article defending Sovereign Bancorp Inc.'s effort to sell an equity stake and use the proceeds to buy a banking company. The article, [...]

Goldman Sachs entered into agreements with 'several' trading houses to probe their private order books for trading opportunities with a newly launched alternative trading system. The move is an attempt [...]