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Investment bank RCW Minis (Boston) has formed a specialty industries group, focusing on advising plastics manufacturing, frozen and specialty foods processing and distribution, and specialty consumer products businesses. RCW, which [...]

Kuljit Bawa says straight-through processing is essential to an investment banking industry that is under pressure Today's complex markets are more competitive than ever before and straight-through processing (STP) is [...]

Bermuda Stock Exchange and other Web sites give companies a pre-IPO forum There is no better way for a company to grab investors' attention than to have an initial public […]

A handful of the world's largest investment banks are to launch a joint financial information portal for institutional investors. The group, which includes the Goldman Sachs Group and Merrill Lynch. […]

* The petroleum and energy ministry commissioned a valuation of the state-owned generating utility. Statkraft, from Ernst & Young and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. The news prompted speculation that partial privatisation [...]

Investment target is the middle market FAR NORTH DALLAS -- Venture capital firm The Markpoint Co. is raising $5 million to $10 million for a private equity fund that will [...]

In mid-March, John Joyce, IBM's chief financial officer, called some key staff members to a breakfast meeting in Armonk, N.Y. Prompted by the surprise partnership in February of DaimlerChrysler, Ford, […]

'First Tuesdays' link ideas with investors A local investment banker and his company hope a hot, new British way of hooking up entrepreneurs and investors will put the Denver area's [...]

J.P. Morgan & Co. announced an updated version Wednesday of Morgan OnLine, its Internet service for private banking customers that was formally introduced this year. The updating includes customized recommendations [...]

Hot on the heels of building risk management and trading systems at major investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston, the founders of a new company […]

HEALTHCARE MARKETS GROUP www.healthcaremarkets.com Advisory and investment banking firm focuses exclusively on health care companies. Home page features stock reports and earnings estimates for publicly traded health care companies. Reports [...]

Radio One Inc., the Lanham-based broadcasting company, completed a rare and complex private placement of convertible preferred stock this month. The move indicates that the company, the nation's largest targeting [...]

* Egypt Investors interested in buying a majority stake in Arab African International Bank have been invited to apply to receive the information memorandum from the bank or the advisers [...]

"IPOs are soooo 1999. What you've got to do is get involved in some private placements. Which do you want: 100 shares of a public firm at its IPO price […]

The market for electronic delivery of fixed-income information heats up as Securities.Hub--a consortium of six leading Wall Street firms--gears up to release Syndicate.Hub, a one-stop shop for institutional investors seeking […]

Two views of the Walt Disney Co.'s near-term stock prospects are being offered by different investment houses this month. ABN AMRO has launched coverage of Disney stock with a 'buy' [...]

AFC Realty Capital has arranged $4.3 million in permanent financing for a airfreight material handling and distribution warehouse operated by Federal Express at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The [...]

New York investment firm PaineWebber Inc. upped its rating on shares of Kroger Co. after the supermarket operator posted earnings gains of 22 percent before merger expenses June 20. Previously [...]

'Salomon Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Merrill Lynch, and Chapdelaine -- come on down You're the next contestants on 'The Liquidity is Here. ' The joint venture the four [...]

ANZ Investment Bank has launched an online foreign currency trading platform, which may eventually be open to European and Australasian retail investors. Developed in partnership with Reuters, www.anz.com/ fxonline allows [...]

Sylvia Chou looks at the online traders and retail brokerage firms that are trying to fulfill the demands of the retail investment market Traditionally, initial public offerings (IPOs) have not [...]

SOUTHERN California has emerged as one of the nation's hottest finance markets, as evidenced by the decision of Ken Moelis, corporate finance chieftain at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., [...]

Filling a void in an underserved middle market is what JD Ford's chief executive Joseph Durnford and former Vice President Dan Quayle hope to accomplish in the Denver company's new [...]

Intralinks Inc., a secure online messaging service, has promoted its president, James P. Dougherty, to chief executive officer. Mr. Dougherty succeeded Mark S. Adams, who founded the company in 1997. [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD ANZ Investment Bank, the investment banking arm of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, has launched a new web-based foreign exchange trading platform […]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD ANZ Investment Bank, the investment banking arm of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, has launched a new web-based foreign exchange trading platform […]

Institutions' access and flipping privileges can be used to eliminate any Internet IPO aftermarket risk. Prevailing wisdom concludes that Internet IPOs are highly risky investments. This risk is concentrated in [...]

The Winter Park investment banking firm of Poole Carbone Eckbert successfully advised in the sale of Hood Tents & Events to United Rental for an undisclosed sum. Owned by private [...]

Investment banking giant State Street Corp. has launched an online trading tool, Fund Connect, which will enable institutional investors to trade mutual fund-type products such as multicurrency and short-term company [...]

Allen-based software-maker Micro-grafx Inc. (Nasdaq: MGXI) hired Dallas investment bank Hoak Breedlove Wesneski & Co. to serve as financial adviser to the company's new subsidiary, Image2Web Inc. The subsidiary manages [...]

After several months in which Nassau County, N.Y., seemed to face nothing but bad news about budget deficits and rating downgrades, the county acknowledged yesterday that it has hired an [...]

Entrepreneurs and the people who fund them soon will have a place to meet online. OhioAngels.com, a Web site designed to help improve the flow of private investment in Ohio, [...]

Never before have semiconductor firms faced such a tight market for private equity. First, the industry takes a dreadful downturn, resulting in excess capacity and lilting demand. Then, with the […]

TheStreet.com has acknowledged that it hired the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella & Co. to explore "strategic partnerships." The media establishment, the very folks that outed this most recent move, […]

Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston are hot stuff thanks largely to one huge transaction ABOUT THIS TIME LAST YEAR, when Spanish oil company Repsol bought its [...]

In an effort to keep up with a record volume of equity placements, Chase H&Q, the San Francisco-based unit of Chase Manhattan Corp., is building a new, 10-person equity capital [...]

As the issue of predatory lending captures the attention of the media, 'subprime' has become the latest buzzword for evil banking. If investors and regulators agree, bankers fear that could [...]

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. is planning to expand its office in Atlanta in an effort to strengthen its foothold in the Southeast. Baird added investment banking to its [...]

J.P. Morgan & Co. is aggressively courting a new class of wealthy clients. The company unveiled on Monday an on-line private bank that packages investment planning and advice, portfolio management, [...]

Ross Smith was in a quandary. Last year he was helping launch a 3-D graphics company. He needed additional capital, but since Quantum3D Inc. wasn't a dot-com, venture capitalists weren't [...]

The European brokerage firm ING Barings upgraded its recommendation for Kendle International Jan. 27 from 'hold' to 'buy.' ING Barings has Kendle's price target at $18 and growth rate at [...]

Seeking to keep up with the investing and issuing habits of the leveraged finance market, CIBC World Markets has combined its U.S. leveraged lending and high-yield bond teams into a [...]

EAV Realty Corp. is a real estate investment banking boutique - a small specialty shop with far-reaching resources, staffed by MBA's who have solid credentials, knowledge and contacts relevant to [...]

What is the fastest growing group at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, the Century City-based corporate evaluation firm? "Our bankruptcy practice," said Jim Zukin, founder and nameplate partner. "What people [...]

Lender Tamarack Capital Partners LLC has closed its first fund at $5.1 million, arid is ready to provide what it calls mezzanine financing to local, established companies. Created by two [...]

Our clear lesson from the wild IPO market of the past few years is that a lot of companies should never have gone public. Just because your company's name has [...]

Credit Suisse First Boston yesterday repeated its 'buy' rating on British Sky Broadcasting [BSY] and raised its price target to UK pounds21.50. Credit Suisse was impressed by BSkyB's sub growth […]

NEW YORK - Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. is to distribute debt securities electronically for institutional investors. PrimeDebt, a global distribution service for the primary issuance of debit securities, will [...]

DEPARTMENT ALREADY HAS SIGNED five deals worth $150 million with mid-sized regional firms looking for alternative growth financing Provident Financial Group Inc. has moved into investment banking, creating a corporate [...]