Pre-migration untagged articles
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2007 was a rotten year for Wall Street senior executives, but who came through unscathed, smiling, looking good and with most of his personal fortune intact?
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The international financial press has finally realised that with so many top fixed income specialists having been fired, the pool of talent available for hiring has probably never been more attractive.
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Two bids for distressed UK bank Northern Rock survived the week, with Olivant dropping out on Monday to leave a bid from the Virgin led consortium to compete against an offer from the Northern Rock board. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has also reclassified Northern Rock, declaring it a public institution.
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UK Chancellor Alistair Darling renewed the government’s backing for the country’s planned registered covered bond framework in a speech to the Engineer’s Employers Federation (EEF) Manufacturers’ biennial dinner in London on Wednesday night.
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At Merrill Lynch, where John Thain, late of Goldman Sachs and the New York Stock Exchange, is in control, there has been no Night of the Long Knives, but more of a gradual blood-letting among the senior management.
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ICAP, the broker, last Friday (January 25) broked the first interdealer basis swaption ever seen in the market, it confirmed to EuroWeek. The trade took a position on euro/dollar basis.
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The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) this week announced that its technical committee, created last November to address the subprime crisis, was also looking at making changes within the IOSCO’s Code of Conduct for Credit Rating Agencies (CRA).