A double blow for the principals of the GLG hedge fund that was bought by rival Man Group last year for £1.1 billion, in what Man boss Peter Clarke described at the time as a "transformational" deal... more
Swiss investment banking giant UBS scores a coup against German rival Deutsche Bank after claiming former Bundesbank president and international big-hitter Axel Weber as its new chairman... more
Titbit on the succession saga at Deutsche Bank. Chairman Josef Ackermann has so far refused to back the obvious candidate to replace him, London investment bank head Anshu Jain, whose division now makes 90% of the group's profits... more
It's that time of year when many of the world's senior business folk, political leaders and attendant PR advisers and journalists decamp to the Alpine retreat... more
Deutsche Bank’s Anshu Jain delivers a mea culpa on behalf of his industry while defending the need for large investment banks to help sustain an economic recovery... more
Ignore the political huffing and puffing. There is only one response to Bob Diamond's appointment, which is to ask: What if Barclays had put in someone else as chief executive? What then?... more
Deutsche Bank reports record investment banking profits, and at the same time says it does not expect to face Goldman Sachs-style charges over mortgage-backed securities ... more
Bankers stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the World Economic Forum in Davos to try to prevent a scatter-gun approach to new financial regulation by different countries... more
Banks will be back in the spotlight next week when they report second-quarter profits. But if the pin-stripes in the boardroom were expected to suffer from a touch of nerves, they were not showing it ... more
A further addition to the plethora of savage anti-Goldman Sachs articles in America — quite possibly the best of the bunch — comes from US writer Michael Lewis on Bloomberg.com
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Deutsche Bank, one of the biggest employers in the City of London with more than 8000 UK workers, strongly signalled the strength of recovery in investment banking in the capital
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Top executives from 13 major African, Asian, European and U.S. banks held talks about capital adequacy, regulatory reform and attempts to revive the global economy at a meeting with Gordon Brown
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Banking: Deutsche Bank hammered home why bonuses for its London bankers will be 60% down on last year as it reported group losses of nearly €6 billion (£5.3 billion)... more
Joe Lewis, the man who lost the best part of a billion dollars on buying shares in Bear Stearns as it was about to collapse, owns most of Tottenham Hotspur... more
Deutsche Bank, which employs hundreds of people in London, is considering a new bonus scheme that will reward bankers for their performance over several consecutive years rather than annually... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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