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Gartmore’s £1bn float to kick start surge in IPO

20.11.09
Fund management giant Gartmore is to list on the Stock Exchange, firing the starting gun on what is expected to be several major flotations in London in the next 12 months... more

Qataris are billed £100m for Candys

18.11.09
The already high stakes in the battle between the former partners in the £3 billion redevelopment of the Chelsea Barracks site are set to get even higher ... more

Launch of new lobby group to speak for the Square Mile

17.11.09
The City begins its fight back this week with the launch of a lobby group to speak out for the financial services industry and allied professions in the Square Mile ... more

Bank of America chief may be forced out this week

05.10.09
Bank of America could have a new leader before the week is out ... more

Petrofac surges to a high

14.08.09
Shares of Petrofac looked to be rounding off the week on a high note with the shares trading at record highs ... more

Demand for raw materials makes Merrill an optimist

05.08.09
Merrill Lynch is confident the global economic recovery is already underway. It sees growing demand for raw materials which will, in turn, be good news for the big mining companies ... more

Builders win backing

01.07.09
There is still no sign that the slump in the housing market has hit rock bottom. In fact, some property experts are predicting prices will continue falling throughout the remainder of this year, by as much as another 10% to 20% ... more

Builders win backing

01.07.09
There is still no sign that the slump in the housing market has hit rock bottom. In fact, some property experts are predicting prices will continue falling throughout the remainder of this year, by as much as another 10% to 20% ... more

Number of super-rich is crunched by a quarter

25.06.09
The super-rich are getting poorer because of the credit crunch... more

Water stirred by dividend jitters

26.05.09
There was no shortage of water in London’s streets today but that was not the reason Bank of America Merrill Lynch cut its rating on two of the four biggest suppliers of the wet stuff, Pennon and Northumbrian, from neutral to underperform before next month’s dividend reporting season... more

Bank of America profits massively ahead of expectations

20.04.09
Bank of America has stunned Wall Street with first-quarter profits hugely ahead of anyone’s expectations... more

Panmure in BlueGem deal after a dive into red

15.04.09
Panmure Gordon today raised £17.3 million to bolster its finances after “a shocking year” in 2008 saw it dive into the red... more

£85m rogue trader: It's a misunderstanding

12.03.09
The banker at the centre of an £85 million "rogue trader" scandal insisted the issue was a "misunderstanding" as he returned to London to face investigators... more

Probe into bonuses for Merrill Lynch bosses

05.03.09
New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has issued subpoenas for seven Merrill Lynch executives who scooped tens of millions of dollars in bonuses even as the firm racked up losses of $27.6 billion (£19.69 billion)... more

Barclays slump his Temasek portfolio

10.02.09
The crash in the value of Barclays and Merrill Lynch has dragged down the value of investments by Temasek, the Singapore government's global investment arm... more

How the Herd thundered into a rubbish bin

27.01.09
Is Merrill Lynch the worst company in history? Competition for the title is tough, but any study would have to give weight to the claims of the self-styled “world’s biggest stockbroker” ... more

£250bn bill to save US banks

16.01.09
The US government has launched a $373 billion (£250billion) bail-out package to save just two stricken banks... more

UK job fears deepen with 3000 more hit

13.01.09
Economy: Britain has been hit by another 3000 job cuts. Merrill Lynch and its new owner Bank of America is axing 1900 jobs in London, while the Sheffield-based roofing materials group SIG shed 1000... more

Bonuses to be halved at Merrill

03.12.08
Merrill Lynch department heads told to cut year-end bonuses for their staff by half... more

Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has been revisiting his inside story of investment banking in the 1980s

24.11.08
Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has been revisiting his inside story of the "Big Swinging Dicks" of investment banking in the 1980s... more

A question of ethics in the City

26.09.08
People sometimes ask whether the City today is a more honest place than it was 20 years ago. The answer is probably no, but the nature of the lapses has changed... more

Lehman's collapse rattles the really rich

15.09.08
The phone has rung off the hook all weekend. “Are you OK?” I've asked friends whose husbands have been at Lehman Brothers. No, of course they are not... more

BoA swoops for Merrill in £28bn deal

15.09.08
Credit crunch: Bank of America’s $50 billion (£28 billion) early-morning takeover of Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch creates the world’s biggest financial services group... more

Banks pay up on 'worthless' security sales

22.08.08
Investment banks Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have caved into pressure from New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo to settle the dispute over their sale of auction rate securities... more

Merrill freeze on hiring staff after huge writedowns

15.08.08
Investment bank Merrill Lynch have declared a total hiring freeze until the end of the year as it licks its wounds after billions of dollars in writedowns... more

Bank uses US losses to take 60-year tax break

15.08.08
Merrill Lynch might not pay any corporation tax for the next 60 years, it emerged... more

High Street banks 'may need £30bn'

21.04.08
Britain's seven stock market-listed High Street banks could need to raise up to £30bn of fresh capital... more

Job cuts sweep City

18.04.08
The City is braced as bank chiefs announced thousands of job cuts.... more

Merrill Lynch set to cut 10% of its worldwide workforce

17.04.08
Merrill Lynch says it will slash 4000 jobs around the world... more

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