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A growing split between the haves and have-nots in US banking was laid bare in four lenders’ full-year earnings on Wednesday. Goldman Sachs Group...
Jamie Dimon, who turns 69 in March, will one day retire as chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. The candidates to succeed him have been...
Italy looks more worried about averting a few job cuts at home than amplifying its economic strength in the wider world. It’s not alone among...
US investment banks have little room for error in their upcoming full-year results. With share prices of almost all the major firms at or close to...
The European banking industry has been supposedly on the verge of a flood of mergers and takeovers for at least a decade — and I’ve spent most of...
US bankers are rubbing their hands at an expected boom in dealmaking under a market-friendly President-elect Donald Trump next year. But scratch...
Like any good investment banker, Andrea Orcel isn’t content to wait for a single deal. With UniCredit SpA’s potential bid for Germany’s...
UBS Group AG is racing through its integration of the old Credit Suisse and hitting its targets ahead of schedule, which helped the Swiss bank beat...
Barclays Plc and Deutsche Bank AG have both benefited from interest rates staying higher than expected this year, supporting revenue and helping...
There’s one lesson for any bank executive looking at the record money laundering penalties handed to Toronto-Dominion Bank last week: Whatever...
Wall Street’s bankers and traders can now feel much better about this year’s bonuses than they did only in the summer. The volume of deals and...
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s net interest income was the hot topic of its third-quarter results, much to the irritation of Chief Executive Officer Jamie...
Britain’s stock-investing culture has been withering for years, with the only real growth coming from consultants, policymakers and commentators...
It might not be time to really get nervous about US money markets, but it’s definitely time to pay more attention. Signs of strain emerged as...
Andrea Orcel has to win two battles for UniCredit SpA to take over Germany’s Commerzbank AG. First, the Italian bank’s chief executive officer...
Gary Gensler, chief US securities regulator, enlisted Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix’s movie “Her” last week to help explain his worries...
Since Italy’s UniCredit SA put Commerzbank AG in play, Deutsche Bank AG needs to consider its options. A takeover bid for its German rival doesn’t...
The 16th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers has been marked by regulators signaling that the era of toughening up capital rules is...
UniCredit SpA shocked Germany Wednesday with its dawn raid on the Commerzbank AG shares being sold by the government. That took the Italian...
Banks and shadow banks are meant to exist in separate worlds, but the financial links between them are increasingly seen as a source of potential...
Jane Street Group LLC and Citadel Securities are on a tear. First-half revenue at the two predominantly electronic market makers grew about 80%...
Call me Ishmael. The biggest question about an investment banking client like Elon Musk is whether he turns out to be a Moby Dick. They’re rare...
Life is going well again for fintechs, judging by the flow of headlines about two of Europe’s leading finance apps. After the startup crash of...
A year after UBS Group AG completed its emergency takeover of failing rival Credit Suisse, the project is faring better than the Swiss bank dared...
HSBC Holdings Plc came a long way under Noel Quinn as chief executive officer, becoming a simpler and more efficient firm, while asset sales helped...
Walter Bagehot, the pioneering British chronicler of central banking, wouldn’t recognize at all how today’s Bank of England will soon interact with...
Investor complacency is often blamed when rising stock markets ignore potentially unsettling data for weeks and then viciously sell off. But this...
BNP Paribas SA has had billions of euros in spare capital burning a hole in its corporate pocket since the sale of its US retail arm, Bank of the...
The nagging question over Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA’s second attempt to take over its smaller Spanish rival Banco de Sabadell SA is...
Big European banks are humming, but you’d never guess that from looking at their stock prices. BNP Paribas SA, Deutsche Bank AG, Banco Santander SA...
The chaos that froze digital systems around the world on Friday is exactly the kind of crisis that financial regulators have been fretting about in...
The barbarians are back at the gates. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are confident that their most important clients are about to get...