Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The increasing co-operation comes as the World Bank and other multilateral development banks are being urged to overcome tight capital constraints and mobilise financial resources to help countries deal...
...for all or just a third of emissions linked to capital market deals....
...of bank capital requirements is timely....
...Japan’s sovereign development bank is investing in UK life sciences for the first time with funding for 4Bio Capital, a UK venture fund that backs advanced treatments such as cell and gene therapies....
...To get the merger approved, Capital One is making a case that there is little overlap between the two banks’ credit card businesses....
...To attract US investors, Northern Ireland has a new life sciences advisory board chaired by Mark Goldstone, partner in New York-based venture capital firm Eckuity, which specialises in early-stage life science...
...JPMorgan Chase spent about a year discussing a possible deal with Discover Financial before Capital One agreed a $35bn bid for the credit card company, as the largest US bank pursued ways to get control...
...We note that the capital structure is currently quite compressed....
...About a third of the new fund’s capital has been allocated. Arctos has recently been active in Europe, having concluded a deal in December to buy up to 12.5 per cent of Qatar-owned football club PSG....
...While combating global warming is a priority at Banga’s World Bank, there have been other motivations at work in stimulating private capital....
...SELL: N Brown (BWNG) The online retailer is losing customers in what appears to be a continuing trend, writes Christopher Akers....
...Close Brothers has announced a £400mn plan to bolster its capital position as it prepares for the impact of a regulatory probe into motor financing deals that analysts estimate could cost the banking industry...
...During his speech at the bank’s AGM, UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti said he agreed with Kelleher’s view on capital needs and said it was a “source of great concern” that the bank was perceived to enjoy...
...‘Second-tier’ cities Creating a hub beyond a capital city comes with challenges, however....
...Even strong banks such as JPMorgan, generating excess (common equity tier one) capital of half a point quarterly, would have less for shareholder payouts via buybacks....
...Longer term, observers said the PML-N must work to win back Punjab. “Wherever we go . . . everyone supports Imran Khan,” said Sahiba Batool, a 27-year-old engineer in Lahore, the provincial capital....
...to setting a bank’s capital....
...Carlyle Group has hired Jeff Currie, the former Goldman Sachs global head of commodities research who predicted a mid-2000s boom in oil prices, to help the US private capital group invest behind big trends...
...The current proposals would require the biggest US banks to hold a greater amount of capital, which can absorb losses, against their assets....
...Capital Markets Disunion Europeans’ money is sleeping in bank deposits, leaving EU companies short of access to capital, and often forcing them to look across the Atlantic when seeking funds to scale up...
...The 12 large cap banks followed by Morgan Stanley analysts, including PNC, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, now have more than $180bn of excess common equity tier one capital — a record high...
...It started off as a call mutual with no capital and due to careful underwriting and prudent financial management grew strong. My point is that insurers and banks don’t fail due to lack of capital....
...hybrid capital instrument....
...The official sector is filling a role that was once left to bank capital. The best illustration of this is in the repo market, a liquid market with trillions of dollars in daily volumes....
...much less dangerous by a very modest increase in capital that will have little if any impact on the real economy....
International Edition