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...While it has a credit card loan book of $137bn, it also has issued a significant volume of auto and commercial loans....
...Pinsent Masons has added Andrew Sackey as a partner to its commercial litigation, regulatory and tax litigation practice in London....
...Jan Dunning, chief executive of Lenta, Russia’s largest hypermarket chain, has left the company after nearly a decade and will be replaced by Herman Tinga, formerly Lenta’s commercial director....
...But the home and commercial heating demand for natural gas during the polar vortex took up almost all the spare pipeline capacity....
...The research brokerage CLSA independently collects data on new home prices in a wide range of cities (excluding the “Tier 1” cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, which account for only 4...
...Industrial and Commercial Bank of China now has $3tn of assets. And in market value terms, ICBC and three others are in the global top 10....
...In the beginning The development of China’s commercial housing market is one of the world’s greatest and least recognised privatization success stories, as the Communist Party allowed most workers to buy...
...up to run profits from forays into “other” activities (brokerage, financial leasing, private equity, insurance) ....
...“This is a commercial issue being dressed up as a policy issue,” says an executive at brokerage ITG....
...There have also been commercial barriers to the development of a consolidated tape, with no limitations on the prices venues can charge for the data....
...Regions Financial slipped 2.3 per cent to $4.69 as the bank confirmed the sale of its brokerage unit, Morgan Keegan, to Raymond James....
...Another two years were spent developing it for commercial use....
...Other blasts from the Irish banking past: Merrill’s missing Ireland note – FT Alphaville The missing bits from Merrill’s Ireland note – FT Alphaville The commercial real estate risk list – FT Alphaville...
...High-speed trading groups such as Infinium Capital Management and Jump Trading are headquartered there, as are derivatives brokerages Penson GHCO and thinkorswim....
...Marrying Merrill’s vast US network of brokers with BofA’s nationwide retail and commercial bank was one of the main drivers of the lender’s decision to bid $50bn for Merrill at the height of the financial...
...“There is still some pain to come for the commercial real estate side [of banks],” he says. Luisa Beltran is a reporter on Ignites, a Financial Times publication...
...as Investment Banking, Where We Ranked #1 Announced M&A; Solid Performance in Global Wealth Management Improvements in Morgan Stanley’s Debt-Related Credit Spreads, as well as Industry- Wide Decline in Commercial...
...The decision to spin off Smith Barney is part of Citi’s strategy of disposing of non-core businesses to focus on its commercial and investment banking operations....
...Citigroup plans to break itself up by separating higher risk US consumer finance and securities businesses from its global commercial banking operations in an attempt to ensure its survival, the FT reported...
...Dunlap Jr and Associates LLC, a Georgia firm, filed its suit on behalf of a Colorado charity....
...Mr Glucksman, who died in 2006, appeared to win with the departure of his rival in 1983, only to be forced to sell his prize a year later to American Express, which merged the business with its own brokerage...
...Morgan & Co, Amaranth Advisors – all were firms whose expertise in their corners of Wall Street, from retail brokerage and bond trading to commercial banking, once inspired envy and commanded respect....
...“It is a lens through which to view the country” – a country where it is seldom possible to separate the commercial from the political....
...Bankers say last week’s near-collapse of one of the most feared and influential US brokerage firms could not have come at a worse time for a sector battered by bad news and huge losses....
...Sheikh Hamdan is likely to assume other positions of authority as he seeks to gain more experience of the government’s commercial interests....
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