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...In his famous book The Big Short, Michael Lewis writes that “when, in 1981, [John Gutfreund] turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into Wall Street’s first public corporation . . . from that...
...Ion was founded in 1999 by former Salomon Brothers trader Andrea Pignataro. Its technology is used by banks, central banks and corporations for electronic trading....
...In January 2007, with the financial crisis looming, he sold the company, Reckson Associates Realty Corporation, to SL Green for $6.5bn....
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...Educated in the US, Kim worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers before joining global private equity giant Carlyle, where as Asia president he led the firm’s Asian push in the early...
...Ira Harris, Salomon Brothers’ Chicago dealmaker, dies at 83 (Bloomberg) Phil Mickelson apologizes for comments on Saudi-backed golf league as KPMG ends His sponsorship (Wall Street Journal) Metro Bank’...
...The writer, a former senior partner of Salomon Brothers, is president of Henry Kaufman & Co American capitalism is rapidly disappearing....
...Like today’s private capital firms, Salomon Brothers, Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch were set up as partnerships and were avid dealmakers....
...Portfolios of toxic residential mortgages paralysed credit markets, while some $40bn of risky commercial real estate exposure helped to bring down Lehman Brothers....
...After the fiasco at Salomon Brothers in the 1990s, you know better than to flat-out cheat in your dealings with this government....
...In 1992, the SEC, Treasury and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve submitted a 200-page report to Congress in the wake of the Salomon Brothers scandal – in which the investment bank submitted false...
...She also has wide-ranging experience at financial institutions including Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, the New York Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley and BIDS Trading....
...My first sense that something was going badly wrong came after a lunch in 2004 with Henry Kaufman, the Salomon Brothers guru known as Dr Doom for his warnings about debt bubbles and the bond market....
...He started out as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s – the era of Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker – and was only brought to Citi through the Travelers merger....
...A former Salomon Brothers bond trader, Mr Ranieri was made famous in the book Liar’s Poker and is often referred to as the father of mortgage-backed securities....
...He also held a number of positions at Salomon Brothers, one of Citi’s predecessor companies, including Managing Director roles in Emerging Markets, High Yield and Derivatives....
...In 1998, after a series of acquisitions, including Salomon Brothers, the investment bank, and Smith Barney, the retail brokerage, Mr Weill combined his Travelers Group with Citicorp to create a sprawling...
...Back in 1976 Sotheby’s auction house launched its own property division titled Sotheby’s International Realty and, although it entered a long-term strategic alliance with the US-based Realogy Corporation...
...Brothers, the investment bank, US Airways and Champion, a struggling paper business....
...Fired from Salomon Brothers, in the 1981 recession, Michael Bloomberg used his pay-off to start Bloomberg, the eponymous financial information business....
...Prior to that, he was at Lehman Brothers from 2000. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr Robertson was affiliated with Salomon Smith Barney, and has 19 years of experience covering his sector....
...Brothers affair), 1992 (Soros et al and the ERM), 1994 (the bond market collapse), 1997 (Asian crisis) and 1998 (Russian default, LTCM) will readily testify....
...Brothers mailroom....
...By 1998, Mr Black had risen to vice chairman of the Citi’s investment-banking arm, Salomon Smith Barney....
...(Just read Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker for an entertaining description of how this played out in the Salomon Brothers 1980s training programme.)...
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