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Boutique banks rise in survey

Evercore Partners and Greenhill rise to the top 10 in a bank survey conducted by jobs Web site Vault.com. Bet you can guess who got first.


Nomura is Facebook-stalking Lehman employees

Nomura Holdings hired former Lehman employees through Facebook.


From banker to entrepreneur

Due to massive layoffs, many former Wall Street bankers and employees of i-banks have decided to turn over a new leaf and become entrepreneurs.


Hiring: Mizuho Securities needs i-bankers

Mizuho Securities is hiring 150 investment bankers in London as it restructures.


Lehman's unwinding begins

Credit default swaps -- contracts that unraveled Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. -- will be unwound tomorrow. The Lehman Brothers credit default swaps auction takes place Friday, and as The Big Picture points out the derivatives unwind has been what's roiling markets. ...


Morgan Stanley, Goldman link lending to their own creditworthiness

Seeking to protect themselves against the loss of financing that brought down Bear Sterns, investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs & Co. are linking their lending commitments to hedge funds directly to their own creditworthiness. ...


Roll Call: Lehman Brothers' strategic options

So what is going to happen to Lehman Brothers Inc.? Everyone seems to have theories. Here are a few worth reading. ...


UBS says no merger with Deutsche Bank

UBS newly elected chairman Peter Kurer shot down any speculation in a shareholder meeting that his bank was considering a merger with Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank AG. When a shareholder asked about the possible hookup, Kurer was to the point by saying: "We are not up for sale, '' according to Bloomberg. - Gerald Magpily See Bloomberg article ...


M&A Quarterly Report: Investment banks on global, U.S., European deals Q1 '08

The investment banks advising on global deals as well as those with U.S. targets and European targets for the first quarter of 2008, based on data from Dealogic. See charts after the jump.  ...


M&A Quarterly Report: Time to tinker

With deal volume dropping, investment banks are starting to re-examine their M&A departments. But don't expect any big restructurings or downsizing just yet. ...


Lehman vs. Bear Stearns

The nascent Fox Business Network has introduced a feature entitled "America's Greatest Business Rivalries" where they compare well-known adversaries. The latest "combatants" -- as Fox calls them -- are bulge bracket banks Lehman Brothers Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co. After host Alexis Glick provided some historical perspective of the two firms, she sat down with NYU Stern School professor of economics Richard Sylla and MarketWatch Wall Street columnist David Weidner, who also happens to be an alum of The Deal, to discuss the future of the two firms. See the two-part video after the jump. - Matthew Wurtzel ...


Capital Markets: Ditching debt

Investment banks are selling some of the estimated $200 billion of committed debt on their books, though at steep discounts.



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Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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