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Entries tagged "National City"

Critical, if improving

Some financing markets are open, others are closed. The future remains desperately uncertain, but at least the patient shows signs of life.

A matter of interpretation

Did fair-value accounting deepen the crisis or provide the remedy? Does the market provide a rational view of true value or a procyclical blast of emotion? The debate roars on, with no end in sight.

Buyouts and banks

A once-promising relationship has been marked by disaster, so what lessons are there for investors still intrigued by the bargains?

So much for all that

Remember the emergency, three-page bailout plan to buy toxic securities? Well, never mind.

Beneath the TARP

Whatever happened to Treasury buying toxic assets? Maybe the feds figured consolidation is a faster road to stability.

Taking the PIPE

Private equity investments in public companies have a mixed record. But where else can investors put their money?

Hammerin' Hank

In which we track the wandering peregrinations of a bailout story from its source in boring wonkery to its final resting place on outraged cable.

Cravath in a lot of cookie jars

Cravath's Faiza Saeed represented Morgan Stanley's board on the company's conversion to a bank holding company and its stake sale to Mitsubishi UFJ.

Movers & shakers: Nov. 4, 2008

Herbert McDade III will leave Barclays Capital at the end of November. McDade, who was president of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., leaves less than two...

Nat City counts on S&C

H. Rodgin Cohen, Edward Herlihy advise on yet another bank deal.

Happy days are/aren't here again

LIBOR falls, so do equity markets. Banks get a bailout, but the financial system may have more shocks ahead. The outlook for regulation and the American lifestyle.

Deep in the funk

As the credit crunch has grown worse, even the best deals are having trouble getting financed.

Banking on PE

Banks are being introduced their new private equity shareholders.

Dilution solution

The Fed raises eyebrows with some changes in Corsair's stake in National City.

Take it to the limit

PE firms are pushing to bust down the Bank Holding Company Act, but is that really necessary?

Waiting game

TPG leads buyout shops in banking on financial institutions.

Banks turn to PE firms

But the growing trend is filled with complications.