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No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... Today, said the biggest difference between the GFC and today is back then no one knew who to trust. "The balance sheets of US banks were hidden and toxic; it was the banks that had a virus and it was hard to know who had it so they just stopped doing ...

Banks feeling heat as MiFID II looms: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... banks are going to be in a world of hurt. They have more regulation on them and they're not as well-capitalised. The big US banks are going to everything they can to kill those banks and push them back into being regional lenders." Merrin cautioned that ...

Advice the face of wealth management evolution

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... don't want to risk other people trying to manage their advised clients through non-independent models. Clifford added US banks were likely to keep their wealth management arms because the post-GFC period has provided regulatory change which has kept ...

Valuation dispersion creating opportunity for instos to retilt

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... prices improve significantly. He adds that there is a similar story in the banking sector, particularly in the US. "Large US banks have done remarkably well to adjust and have mostly recovered their earnings. From an investment perspective the risk on ...

Largest five banks all Asian

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... in the global ranking though it would rank second if it followed the same accounting principles as the Chinese banks. US banks report their financials under US GAAP, while the largest Chinese banks report under the IFRS accounting principle. Under US ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... points, or 0.91 per cent, at 5,816.0. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have snapped a two-day losing streak, surging after big US banks cleared Federal Reserve stress tests and the dollar retreated from a 12-year high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... push markets up solidly in early trade, recovering from losses Wednesday as global regulators fined six top European and US banks $US4.2 billion (3.4 billion euros) for attempting to rig foreign exchange markets. However higher than expected US jobless ...

Global investment banking fees up 3% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... total. Second-place Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) booked fees of $4 billion. The top five spots were filled by US banks, with rankings unchanged from the previous year. According to Thomson Reuters, the third quarter was the slowest for fees ...

PM Capital boosted by beer and Las Vegas property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... companies have been trading at 10-times-earnings. That's way too bearish," Moore said. PM Capital also bought shares in US banks with big mortgage lending books that would benefit from a housing recovery, such as Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Moore ...

Hedge fund fees under pressure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... regulatory environment has seen banks step away from their day-to-day market activities. "Risk premiums at the five major US banks have fallen some 55%. We're looking at a lot of trades that used to be made by the bank property desks. There has been ...