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Banking

Winner of 2024: Investment Bankers

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As the dealmaking environment improved in 2024 thanks to the bull market and interest-rate cuts, investment bankers reaped a windfall.

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Banking

Jamie Dimon Seems Unfazed About JPMorgan’s Tepid China Business

Despite some business “falling off a cliff” the CEO said other operations “should hopefully grow over time.”

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Banking

UBS Has Left its Credit Suisse Burden Behind

Integration costs related to Credit Suisse were just over $1 billion, well below the $3.75 billion in the two previous quarters combined.

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Banking

Goldman Sachs Leans On ‘Core Strengths’ to Crush Q1 Earnings

In the first three months of the year, the investment bank scored a 16% jump in revenue and $4.1 billion in net income, a 28% rise.

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Finance

BlackRock Still Leads US ETF Market, But It’s Losing Ground

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The asset manager’s rival Vanguard has captured investors’ recent interest in embracing cheap broad-market index funds.

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Power Corridor

What’s Afoot At the FDIC?

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It’s not every day that you wake up to headlines about one of the nation’s most staid-and-storied institutions – really, the cornerstone upon which the entire U.S. banking system rests in order to remain stable – engaging in the sexual…

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Power Corridor

How Much Did SBF’s Parents Know?

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is shaping up to be one of the biggest show trials on Wall Street since Bernie Madoff. Did SBF’s parents know?

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Wall Street’s Top Banks Fined $53 Million in Regulatory Spanking

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Wall Street’s Top Banks Fined – CFTC ordered Goldman to pay $30 million, JP Morgan $15 million, and Bank of America $8 million.

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Banking

Goldman Sachs CEO Still Has the Board and Investors in His Corner

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