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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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Technology

The State of the Billionaire Space Race

Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.

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Finance

Crypto-Friendly Neo-Broker eToro Files for IPO

The listing marks a potentially triumphant comeback story and an insult of sorts to the embattled London stock exchange.

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Energy

Oil Markets Show Signs of Resilience and Retreat as 2025 Gets Underway

With the way things are going today, it’s becoming increasingly hard to figure out what’s going on with the oil market.

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