- 15 years of Global Finance: 1999
HEADNOTE In 1999 the Nasdaq stock market for the first time passed its venerable rival, the New York Stock Exchange, in terms of dollar value traded. IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 2 Top team: (l-r) John Thain, Henry Paulson and John Thornton Quest for Capital Prompts Goldman IPO Goldman Sachs ......
- SEC announces new rules to combat stock analyst and investment banking conflicts
HEADNOTE maker HEADNOTE Editor's Note: Recent events have placed potential conflicts of interest by stock analysts under closer scrutiny. The media, regulators and securities firms are treating the issue with great seriousness. For instance, recently Merrill Lynch settled with the state of New York for $100 million based on an ......
- William A. Houlihan Joins UBS as Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Banking Group.
NEW YORK -- UBS announced today that William A. Houlihan has joined UBS as a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) within UBS Investment Bank. Houlihan is based in New York and reports to Oliver Sarkozy, Joint Global Head of FIG Investment Banking. Houlihan, 52, has previously held ......
- Industry Veteran Keith Kessel Joins ALPS in New Compliance Position.
DENVER -- ALPS Fund Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that Keith Kessel has joined the company in the new position of Senior Compliance Officer & Special Counsel. Mr. Kessel brings nearly 15 years of legal and financial experience to the ALPS family, having served in executive, legal and compliance ......
- Capital Crossing Bank Shareholders Adopt Merger Agreement with Lehman Brothers Bank.
BOSTON -- Capital Crossing Bank (Nasdaq: CAPX) today announced that its shareholders voted to adopt the agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank, will acquire Capital Crossing. At a special meeting of shareholders held earlier today, ......
- EIGHT UNISYS ES7000 SERVERS TO RUN FAST-GROWING
WEBSITE, CONSOLIDATE WORKLOAD OF 150 SERVERS AT NETHERLANDS' BANK
LABOUCHERE.
Building on its initial success with Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 technology, Bank Labouchere has ordered six additional ES7000s to run Alex, its popular e-brokerage website, Unisys said today. Two ES7000s were ordered by Bank Labouchere earlier in 2000. The Unisys ES7000 servers will provide the Dutch investment banking firm ......
- 25 years of blacks in financing.
Not too long ago, if you wanted to convene a meeting of black America's financial all stars--individuals with power and influence in the banking, finance and insurance industries--you probably could have fit them neatly into one small conference room. In fact, Granite Broadcasting CEO W. Don Cornwell, then a top ......