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• Dubai World’s debt not sovereign

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 570
  Dubai craved publicity and so it went on a binge of construction, building everything from an indoor ski hill to the world’s tallest tower. It could have spared itself the noise and aggravation. Turns out, a far more effective way to monopolize headlines is to stage one of the world’s biggest debt crises. The ...
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• Dubai: Less worry for global banks, more concern about spillover effect

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 570
  Markets are justifiably concerned about whether or not the government of Dubai’s debt obligations will be fulfilled, but just $4.3-billion of the $59-billion total Dubai World debt was due to mature in December 2009. A further $4.9-billion was due in the first quarter of 2010 and there are only $13-billion of ...
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• Keeping score: HK IPO, M&A picks up

  
  DealZone — Authority: 526
  Highlights from this week’s Thomson Reuters Investment Banking Scorecard: 6TH LARGEST IPO OF THE YEAR In this week’s second largest ECM transaction Sands China, the Macau operations of US based Las Vegas Sands raised $2.5 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange. It is the 6th largest IPO of the year and the ...
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• Corel: ‘What a turkey’

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 121
  Contact: Brenon Daly As many of us get ready to sit down with friends and family for our annual Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, our thoughts inescapably turn to poultry. When we look around at some of the deals out there right now, our thoughts also turn to poultry. For instance, whenever Corel comes up, we ...
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• Morgan Stanley Announces Executive Appointments

  
  Capital IQ Power Moves — Authority: 148
  Morgan Stanley has hired former Merrill Lynch executive David Moffitt for a newly created position to lead the bank’s securitised debt sales in its capital markets division. Moffitt will head the global credit solutions and will be responsible for all primary securitisation and asset restructuring opportunities. ...
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• Media new battle ground in I-bank bonus season war

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 128
  It is hard to open up a newspaper right now and not read about the anxiety currently swirling around investment banking circles at the Canadian bank-owned dealers. First it was Boyd Erman’s piece (” Stirrings of revolution on the Street “) in the Tuesday Globe and Mail, arraying all of the reasons why bank ...
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• Emergency Loans Secrecy Defended in Britain

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  The government defended the right of the Bank of England to make secret loans to struggling banks after belatedly disclosing that the Bank of England had lent almost $104 billion to two institutions last year.
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• Nomura Fined £1.75 Million by F.S.A.

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Nomura, the Japanese brokerage, has been fined $2.9 million by Britains Financial Services Authority after one of its Hong Kong traders helped trigger an over-valuation of complex financial instruments.
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• Half of Bank Losses May Be Hidden, I.M.F. Chief Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Half of the losses suffered by banks could still be hidden in their balance sheets, more so in Europe than in the United States, the International Monetary Funds chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, told Le Figaro.
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• How to Break Into Investment Banking in India If You’ve Been Out of School for 5+ Years and You Don’t Have a Finance Background

  
  Mergers & Inquisitions — Authority: 114
  I get a lot of questions about this one, but everyone behind M&I is pretty clueless when it comes to India. Luckily, that’s not the case with our readers – many of whom work in the region or are planning to in the near future. This interview comes to you from a reader who landed a boutique investment ...
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• Executive Pay Fiasco: Lehman Brothers & Bear Stearns

  
  The Young Raging Bull — Authority: 120
  According to a new study by Harvard University, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. executives made US$2.5 billion from 2000 to 2008, a sign pay polices may have encouraged risk-taking that doomed the companies.   The top five officials at Lehman, which filed for bankruptcy in September ...
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• James Crosson Joins Investors Capital

  
  Capital IQ Power Moves — Authority: 148
  Investors Capital announced that financial advisor James Crosson of Fall River, Mass. has joined the firm. Mr. Crosson, a producer with 25 years of experience, was previously affiliated with a San Diego-based independent broker/dealer. -Business Wire
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• Morgan Stanley Hires Former Merrill Executive

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Morgan Stanley has hired a former Merrill Lynch executive, David Moffitt, to prepare the firms capital markets division for a resurgence in securitized debt sales.
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• Bets on casual games are paying off

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 121
  -Contact: Thomas Rasmussen , Brenon Daly Fittingly enough, on the one-year anniversary of our piece predicting continued consolidation of the social and casual gaming space, Electronic Arts announced the industry’s largest acquisition. The Redwood City, California-based videogame giant acquired Playfish on ...
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• Jefferies Announces New Hires

  
  Capital IQ Power Moves — Authority: 148
  Jefferies announced that the company has hired Verena Mladek , who was brought on as a senior vice president for emerging market sales. Ms. Mladek’s new role at Jefferies has her focusing on sales of emerging market fixed-income eurobonds to institutional investors in Germany, Austria, the U.K. and other countries ...
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• JPMorgan Hires Lawyer as New China Head

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  JPMorgan Chase has hired Zili Shao, the head of the law firm Linklaters Asia practice and a major deal-maker, to lead its own efforts in China.
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• China Asks Its Banks to Slow Down

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Chinese banking regulators are putting pressure on the countrys banks to raise more capital and temper their rapid growth in lending, in the clearest signs yet of official concern about the sustainability of the nations credit boom, senior Chinese bankers said Monday.
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• BofA May Extend C.E.O. Search into 2010, Report Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Bank of America may extend its search for a new chief executive into next year if its board is unable to pick a candidate in the next four days, Bloomberg News reported.
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• Dimon Seen as Successor to Geithner, Report Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Several U.S. policy makers consider JPMorgan Chase s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, The New York Post reported.
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• Execs Kept Wealth as Banks Failed, Study Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  It is an urban myth that executives at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were wiped out along with their companies, a new study says, suggesting that the prevalent reasoning about pay incentives may be flawed.
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