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Under New Rules, Goldman Ponders a Leaner Future
November 13, 2012 Steve Walker Business Analyst / PM - Associate, Goldman Sachs

By WILLIAM ALDEN

Goldman Sachs is looking for fewer touches, at least in one sense.

The firm is relying more on technology and reducing expenses as it contends with new regulations and an uncertain market, said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman’s chief executive, at the Bank of America Merri ...

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NYSE Shareholders Embrace Deutsche Boerse Merger
July 8, 2011 Chris Turonica Project Manager, HSBC
The New York Stock Exchange, an icon of American capitalism, moved closer to ceding control to a German company Thursday, with few investors lodging any protest.

Some 65.6 percent of NYSE Euronext shareholders backed the $9.4 billion takeover of the company that owns the NYSE by Deutsche Boerse A ...
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As Net Stocks Sizzle, Zynga Aims High for Its I.P.O.
July 5, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
By EVELYN M. RUSLI

With a real-world profit and an inexhaustible supply of virtual cows, Zynga on Friday filed for what is expected to be one of the biggest Internet stock offerings ever, a debut whose fate is tied largely to that of Facebook’s.

Zynga, the online gaming company behind the Fa ...
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Europe Preps For New IPOs
June 27, 2011 Alain Nicolas VP, UBS
Following are some of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) under way in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region:

ISSUER DATE BOOKS LISTING EXPECTED BOOKRUNNERS

CLOSE LOCATION PROCEEDS

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Abracadabra! Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups
June 20, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

Over a decade ago, Internet companies promoted new ways to measure their business performance, introducing concepts like “eyeballs” and “mindshare” to investors.

Now the latest wave of Internet start-ups are adding their own particular yardsticks to the valua ...
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Stocks Cheapest in 26 Years as S&P 500 Falls
June 20, 2011 Kevin McEwing VP - Trader, Bank of America - Merrill Lynch
By Alexis Xydias

For the second time since the bull market began, profits are surging and stocks are falling.

Standard & Poor’s 500 Index companies will earn 18 percent more this year than in 2010, according to the average estimate of more than 9,000 analysts compiled by Bloomberg. Highe ...
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High-Speed Trading Reaches Saturation in the U.S. - Report
June 14, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
By Justin Grant

With high-frequency trading reaching saturation in the U.S. market, the nation's firms are focusing less on transaction speed, and are instead hunting for patterns in a broader pool of financial instruments, according to a Tabb Group report.

Since trading speeds can't get much ...
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Web IPO Boom Separates Venture Capital Haves From Have-Nots
June 14, 2011 Mark Goldfarb Algorithmic developer, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)
By Ari Levy

LinkedIn Corp. and Groupon Inc. are leading a surge in Web-company initial share sales that underscores a deepening chasm between the venture-capital industry’s haves and have-nots.

Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz are among the few firms ...
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Citigroup Card Customers’ Data Hacked
June 9, 2011 Karen Bennett Recruiter & HR Analyst, JPMorgan Chase
BY CHRIS V. NICHOLSON

Citigroup acknowledged on Thursday that unidentified hackers had breached its security and gained access to the data of hundreds of thousands of its bank card customers.

“During routine monitoring, we recently discovered unauthorized access to Citi’s account online, ...
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Proposed Regulations for SEFs Could Crimp Liquidity
June 9, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
By Gregory Taggart

As it pushes ahead with regulatory changes that promise better liquidity and price transparency in the derivatives marketplace, Washington has good intentions. First, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act seeks to disperse systemic risk by requiring cent ...
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Some Tech Start-Ups Struggle in Rising Tide of Fund-Raising
June 7, 2011 Xiao Leung Quant trader, Banc of America Securities
BY KEVIN ROOSE

When Chad Etzel and Paul Stamatiou began to raise additional money for their technology start-up in the fall of 2010, they were preparing for an investment frenzy.

The young entrepreneurs, who had already raised $200,000 for Notifo, their mobile notifications platform for busine ...
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Hacker Attacks Threaten to Dampen Cloud Computing's Prospects
June 6, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
The recent high-profile hacking of Google's Gmail service and Sony's Playstation gaming network is threatening to slow the take-off of the next big thing in the computing space -- the cloud.

Computer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing security issues to boost confidence in c ...
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NYSE Technologies Built It, But Will Firms Come?
June 3, 2011 Ravindra Rao Business Analyst, New York Life

When it comes to cloud computing, capital markets firms have adopted "private" clouds that run inside each bank's own data centers. But when it comes to the public cloud -- the cloud that everyone else in the world outsideof financial services considers the wave of the future -- financial ...

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Investor Hunger for Foreign Tech Stocks Overrides Risk
June 1, 2011 Chris Turonica Project Manager, HSBC
BY STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF

It doesn’t hurt to be known as the Google of Russia.

Shares of Yandex, the Russian search engine company, shot up more than 55 percent in their Nasdaq market debut last week. The stock’s rise illustrates investors’ voracious appetite for emerging-market investments ...
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Heated Frenzy for Tech I.P.O.’s Fails to Ignite Freescale
May 27, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

For the last several weeks, the market for initial public offerings looked red hot, thanks almost entirely to the eye-popping debut of the professional social network LinkedIn.

Shares in the Internet darling more than doubled in their first day of trading and have st ...
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Can Twitter Predict Stock Market Moves?
May 25, 2011 Ryan Taylor Project Manager - Technology, Morgan Stanley
By Len Costa

What happens when a 28-year-old British currency trader who previously sold a hair care business teams up with an international trio of informatics professors who publish an academic paper that purportedly unlocks the potential for Twitter to predict stock market moves?

They laun ...
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