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Industry News
Where Prosecutors Might Focus in Their JPMorgan Inquiries
May 17, 2012 Steve Walker Business Analyst / PM - Associate, Goldman Sachs
By PETER J. HENNING JPMorgan Chase’s woes continue to grow after its disclosure of losses from a failed hedging strategy in its corporate bond portfolio. The bank is already the subject of an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and now the Federal Bureau of Investigation has ...
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UBS Profit Drops 54% in First Quarter
May 1, 2012 Steve Walker Business Analyst / PM - Associate, Goldman Sachs
By JULIA WERDIGIER UBS said on Wednesday that profit fell 54 percent in the first three months of the year after investment banking income dropped and the Swiss bank took an accounting charge on its own debt. Net income fell to 827 million Swiss francs ($910 million) in the first quart ...
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The Fog of Bank Accounting Adjustments
April 19, 2012 Steve Walker Business Analyst / PM - Associate, Goldman Sachs
By PETER EAVIS All companies emphasize the positive and underplay the negative. But banks may be taking this habit too far in their first-quarter earnings releases, many of which came out this week. Exhibit A is Bank of America’s first-quarter earnings release, which came out on Thursday mor ...
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Private Goldman Exchange Officially Closes for Business
April 13, 2012 Steve Walker Business Analyst / PM - Associate, Goldman Sachs
By PETER LATTMAN We hardly knew ye, GSTrUE. With Thursday’s initial public offering of the Oaktree Capital Group, a once-promising private Goldman Sachs stock exchange has officially come to an end. The backstory: In 2007, Goldman started its own marketplace for companies that ...
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How to create a branded resume that gets you noticed. Feb 21.
January 31, 2012 Barry Miller Manager Alumni Career Programs and Services, Pace University

All Finbox members invited for free. Email bmiller@pace.edu to sign up. Mention Finbox. You can share it with friends. Guests are invited.

February 21: How to Create a Branded Resume That Gets You Noticed

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2012 Can be a great year for you, if you follow the right steps
December 19, 2011 Barry Miller Manager Alumni Career Programs and Services, Pace University

I know what you are saying.  Is he nuts? Aren’t the predictions for 2012 dark? Is the economy really going to create more jobs? Are there not going to be more layoffs? These are legitimate questions. But, I review job openings everyday with my clients. There are certainly many out there, even o ...

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How will the economic crisis effect my job search?
September 02, 2011 Barry Miller Manager Alumni Career Programs and Services, Pace University

The events of the last few weeks have been unnerving to many of my clients. They wonder if they will ever get a job. They have had difficulty even before the last few weeks. Those professionals in the financial industry have seen a decline in jobs even prior to September, 2008. They wonder if the ...

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LinkedIn debuts Apply with LinkedIn, claims prominence
August 09, 2011 Jelma Smith Educator, government
Quicker or later, LinkedIn will find the right way to insinuate itself into the collection of every internet job candidate. By the company's own entrance, LinkedIn plans to become the entire world for internet career applicants with its new "Apply with LinkedIn” button. Many job recru ...
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Major Financial Firm Events
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Maalouf Ashford & Talbot Named Oil & Gas Law Firm of the Year - 2010
John J. MaaloufSenior Partner, Maalouf Ashford & Talbot, LLP
New York, New York – January 24, 2011 – Maalouf Ashford & Talbot, LLP, one of the world’s leading international oil & gas law firms, today announced that it has been chosen as the winner of the Corporate International Magazine 2010 Legal Award for Oil & Gas Law Firm of the Year in ...
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Major Event
Carlyle betting patience pays for India investment
Vishal MehtaSenior Financial Technology Recruiter, Andiamo Partners, Inc.
U.S. private equity giant Carlyle Group CYL.UL is betting patience will be rewarded in an Indian market where global players have had to content themselves almost exclusively with deals for minority stakes.

India's family-run and entrepreneur-driven firms have long been reluctant to sell out, preferr ...
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Major Event
AIG loses $2.4 billion on asset sales
Barry MillerManager Alumni Career Programs and Services, Pace University
By David Goldman, staff writer November 5, 2010: 7:56 AM ET 

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- AIG said Friday that it lost $2.4 billion in the third quarter on sales of insurance units, proceeds of which it plans to use to pay back the U.S. government.The loss was widely expected, as AIG continued to make ...
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Santander Misses Profit Targets on Rule Change
Chris TuronicaProject Manager, HSBC
Banco Santander, Spain’s largest bank, has announced profits short of 2010’s expectations, after posting earnings in the third quarter of 1.64 million euros, its lowest in four years.

The Spanish lender attributes the drop to a change in national regulations, which reduce the amount of time that ...
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