BAE among three circling for UK defence assets September 16, 2011 Three defence contractors are circling for the Defence Support Group as it prepares for privatisation. Defence minister Peter Luff told parliament that BAE systems, Babcock, and General Dynamics have all made approaches. BAE and Babcock have already had informal meetings with MoD officials, Luff said. The DSG provides maintenance repairs and replacements of a wide [...]
UBS ‘to axe thousands more jobs’ September 16, 2011 Swiss bank UBS, stung by a $2bn loss from rogue trading, is to scale back its investment bank, cutting thousands more jobs, it was reported today. Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, citing UBS insiders, said the bank would announce the major restructuring at a planned investor day on 17 November. A UBS spokesman declined to comment. The $2bn [...]
Man Utd given green light for Singapore listing September 16, 2011 Premier League football club Manchester United has received permission from the Singapore Exchange for a planned $1 billion (£633m) listing in a deal that would include non-voting preference shares, two sources told Reuters. The IPO would include stapled securities that bundle with ordinary and preferential shares, one of the sources told Reuters, consistent with expectations [...]
Rogue trader loses UBS $2bn September 16, 2011 UBS is expected to plunge bank into the red this quarter after the bank said a single rogue trader had cost it $2bn (£1.26bn). Ratings agency Moody’s has put the bank on review for a potential downgrade, it said late last night, citing “ongoing weaknesses in the group’s risk management and controls”. The trader at [...]
Banks granted liquidity boost September 16, 2011 A POTENTIALLY unlimited amount of dollar liquidity is to be injected into banking markets throughout the world, five central banks announced yesterday. It is hoped the measure will boost money markets in the wake of the Eurozone debt crisis. The Bank of England, European Central Bank (ECB), US Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and Swiss [...]
Myners slams bank reforms September 16, 2011 LORD Myners blasted the Vickers report into reforming the UK’s banks yesterday, arguing that it missed an opportunity to properly interrogate the sector. In a House of Lords debate the former City minister said the reforms would neither reduce the risk of banks causing another crisis, nor improve competition. The reforms would also saddle banks [...]
Euro crisis like 1,000 rogue traders September 16, 2011 BY far the biggest threat to the world economy comes from the Eurozone crisis. Rogue traders are a danger to us all, but well-capitalised large banks can cope quite easily with a $2bn loss (the well-deserved reputational disaster is another matter). That is why all recent global banking reforms have emphasised the need for financial [...]
Goldman cuts hedge fund September 16, 2011 GOLDMAN Sachs is to close its $1.6bn (£1bn) Global Alpha computer-based hedge fund after a poor trading performance and investor demands to pull out their money. Goldman has written to the fund’s investors to tell them the fund, which makes money by quantitative trading, would be wound down by the end of October. It has [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 16, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BTG PACTUAL LOOKS AT IPO AS IT EYES EXPANSION BTG Pactual, Brazil’s largest independent investment bank, is looking to hold an initial public offering as early as next year as one option to fund an ambitious expansion in Latin America. The move comes as the bank is also strengthening its foothold in Asia [...]
US Democrats back AT&T deal September 16, 2011 A group of influential Democrat lawmakers have written to US President Barack Obama calling on him to approve telecoms giant AT&T’s $39bn (£24.7bn) proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. The fifteen representatives have said the deal would help to cut unemployment and encourage investment at a time when the US badly needs it. [...]
