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Andrew Cuomo: Bank of America's bete noire

Andrew Cuomo has picked right up where Eliot Spitzer left off as a huge thorn in the side of Wall Street. Clearly, nothing exercises the New York AG quite like bonuses that he considers unfair. He's... Read more...

Joint probe of CDS market underway

In a collaboration that the New York Times calls unusual, New York state and federal prosecutors are joining forces to investigate possible manipulation in the market for credit default swaps. The... Read more...

Citi's research move a good idea

Citi has confirmed that it is indeed moving its stock research unit out of Smith Barney, where it was placed following the stock research scandals of yesteryear, and... Read more...

Recombining stock research and banking a good idea?

You can bet Eliot Spitzer is not taking this well: Citigroup is mulling a move that would fold its once-maligned equity research unit into the institutional securities... Read more...

Frank Quattrone laments lack of pre-IPO research

Frank Quattrone, who famously beat a long government attempt to convict him of obstruction, is certainly back on the technology industry banking scene. At a recent conference, he lambasted Eliot... Read more...

Grasso wins! Former NYSE chief can keep money

Dick Grasso's career seemed to be ending on a very sour note: the State of New York was making him something of a poster boy for his gargantuan pay over the years. In an ugly battle, then New York... Read more...

Grasso finally vanquishes Spitzer

Truth be told, former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso's battle against the former New York State Attorney General was looking better even before Eliot Spitzer imploded amid revelations that he used an... Read more...

Wall Street can't knock Grasso out

This seems like it happened a long time ago: Former NYSE chief Dick Grasso was locked in a do-or-die struggle with then state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over his eye-catching take of $185... Read more...

Citigroup anlayst gets it wrong--really wrong

Shannon Cowherd, bank analyst at Citigroup, raised eyebrows last week when she put out a note to clients estimating that the Royal Bank of... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Wachovia to take big charge due to court ruling; Och-Ziff founder fares well; and much more...

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