frenzy news from FierceFinance

Would-be financial engineers are still in demand, even though the hiring frenzy has abated, reports Financial Week. More than half of recent graduates from top quant schools found jobs. In the boom... Read more...

This might get you punched in some offices: The current slowdown in deal making is a healthy thing. The case is really not hard to make, and Citigroup has made it well,... Read more...

When banks were in a frenzy of preferred share issuance not too long ago, a few analysts raised the issue of eventual dilution. Now that Read more...

When the Wall Street Journal--still the paper of record in the industry--suggested Merrill Lynch was using some Enron-like techniqies to minimize writedowns, it hit like a bombshell. I imagine the... Read more...

Many of you are following the private equity tax hike battle with obvious self-interest. With the hearings this week, the issue has really heated up. In a way, this is the result of a backlash of... Read more...

When Merrill Lynch bought First Franklin, Morgan Stanley bought Saxon Capital and Deutsche Bank bought MortgageIT, a lot of people applauded. What a great strategic move to lock in supply for their... Read more...

Business Week Online has weighed in with a big story on the... Read more...

The real estate deal environment was in a frenzy until the the Blackstone Group's $39 billion buyout of Read more...

The takeover battle for ABN Amro speaks volumes about how much the thinking on mergers have changed in... Read more...

A group of executives at Citigroup are hoping to persuade CEO Charles Prince to make a bid for ABN Amro, the Dutch giant. That would be a whopper, a deal likely in the $80 billion range. It... Read more...