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Here's one way to avoid the PR (PR news) woes that have beset the likes of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS): Move back toward the era of pre-IPO, private partnerships. Barclays Capital (Barclays news) is... Read more...

JPMorgan (JPM) is regularly mentioned as one of the few banks that has been able to emerge from the financial crisis in better shape than before. The bank was the only one not to post a loss during... Read more...

There's a lot of investment banking (investment banking news) work to be had in the noncorporate world--municipal bonds, public-private financings, country debt work and the like. But when the... Read more...

Traditional commercial banks (commercial banks news) have long had a love-hate relationship with investment banking (investment banking news). There was a day when the top investment banks were... Read more...

There's a sense that the top investment banks are looking at another fine year in 2010, to follow their surprisingly strong finish in 2009. Which was driven in large part by FICC activity. Banks like... Read more...

The top investment banks have been saying loud and clear that the trading risks they're taking on these days stem from agency trades not so much proprietary trades. But a Reuters columnists thinks... Read more...

The financial sponsorship business was great for the top investment banks--until the private equity business imploded in the credit crunch. That heated up a lot of the simmering tensions that were... Read more...

Since the government gave up its prosecution of Frank Quattrone, he has slowly worked his way back up the food chain in Silicon Valley. Now, as the New York Times makes clear, he's once again on top.... Read more...

For a brief moment not too long ago, special purpose acquisition companies seemed to be a godsend for investment banks hit by the dearth of IPOs. Lots of people seemed enamored with the concept,... Read more...

Goldman Sachs' top executives sold about $700 million in Goldman Sachs shares following the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September, reports the Financial Times. The selling came while the firm... Read more...