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How should reverse break-up fees be valued?

September 5, 2008 — 1:44pm ET | By Jim Kim
If we were to assign reverse break-up fees an actual market value, such fees would constitute a bull market. How long would it be before banks started making markets in options and swaps on such... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Icahn's blog

May 19, 2008 — 6:59am ET
We were excited to hear that Carl Icahn was planning to start blogging with something called the Icahn Report. But TheDeal.com reports that his lawyers have put that on hold. Read more...

Kerviel a folk hero? Ouch

January 30, 2008 — 7:59am ET
This is the risk banks run when dealing with rogues. The Times writes that Read more...

How Kervial did it

January 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The question on everyone's mind is: how did he do it? Societe Generale believes that, Jerome Kervial placed large long bets in one portfolio and then created fake hedges in another portfolio. So... Read more...

Power in deals to shift to sellers?

January 4, 2008 — 7:59am ET
It has been a buyer's market--and contractual terms reflected that. But after a nasty spate of busted deals, headlined by the on-going Sallie Mae blow up, ClearChannel and others, the New York Times... Read more...

Merrill Lynch wins WSJ correction

November 29, 2007 — 7:59am ET
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...

At issue: timing of Citigroup announcement

November 13, 2007 — 7:59am ET
Did Citigroup wait too long to announce its massive writedowns? That is the question posed by Fortune magazine's Carol Loomis. She suggests the delay may not have been in keeping with disclosure... Read more...

Why young people want to be bankers

September 5, 2007 — 6:59am ET
According to a recent government report, investment banking pay is hitting absurd levels. The weekly pay in the profession is $8,367, compared with $841 for all private sector jobs. Are investment... Read more...

Is Eliot Spitzer changing his tune?

May 29, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Eliot Spitzer's wars, on mutual funds and sell-side research among other targets, really shook up the industry, to the glee of lawyers. But now that he is governor of New York, is he changing his... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: UBS banker also a filmmaker; New force: Icahn's son?; and much more...

April 22, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

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