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GIC and Caisse lead race for Axa Private Equity

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Canadian investor and Singapore wealth fund in pole position to acquire European buyout firm


Russian banks eye expansion on a new front

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Sberbank, VTB Capital and Otkritie have international as well as domestic aspirations



Bankers fear bonus sting from ECB lending

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Bankers are shunning cheap money on offer over concerns it could be viewed by regulators as state aid


Greater risk-taking pays for US banks

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are likely to have benefited after raising their risk appetite late last year



Former TCI and Citadel duo start hedge fund

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Hedge fund venture has already lined up at least $75m in funding


Afme voices cost fears over EU rating rules

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Top European financial trade body warns of soaring cost of regulatory capital



GXG Markets mulls bid for Plus

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Danish-regulated SME stock market operator emerges as possible bidder for UK junior market


City rents back at 25-year lows

News update in the category Economy on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 1:00 PM

Prime rents in the City of London are now lower than they were 25 years ago, when Big Bang ushered in American and European investment banks with a seemingly limitless appetite for office space