Bank & Financial

Magazine articles on banks, brokerages, and credit card companies.

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BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian	When The Bill Comes Due MasterCard's new IPO investors will have to pay the company's legal fees.
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Ian Rowley	Goldman Sachs Goes Shopping In Japan Why the bank is on such an aggressive investment tear in Japan.
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Roben Farzad	Filthy Rich, But Froogle Brilliant, careful, and skeptical, Googlers are the toughest customers in the Valley when it comes to investment services.
Registered Rep. November 23, 2005 Kevin Burke	Mom-and-Daughter Team Wins $2 Million Arbitration Over Sex Discrimination Merrill Lynch got dinged -- again -- for allegedly mistreating its female reps.
Registered Rep. November 22, 2005 John Churchill	For Merrill and Smith Barney Acquisitions, It's Wait n' See The financial firms' respective purchases would have added hundreds of regional brokers to their retail brokerage units, but many of these departing brokers have decided they don't want to work for a big firm and are finding sweet recruiting deals at smaller shops.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Matt Kovac	The Mainland Beckons To Taiwan's Banks Taiwan's banks can't have branches in China. The Tsai brothers of Fubon Financial Holding Co., Taiwan's third-largest bank, aren't deterred.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Tim Gray	Reuters Connects IM Players The new instant messaging service for financial institutions will save a paper trail for compliance purposes.
Registered Rep. November 18, 2005 Kristen French	Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Leslie Kramer	On-Demand Is in Demand While Wall Street firms may not be falling over themselves to replace their existing systems with on-demand technology and services, they are starting to weigh the cost and potential efficiency loss of not doing so.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Direct From the Source While the majority of financial services firms continue to obtain their U.S. equity data feeds from consolidators, some brokerage firms are shifting to technology companies that can process direct exchange feeds and present ECN's full depth-of-book order books as part of a hosted solution.
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