Smoothy chops uber banker Andrea Orcel has lost his criminal case against Spanish bank Santander. Below is a link to the FT piece on the topic:
https://www.ft.com/content/b8d88544-4f32-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5..
This piece - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/21/hong-kong-enlists-help-banking-heavyweights-win-london-stock/ - in the Sunday Telegraph's business section about Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing hiring HSBC to bolster to its bid for the London Stock Exchange caught Betaville's eye...
It has been brought to Betaville's attention that Investment bankers are all over WPP chairman Roberto Quarta, angling for permanent mandate as the company's financial advisor.
And you can see why corporate financiers are aggresively targeting the marketing services group set up by Sir Martin Sorrell in 1985...
Stockmarket cassandras at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan were out in force yesterday, warning of impending market crash.
So, several leading British newspapers, such as The Times, took those warnings seriously by splashing their business sections on the strategists' gloomy predictions. Here is a link to today's piece in the The Times: ..
The Mergermarket Group - publisher of Mergermarket, Dealreporter and Debtwire - has today announced the purchase of Tim Group, a technology platform that allows brokers and investors to share long/short and quantitative trading ideas. Here is the link:
http://timgroup.com/tim-group-acquired-by-mergermarket-group/..
The Mergermarket Group is in advanced discussions to buy financial technology company TIM Group from its founders and investors, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Well-placed sources said the Mergermarket Group, which is being advised Deloitte, has effectively agreed a deal with TIM Group's founders, Colin Berthoud and Richard Koppel, to purchase TIM Group for around £30 million...
Brokers at Bank of America Merill Lynch were yesterday pushing the line that a Severn Trent takeover by infrastructure funds is back on the cards (see below the original note).
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Another piece of random RARE has landed on my desk.
Word is Gazit Globe, the Tel Aviv-based shopping centre giant, is keen on buying out the remainder of Atrium European Real Esate Limited that it doesn't own.
Gazit Globe currently owns around 55pc of of Atrium, a Jersey-domiciled owner and operator of shopping centres in Central and Eastern Europe...