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This little bank is cleaning up in 2015's hottest sector for M&A
Takeovers of drugmakers have reached record volumes in 2015, and Centerview Partners has been cashing in big.The boutique, started in 2006 by Blair Effron, has racked up $270 million or so in deal fees...
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Bitcoin keeps surging, makes another new high for 2015 (BTC)
2015 may be the year that bitcoin rebounded. The digital currency smashed through a new high for the year on Monday morning, trading at nearly $370 and continuing its impressive streak as of late....
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This is one Wall Street business that big banks won't lose to upstarts and...
Many of Wall Street's top banks just endured a difficult quarter, highlighted by earnings misses and the likelihood of lower bonuses. But there is one business that's booming, and – even better –...
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A 10-year-old cyber security company just raised $35 million from Goldman in...
Iboss, a ten-year-old cybersecurity company, raised $35 million from Goldman Sachs in its first-ever fundraising round.Started in 2005 by twin brothers Peter and Paul Martini in the aftermath of the...
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BlackRock's Larry Fink thinks Carl Icahn's cash cow 'can't last' (BLK)
Larry Fink thinks Carl Icahn's cash cow can't last. "The S&P 100 companies are paying out 108% of earnings through dividends and stock repurchases," Fink said. "That can't last." Fink got a chance...
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MORGAN STANLEY CEO: One thing we can do that no robot can (MS)
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman thinks that the robo-advisers crashing the wealth management industry and setting their sights on his clients are, well, a bunch of tools. "There are tools, and there...
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There's a big job opening at Morgan Stanley right now (MS, cmcsa)
Morgan Stanley needs a senior banker. Maybe, two. Robert Eatroff, a two-decade veteran of Morgan Stanley, is checking out it was announced earlier today. He spent 22 years with the bank, wrapping up...
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Bitcoin is going nuts
Another day, another monster run for bitcoin traders. Bitcoin was trading around $240 in the beginning of October. Now — after a gain of 10% on Tuesday added to its earlier run — it's closer to...
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Hedge fund legend Stan Druckenmiller raved about Amazon, one of his newest...
Legendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller says he loves Amazon because, unlike IBM, it's not focused on short-term quarterly earnings. "The last 19 quarters, Amazon has missed their quarterly...
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The 10 biggest mistakes you can make in a Wall Street job interview
It's job interview season on Wall Street.Over the coming weeks and months, recruiters from top investment banks will meet with tens of thousands of students on college campuses and during in-house...
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This convicted Ponzi-schemer may be responsible for bitcoin's massive price...
Bitcoin is ripping higher these days, and a report from the Financial Times suggests that a convicted Ponzi-schemer's latest enterprise could be behind the surge.Sergei Mavrodi runs the website MMM,...
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Getting sick in China might've been the best thing to happen to this startup...
Sometimes, an entrepreneur's 'eureka!' moment comes at the worst possible time. This, is one of those stories. The entrepreneur is Ryan Frankel, his startup is VerbalizeIt, a translation business....
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Deutsche Bank fired staff and is paying a $258M fine for violating sanctions...
Deutsche Bank is firing and disciplining staff and paying out a $258 million fine to regulators after it was found to have processed transactions for countries sanctioned by the US government over a...
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2 former Wall Streeters found an elegant solution to the biggest problem with...
The biggest problem with starting a killer watch collection — with some vintage pieces, of course — is making sure everything you buy is 100% authentic.TrueFacet is one solution to that problem.It's an...
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Bitcoin is exploding higher, but no one can agree on why (BTC, GBTC)
Bitcoin gained another 6% Wednesday, reaching a new high for the year.The cryptocurrency reached the $450 mark late in the day before falling back to $425. That's compared with around $250 a month...
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Wall Street banks are starting to throttle personal-finance startups (JPM,...
Wall Street banks have had enough of personal-finance apps scraping their data.The Wall Street Journal's Robin Sidel reports that Mint.com's personal-finance app has been "throttled" or that the data...
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Ex-JPMorgan broker pleads guilty to stealing $20 million to gamble and trade...
A former JPMorgan broker is facing a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $20 million in client money to gamble and invest in the market. Michael Oppenheim, of New Jersey,...
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Goldman Sachs is pulling out all the stops to hold on to its junior bankers (GS)
Entry-level jobs on Wall Street are notoriously grueling.Life as a junior banker has traditionally meant long hours, late nights, and doing the grunt work that the senior bankers pass on.Now, Goldman...
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Here's one analyst's 'liquidation scenario' for Valeant (VRX)
An analyst at Japanese investment bank Mizuho has outlined a "liquidation scenario" for Valeant Pharmaceuticals.Essentially, this is Mizuho's approximation of what would happen to the company's stock...
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Goldman Sachs forced Valeant’s CEO to sell 1.3 million of his shares on...
On Thursday, Goldman Sachs dumped 1.3 million shares of Valeant it was holding as collateral for the company's CEO, Michael Pearson.Pearson had pledged the 2 million shares to Goldman in exchange for a...
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