Banking

By Robert Schmidt and Jesse Hamilton Were history a guide, Brian Brooks would be spending the last days of the Trump administration enjoying the Washington view from his spacious government office and contemplating his next career move. Instead, the chief overseer of the largest U.S. banks is infuriating Wall Street. As acting head of the…

Financial Services The report stated that the energy and power sector generated the highest investment banking fees for the aforementioned period. Published 3 days agoon January 13, 2021 Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2020, recorded its lowest investment banking fees in the last six years, recording an estimated $523.7 million for the first nine months of the…

Banking analyst expert Kokkie Kooyman outlines his confidence in the sector and the fundamentals underpinning his investment thesis. Despite the sector rallying over 30% in the last quarter of 2020, Kokkie believes there is far more upside to the share prices in the unloved banking sector. Basel III is a global regulatory framework on bank…

Bank buildings at Toronto’s financial district on Sept. 3, 2020. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Canada’s banking regulator will not yet consider lifting restrictions on banks’ dividends and share buybacks introduced at the start of the pandemic, even though the largest lenders continue to amass growing stockpiles of surplus capital. As parts of the country…

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A man wearing a mask walks past the US Federal Reserve building in Washington DC on April 29, 2020. Liu Jie/Xinhua/Getty Images Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In this week’s episode…

On Monday, with a rollout full of social media fanfare and a declaration of intent on the New York Times opinion page, the workers of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the formation of a union. Counting somewhere around 250 Alphabet workers in the United States as initial members—the number seemed to increase throughout the day—the…

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Sipa/AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. It seems clear now why the Trump administration fought so hard to avoid making public the details of the waivers it granted to White House staffers who might…

Even before the 2020 election cycle, centrist Democrats had a habit of portraying leftists and progressives as unflinching ideologues imposing purity tests on their fellow party members. Counter-examples, of course, have abounded. And now there’s a particularly good one in the Georgia runoff election ending January 5. Politicians and organizations that backed Bernie Sanders in…