Cuts are said to have gone down at the House of Diamond. Read more »
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Bob Diamond Has The Home Phone Numbers Of 100,000 Kids Who Will Gladly Take Your Job For Half The Pay…Just Something To Keep In Mind
By Bess Levin
“We’re entering the year-end process of compensation reviews. I think it’s an open discussion during the year of how businesses and how individuals perform and now we’re just trying to execute on the balance that we all try and strike between being responsible and being competitive. I think people get it. I think industry compensation is down this year because the performance in the industry is down. So I think they get it…I think if we weren’t treating [top producers] fairly we would look at it objectively and try and get to the underlying causes, but I think everyone has a decision to make about what industry they want to work in or what firm they want to work for… Not everyone wants to be in this industry. But I’ll give you a statistic that is important. Last year, we had applications from 107,000 kids at university, of which we had positions for 1,500. So there’s still a lot of people who want to come into the financial services industry.” [Bloomberg TV]
Last week Goldman and Morgan Stanley dropped sneaky hints about maybe changing their accounting so they could lend their way into more M&A deals. But this week we’re back to Barclays lending its way into more M&A deals, and Skip McGee got a little excited about it for DealBook:
“We’ve long had a big-boy M.& A. business,” Hugh E. McGee III, Barclays’ head of investment banking and a Lehman veteran, said in an interview. “And now we’ve got a big-boy checkbook.”
That’s a pleasingly straightforward take on the Barclays rises from Lehman’s ashes story, in which Lehman bankers find it quite congenial to be able to win deals by lending gobs of money to companies to pay for their mergers. Not that that’s how Barclays wins mandates or anything:
But Mr. McGee said the bank’s aim was not to rely on lending to get into deals. Barclays is less likely to make a giant loan commitment if it is not one of the lead advisers on a transaction, he said, and is being discerning about to whom it lends.
“We want to lead with our relationships and then use our balance sheet,” he said. “We don’t want to lead with our balance sheet.”
So is that working? Just for fun/to play with the Secret Dealbreaker Bloomberg/to make some charts, I made some charts. Read more »
Yesterday afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had frozen the assets of “purported” Boston-based quant named Andrey C. Hicks. Purported because, was he actually a quant? Not so much! Other small inaccuracies in his story with which the regulator took issue, describing the total as Hicks’ “brazen web of lies”: Read more »
Only if your flight is under four hours, if you leave the office past ten, and if you’re working and hungry before 9PM but still- this hurts.
To: IBD EMEA
From: Richard Blackburn and Chris Winchenbaugh
Cc: IBD ExCo, IBD COO’s, Talent Management
Date: 3 October 2011
Subject: 4th Quarter Savings InitiativesWe have done a great job this year driving our business forward and delivering on revenue and market share. Importantly, our division has been vigilant on costs and we have been able to manage our overall cost structure aggressively. However, as you are all aware, we continue to operate in a difficult environment, and we have more to do on cost savings.
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Barclays Will Have To Hire A Helper Next Time It Plans To Maybe Hose A Sell-Side Client
By Matt Levine
A while back Del Monte Foods agreed to be bought by KKR, with Barclays advising Del Monte on the merger. After the deal was announced, Barclays ran a go-shop period for Del Monte, which found no better bidders. The thing about that was that Barclays was providing KKR’s financing for the deal – and that KKR was paying Barclays more than Del Monte was. Some people thought that was kind of shitty, they sued, a Delaware court agreed, it enjoined the deal, a boutique bank (Perella Weinberg) had to run a second go-shop, there was a lot of weeping and wailing and judges saying things like:
Barclays secretly and selfishly manipulated the sale process to engineer a transaction that would permit Barclays to obtain lucrative buy-side financing fees. On multiple occasions, Barclays protected its own interests by withholding information from the Board that could have led Del Monte to retain a different bank, pursue a different alternative, or deny Barclays a buy-side role. Barclays did not disclose the behind-the-scenes efforts of its Del Monte coverage officer to put Del Monte into play. Barclays did not disclose its explicit goal, harbored from the outset, of providing buy-side financing to the acquirer.
It was a thing.
The bank will continue what is started earlier this year. Read more »
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