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Trading or Investment Banking: Choose Your Financial Career Path
Traders buy and sell securities in capital markets for clients. Investment bankers help raise capital and facilitate mergers. Both careers require strong analytical skills but different educational preferences. Trading and investment banking…
85% of banks' corporate clients plan to engage with a non-bank financial institution within the next year as competition with private capital intensifies
85% of banks' corporate clients plan to engage with a non-bank financial institution within the next year as competition with private capital intensifies Banks look to bolster AI expertise with external hires (40%) as upskilling proves challenging…
Private equity firm Whiteoak backs century-old industrial designer
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
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Bond vs. Stock Markets: Key Differences Explained
Stocks represent ownership in a company, while bonds are loans to entities. Stocks bring potential for higher returns but come with more risk. Bonds provide steady income through interest payments. Diversifying with both stocks and bonds can…
Foreign investors records US$16.8bil outflow across eight Asian markets last week
KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign investors extended a four-week streak of net selling across eight Asian markets, with net outflows totalling US$16.8 billion, according to MBSB Investment Bank Bhd. Vietnam was the only country to receive net foreign inflows…
PE heavyweights sharpen their pencils for PEP's Up Education
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
Bank stocks have been crushed this year. 2 of our names should weather the storm
A trifecta of uncertainty — from the Iran war to AI disruption to private credit — is crushing financial stocks this year. While shares of Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo have been caught up in the downdraft, their businesses should be…
Seven departed Perpetual's Fordham ahead of $500m wealth sale
Bain Capital sealed the deal for Perpetual's wealth management unit on Monday, announcing it had finally closed the book on a near-2½ year corporate break-up saga. The transaction, first revealed by Street Talk over the weekend, will see…
Nick Curtis seeks to sell $100m of Firmus shares ahead of IPO
No sight of Firmus Technologies' hotly anticipated IPO yet. But if you want to buy shares in the $6 billion AI factory start-up, just ask a broker. Fund managers over the past fortnight have fielded calls from advisers understood to be rounding up…
Roll up, roll up! Horizon Nexus heads north for PKF carve-out
The hotel bills of former PwC operatives Rob Silverwood and Sanjiv Jeraj must be through the roof. Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories.
Bank of Nova Scotia Invests $50.41 Million in Amer Sports, Inc. $AS
Bank of Nova Scotia bought a new position in Amer Sports, Inc. (NYSE:AS - Free Report) during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund bought 1,450,500 shares of the company's…
Hunt for the next maths genius gets a boost in Sydney
Australia's ability to develop and retain world-standard maths brains to be deployed on artificial intelligence and investment banking has been boosted by $55 million in new funding for the country's leading research institute on the science of…
Trading ideas: Sunway, IJM, Chin Hin, EcoWorld, EWI, SunREIT, EXSIM Hospitality, Inta Bina, Propel Global, Scientex, Careplus, Empire Premium, Cahya Mata, Theta Edge, NexG
Sunway Bhd 's takeover bid for IJM Corporation Bhd is “not fair” and “not reasonable”, and shareholders should reject the offer, said independent adviser M&A Securities. Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd has issued a…
KLK's FY26 prospects solid on upstream, property
PETALING JAYA: Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd 's (KLK) prospects for its financial year ending Sept 30, 2026 (FY26), look solid, backed by a steady growth outlook for its core upstream business and an additional boost from its property development…
'Biblical disaster': Trump plots a radical move to control oil prices
The Trump administration is considering intervening in oil markets to push down prices despite warnings that it would risk a “biblical disaster”. Doug Burgum, the US interior secretary, said officials had discussed trading in the…
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