Temple Associates

This headline says it all. The hottest (or most hyped, depending on your point of view) new issue deal of the year, maybe decade, and one o...

Says today's headline in a newspaper ( City AM ). To leave the decision about whether or not a CDS pays out in a 'credit event' ...

As some in the Media and Analyst community may want you to believe. I am the first to be sceptical when banks make grandiose announcements ...

During the court case in which former senior credit traders of Credit Suisse are accused of manipulating the valuations of their trading bo...

Reports of big trading losses at major investment banks seem to indicate that the human species - especially the one responsible for oversig...

The headlong rush into the commodities business may not be as profitable as banks and brokers expect. Each commodity requires special skill...

We agree with Chris Whalen, MD of Institutional Risk Analytic s, when he predicts that smaller firms will gain market share in investment b...

Oswald Gruebel, himself a trader by background, says that UBS wants to take more risk in order to increase profits from Investment Banking...

Andy Kessler is always interesting to read. In his latest piece in the Wall Street Journal he makes a pessimistic prognosis for the inves...

When the prominent banking analyst Meredith Whitne y predicts substantial job cuts in the investment banking industry it pays to listen. A...

We are not able to confirm details in today's New York Times article about the lack of support for Dick Bove . BankAtlantic , a Florida...

A quick glance at the stock price history of Deutsche Bank illustrates how difficult it is to make sustainable profits out of investment ba...