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Though it is a relatively tentative rise, risk trends seem to be broadly improving. The DailyFX Carry Trade Index has maintained the upward trajectory that has held since the March reversal.

Though it is a relatively tentative rise, risk trends seem to be broadly improving. The DailyFX Carry Trade Index has maintained the upward trajectory...

New regulations will limit rate hikes and fees. But look for card companies to respond with fewer cut-rate offers

New study conducted by credit Suisse has revealed that companies make very little use of the various investment options available to manage their spare funds.

It is a good time to be an equity capital markets banker. After several years on the periphery, while credit ruled global financial markets, ECM departments at the big investment banks are humming again and nowhere more so than in the City and Canary Wharf.

The Australian mortgage-backed bond market, which shut down last year in response to the global credit crisis, is showing tentative signs of life

Citigroup is evaluating the sale of its German retail banking operations, a move which shows chief executive Vikram Pandit's determination to shrink his bank's balance sheet in the wake of the credit crisis

Carlyle Group has agreed its biggest buyout since the credit crunch took hold after directors of Booz Allen Hamilton, the consultancy group, recommended a $2.54 billion sale of its US government business to the private equity firm.$

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Investment banking giant Lehman Brothers will begin trimming its workforce by around 5% starting on Monday, cable news network CNBC reported Friday. Lehman had previously announced it would lay off about 1,400 workers as part of a drive by Chief Executive Officer Dick Fuld to cut costs and refocus the bank's core businesses. A Lehman spokeswoman declined to comment on the report to MarketWatch Friday. In the aftermath of a global credit crunch and massive write downs on bad bets on mortgage securities, international banks have said they will cut as many as 70,000 jobs in the coming year.

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