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Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank (trading as Barclays, formerly Barclays Capital) is the investment banking division of the British multinational Barclays bank headquartered in London.

Gulf Finance House

Gulf Finance House is an Islamic investment bank with headquarters in Bahrain Financial Harbour, Bahrain.

Hector Sants

In March 1998, as a result of the merger of UBS with Swiss Bank Corporation, Sants became Joint Head of European Equities at investment bank Warburg Dillon Read, which itself had been created by SBC in 1997 as a result of acquisitions and mergers.

Martin A. Siegel

Martin A. Siegel (born 1948) is a former respected investment banker who became embroiled in the insider trading scandals of the 1980s, alongside Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken.

Orphans International

In response to the crisis facing orphaned children around the world, former investment bank employee Jim Luce founded Orphans International in 1999.

Real estate investment trust

J-REIT securities are traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and most service providers of the J-REITs are Japanese real estate companies, Japanese conglomerates and foreign investment banks.

Wheelock Whitney, Jr.

Whitney was a successful investment banker from 1957 until 1972, when he left the industry to teach at the Carlson School of Business.


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African Investment Bank

Twenty-seven African countries signed the act, which provided for establishing a wide variety of institutions, including the Pan-African Parliament; Court of Justice; African Central Bank; African Monetary Fund; and African Investment Bank.

Albert Gordon

Albert Hamilton Gordon (1901-2009), head of investment bank Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Alex Brown

Alex. Brown & Sons, the first investment bank in the United States, founded by Alexander Brown in 1800

Askar Capital

As an authorized Investment Bank, Askar Capital was regulated by the Financial Supervisory Authority, headquartered in Reykjavik.

Bernard Magrez

In December 2008 it was reported that the investment bank Lazard was offering Château Latour for sale, and Magrez was suggested as the likely buyer.

Cowen

Cowen Group, the holding company for Cowen and Company, LLC, a U.S. based Investment Bank

Eleanor Legge-Bourke

Her father, Heneage Legge-Bourke, is senior director, financial engineering, with the French bank Natixis (and before that with its predecessor IXIS Corporate Investment Bank), specializing in property and renewable energy finance.

Fabrizio Cerina

Following a spin-off of the assets of Attel, Cerina rebuilt the business through Crédit des Alpes, now a successful investment bank advising on large international transactions, including being credited for putting together the US$4.2 billion acquisition by Vivendi of Brazil telecoms company Global Village Telecom (GVT) in 2009—one of the largest telecoms deals in the world.

Jamie Byng

When Canongate was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1994, Byng, then in his mid-20s, instigated a buyout, aided by his business partner Hugh Andrew, his stepfather (former BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland) and then father-in-law (co-chairman of the multinational investment bank Salomon Smith Barney).

Jenrette

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, defunct U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin in 1959

John Crosby Brown

John Crosby Brown (1838 – June 25, 1909) was a partner in the investment bank Brown Bros. & Co., which was founded by his father James Brown and his uncles, the sons of Alexander Brown of Baltimore.

Lesson of the Evil

He graduates from Harvard College with a MBA, and works at Morgenstern, an European investment bank, for two years.

National Bank of Greece

In 2002 NBG merged with ETEBA (National Investment Bank for Industrial Development), but NBG's attempted merger with Alpha Bank fell through.

Paul Nitze

In 1929 he joined investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. where he remained until founding his own firm, P.

Peter Ackerman

From 1978 to 1990, Ackerman was Director of International Capital Markets at investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Qadbak Investments

German automotive conglomerate BMW were advised during the planning phases of Qadbak's takeover by leading British investment bank Rothschild, whose managing director Meyrick Cox had stated that Qadbak was "a wholly reputable organisation".

Richard B. Handler

Richard B. (Rich) Handler (born May 23, 1961) is Chief Executive Officer and Director of Leucadia National Corporation, a diversified investment holding company with its largest operating company being investment bank Jefferies.

Social Investment Wholesale Bank

The creation of a Social Investment Bank was a key recommendation of the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, led by Sir Ronald Cohen.

Solow Building

Well-known tenants include the U.S. Headquarters of the French Corporate and Investment Bank Natixis and private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (42nd fl.), Apollo Management (43rd/48th fl.), Silver Lake Partners (32nd fl.), and Highland Capital Management (38th fl.).

Vivian Imerman

In London, he met brothers Robert Tchenguiz and Vincent Tchenguiz; they partnered and purchased a minority interest in the distiller Kyndal (now Whyte and Mackay) with a £190 million loan from German investment bank WestLB.

Vodafone Portugal

The initial group of shareholders was led by Portuguese investment bank Banco Espírito Santo, Portuguese conglomerate Amorim and USA's Pacific Telesis, owner of mobile operator PacTel Cellular.

Wilhelm Molterer

Wilhelm Molterer (born 14 May 1955 in Steyr) is Vice-President and member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB).