All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Commercial & Retail Banking

A number of large banks are looking at severely depressed stock prices and multiples that have dropped to book value or below. Is now the time for a buyer to step up and buy a struggling bank? If not, when does it make sense for a buyer to cut a deal? Will existing M & A deals still close? What...

Considering the current fall-out in Commercial Lending with the big banks (most of which were deservingly so), such as Wachovia, Chase, and Bank of America, the Credit Union field has such great opportunities to grow their market-share if they just decided to move into the 19th Century, instead of living...

US Fed chairman Bernanke said banks are facing crisis and plan to reduce rate again to put the economy of US on it normal track, but with US banks still facing credit squeeze and the war of Iraq still draw out billion of dollars, the confidence to economy in the country is devastating,...

The U.S. subprime market crisis has affected another bank, HSBC, who will take a $17.2 billion writedown in losses for 2007, however, not all the news is bad for HSBC. HSBC sold its HSBC France bank branches to Banque Populaire for $3.2 billion. Rumors were rampant that HSBC wanted to sell HSBC France...

Like natural storms, almost all financial storms can be detected and avoided before they happen. Unfortunately, time and again financial crises ravage corporations, nations and the global economy. The cause of that is the fact that professionals have no idea about the ecological and systematic nature...

In November 2007, Wal-Mart de México (WMT) opened its first consumer bank, Banco Wal*Mart, in Toluca – an industrial town near Mexico City. The company plans to launch 80 more branches by the end of 2008. Will this initiative be successful? Will the established Mexican banking community suffer...

Implications: 1. Evasion of financial problems leads to questions of the Institutions INTERNAL oversight. 2.Tighter controls of this  complex financial posturing may lead to stricter controls forced by the Regulatory Authorities. 3.Sovereign Wealth Funds have been accumulating share and wealth...

Like clockwork, you should expect to see these CDO induced writedowns to occur going forward for investment banks. One of the key reasons is the untold story in all these news: the rapid devaluation of non-rated CDO bonds (NR tranches) held at all these financial institutions that indulged in CDO making...

More bad news could pave the way for further buy-ins by foreign investors, such as the Qatar Investment Authority.  "The final determination of these reductions will depend on further results of our review and continuing market developments," the bank said.  Read: Expect more bad news. ...

The referred  article compares  the  simultaneous  failure of  the twin  engines  of  the  BA  flight  from  China  to  Heathrow to  the  failure  of  the  banking  and  financial  markets ...