Investment banking

Record fines that the world's biggest investment banks are expected to pay in the coming months reflect years of frustration among U.S. regulators that their investigations were being hampered by unmonitored messaging among bankers.

As summer nears its end, finance-industry rookies are relishing their freedom while some fret over what it means for their future careers. Anxiety is simmering in Wall Street's kinder era for incomers, according to interviews with 10 young bankers.

Corporations are navigating shifting geopolitics, and M&A bankers are advising them as they consider selling off faraway units and focusing more on assets closer to home or in friendlier countries.

A warning for investment bankers who enjoyed lavish bonuses for 2021, when banks opened their wallets to reward busy dealmakers amid a war for talent: Don't expect a repeat this year.

Former Goldman Sachs Group vice president Brijesh Goel pleaded not guilty to charges that he illegally traded on confidential information he obtained while working at the investment bank.

Former Goldman Sachs Group banker Brijesh Goel was released on $500,000 bail after being charged with insider trading.

UBS signaled that it’s part of a broad probe by U.S. regulators into messaging by bank employees that’s likely to saddle lenders with fines of about $1 billion.

The Cleveland company says a second-quarter decline in investment banking and debt placement revenues won’t change its plans to keep hiring bankers to expand that business.

Regulators are poised to extract about $1 billion in fines from the five biggest U.S. investment banks for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps.

The banks have reportedly facilitated trades of Russian sovereign and corporate debt. Two Democrats in Congress want more information, saying that the dealings, though legal, may undermine efforts to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for the invasion of Ukraine.