Aleksandrs Rozens

A Federal Reserve decision that will let many banks pay dividends again is another sign that the equity markets have returned to health, and it likely will stoke investor demand for financials, according to Mary Ann Deignan, head of equity capital markets in the Americas for UBS.

According to a company memo obtained Friday, Lynch has “decided to leave and pursue opportunities outside the firm.”

Even after news of his firm's deal with Tri-Artisan started filtering through the financial markets in early January, John Sorte, Morgan Joseph's CEO, was still getting calls ...

According to a company memo, “a big driver of [Morgan Stanley's] future success will be the continued build-out of our sales and trading platform and, in particular, our strategy and footprint in fixed income."

Rosenthal had been chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and head of corporate strategy of Morgan Stanley with responsibility for overseeing the integration of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since January 2010.

Emerging markets M&A totaled $378.5 billion – 17% of all M&A. That is the largest percentage on record.

O’Neill began his Wall Street career at L.F. Rothschild & Co. in 1972. At Rothschild, he worked with financial institutions in the firm’s bank service group. By 1984, he was appointed managing director of the group which then had 55 dealmakers.

Most recently, Casesa led Casesa & Co., an advisory firm serving corporations, investors and governments in the auto industry. Prior to that he served as managing director and global coordinator for automotive research at Merrill Lynch and managing director at Wertheim Schroder & Co.

Winkler joined UBS in 2003 from Credit Suisse First Boston where he specialized in TMT M&A for five years. He began his career in July 1997 at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell as a member of the M&A team.

Daniel Mendonça Barros was named CEO of the UBS broker-dealer and head of the UBS securities business in Brazil, effective when UBS' acquisition of Link Investimentos closes, expected in the fourth quarter.

When it comes to Dodd-Frank legislation, Henry Kaufman said “the greatest failing [of the law] is that it did not deal correctly with the problem of the extraordinary concentration of assets held by a small number of financial institutions.”

Emerging markets accounted for 27% of all merger activity in the first nine months of the year - a 62.9% increase from the first three quarters of 2009.

Nomura Securities International Inc. said on Monday that it hired Pascal Bandelier and Paul Sangimino as co-heads of U.S. cash equities in New York.

Moelis & Co. said on Tuesday it acquired Gracie Credit, a multi-strategy credit management firm, as part of the New York investment bank’s efforts to expand its own asset-management business.

During his 12-year career with Goldman Sachs, Winegar worked in New York and Hong Kong. He has been in Hong Kong since 2005 and led the legal coverage team for investment banking, capital markets and principal investment areas for Goldman Sachs in Asia, excluding Japan.

The U.S. share of the single AIG rescue exceeded the size of France’s entire $35 billion capital injection program and the bailout was nearly half the size of Germany’s $133 billion program.

Moody's on Tuesday affirmed the long-term and short-term ratings of Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. At the same time, the rating agency changed its outlook on the banks to negative from stable.

Goldman’s settlement with the U.S. government comforted some Wall Street analysts who track the bank on Friday and news of the settlement spurred at least one of them to change their outlook on the company.

Volatility in foreign exchange markets always helps Wall Street trading desks as investors and corporate Treasurers look to manage changes in currencies. But, does a drop in the value of the euro or the yen against the greenback chip away at their earnings which are reported in U.S. dollars? That may not be the case, according to a report published by analysts at Bernstein Research on Wednesday.

Goldman Sachs may take on more risk, but it manages it better, according to a JPMorgan Cazenove report published on Friday in which analysts upgraded Goldman to “overweight” from “neutral.”