The total amount of leveraged finance issued so far this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has already blown last year's sum out of the water, according to a Moody's report.
Goldman Sachs is hosting its first ever leveraged finance conference next week as the Wall Street bank tries to strengthen its position in debt underwriting and looks for new avenues of growth.
Jefferies Group is reorganizing businesses that help fund corporate deals, elevating senior investment banker Jim Walsh to oversee its leveraged finance unit as Kevin Lockhart leaves, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Citigroup said Barbara Matas, chairman of leveraged finance, is leaving after about three decades at the bank.
Macquarie Capital has announced the appointments of Michael Barrish and Jeff Abt as Managing Directors in its U.S. Debt Capital Markets ('DCM') Group.
Goldman Sachs named A.J. Murphy co-head of leveraged finance in the Americas.
It is exceedingly rare for Goldman to hire anyone, let alone a woman, laterally into its coveted partnership ranks.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is boosting the target size for wealth-management takeovers to more than $951m as it seeks to increase profit from the business.
The Wall Street Journal reports that BarCap's 5-year 'push' for its US leveraged finance unit is paying off, as the firm currently stands in fourth postion in the league table in the first-quarter (up from eighth in the same period in 2010).