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Business Moves

Standard Chartered buys boutique firm Gryphon Partners to strengthen its advisory capabilities in the mining sector in Australia and Canada.
By Sameera Anand | 6 September 2011
The two finance titles add to Haymarket Media’s sporting heritage by signing a shirt sponsorship deal with SCAA Causeway Bay rugby club in Hong Kong.
By Leigh Powell | 2 September 2011
The Hong Kong stock exchange is in talks to create a joint venture with Shanghai and Shenzhen.
By Lillian Liu | 19 August 2011
Chicago-based law firm Kirkland & Ellis poaches top partners from Skadden Arps, Latham & Watkins and Allen & Overy.
By Nick Ferguson | 11 August 2011
M&A
HSBC sells its US monoline credit card and private-label credit card business to Capital One for more than $30 billion, as group chief executive Gulliver delivers on his ...
By Sameera Anand | 11 August 2011
HSBC China becomes the first foreign member of the Shanghai Futures Exchange and intends to focus on gold trading.
By Rupert Walker | 1 August 2011
Russia's VTB Capital wins an investment banking licence from the SFC allowing it to facilitate deal flow for Russian clients looking to Asia for liquidity.
By Lara Wozniak | 7 July 2011
The New York boutique advisory firm has hired Rob Agnew to help it exploit opportunities among middle-market technology companies.
By Nick Ferguson | 7 July 2011
Citi takes a 9.9% stake in Vietnam’s Horizon Securities as it further builds its Asean markets business.
By Lara Wozniak | 4 July 2011
M&A
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) and Russian Trading Systems (RTS) are poised to finalise their merger on Monday.
By Lara Wozniak | 30 June 2011
M&A
StormHarbour announces that Asuka DBJ Partners has become a strategic investor in its Japan securities firm.
By Lara Wozniak | 29 June 2011
The joint venture with First Capital Securities will enable J.P. Morgan to underwrite domestic equity and bond issues in China.
By Anette Jönsson | 29 June 2011
Macquarie's Mark Matthews jumps ship to Julius Baer, while his new boss at the Swiss boutique private bank, Dr Lee Boon Keng, gets a leg up.
By Sameera Anand | 15 June 2011
China's biggest stockbroker will pay $374 million for a minority stake in CLSA and a 19.9% stake in Credit Agricole Cheuvreux, after initial plans to combine their businesses ...
By Anette Jönsson | 13 June 2011
The JV will be able to underwrite domestic A-share and bond issues and will enable Morgan Stanley to compete with key rivals Goldman Sachs and UBS on more equal terms in China.
By Anette Jönsson | 13 June 2011
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