Owen A. Radcliffe – Page 2 – Financial Updates

UK Court Blocks VTB’s £205M Recovery Claim Amid Sanctions & Insolvency Rift

The UK High Court rejected VTB Bank’s challen...

VTB claimed the 2025 rule amendments unlawful...

Administrators led by Teneo value VTB’s claim...

The ruling highlights how sanctions-driven re...

UK Court Upholds OFSI’s Sanctions Licence Cuts VTB’s £205M Claim to £188M

Europe Policy Banking

UK sanctions-hit VTB Bank lost its Administra...

The licence amendments required deductions fr...

The court held OFSI acted lawfully, rationall...

The decision confirms UK regulators’ wide dis...

Corporate Finance 2025: How US Banks Lead on Revenue as Europe Scrambles to Catch Up

Americas Firms Banking

Large corporate and investment banks in Europ...

Performance gaps are widening as cost-efficie...

U.S. fee pools in M&A and ECM still far outpa...

Banks are leaning on AI, automation, restruct...

How Morgan Stanley Beat Goldman as HK’s ECM Market Roars Back

Asia Markets Banking

Hong Kong’s equity capital markets rebounded ...

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs dominated Ho...

Morgan Stanley ultimately overtook Goldman in...

The boom reflects Chinese issuers shifting fr...

Goldman Sachs Tops JPMorgan in UK M&A Fees for Q1 2025 Amid Weak IPO Activity

Europe M&A Banking

Goldman Sachs has overtaken JPMorgan as the t...

Goldman earned about $163 million in UK dealm...

While Goldman leads UK fees and global M&A by...

Goldman’s UK lead depends on continued robust...

Haiti’s Amputee Banker Races Towards 2026 Winter Paralympics amid Immigration Hurdles

Global Firms Banking

Ralf Etienne, a 36-year-old one-legged Bank o...

After losing his leg in Haiti’s 2010 earthqua...

U.S. immigration policy changes that halted g...

Bank of America’s flexible support, including...

LVMH Wins Partial Defamation Suit: What It Means for Analyst Integrity & Disclosures

Europe FYI Consumer

LVMH sued Morgan Stanley in 2002, alleging it...

In 2004 a Paris Commercial Court found Morgan...

On appeal in 2006, the court upheld defamatio...

The parties settled in 2007, ending litigatio...

When Sanctions Meet English Contracts: Enforcing Arbitration & Choice-of-Law Clauses

Global Risk Banking

Post-2022 Russian sanctions have triggered di...

In JP Morgan v VTB, the English Commercial Co...

Related cases involving VEB and RusChemAllian...

These rulings highlight the need for financia...

Why EU IPOs Lag: Structural Barriers & the Urgent Need for Integrated Reform

Europe Markets Financial Services

AFME argues that a meaningful revival of EU I...

European IPO volumes and deal values have slu...

Structural barriers—including fragmented regu...

Current reforms such as the EU Listing Act, a...

U.S. Dollar Holds Global Reserve Lead Amid Slow Shift toward Alternatives

Global Markets Financial Services

The U.S. dollar remains the dominant global r...

Gold’s rising share of reserve asset value re...

Dollar dominance is underpinned by deep marke...

Near-term shifts point to slow, incremental d...

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