Word: banks
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Foul play is confirmed, but the identity of the players may make for the great murder mystery of international finance. Edmond Safra, owner of the Republic National Bank of New York and one of the world's richest men, was murdered Friday in Monte Carlo after two knife-wielding hooded men broke into his penthouse apartment and set a fire after the banker locked himself in a bathroom. Safra and a nanny died in the fire, while his bodyguard was badly injured. The killers have not been apprehended...
...attack came as Safra was moving to complete the sale of Republic National to the London-based HSBC banking group for $10.3 billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic...
...recent Ivy League grads, what could be more natural than pouring their lives into their work? The investment bank rush shows no sign of slowing down--Broadview plans to hire more analysts than ever this year. But is the grind worth the money? All the analysts say their jobs are exciting and worthwhile, though "exciting" might be a stretch. The grueling hours and often repetitive work would discourage all but the most enthusiastic economics concentrator, although for $150,000, a two-year commitment might...
...Broadview is a leading global investment bank focused on the information technology, communications and media industries worldwide. The firm assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and private financings. It is also a private equity investor in these industries in the U.S. and Europe. Over the last 25 years, Broadview has grown to become the world's largest mergers and acquisitions investment bank of its kind, operating across the United States, Europe and Asia...
...this was weird. Then I read on. The naked slasher had sidekicks, two clothed men with sticks. What's more, the Guardian in London said the man was stopped by an off-duty cop-who used a piece of organ pipe to fight him off. The Scotsman says a bank clerk also fought with a pole-mounted crucifix...