(Bloomberg) — Buyout firms are poised to spend $9 billion in Brazil on everything from infrastructure to oil exploration as the economy recovers from a recession, the nation’s private equity and venture capital association said. Grupo Santander Brasil and San Francisco-based Paul Capital Partners said they may purchase stakes in companies that will benefit from the country hosting the World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016.
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Brazil Buyout Firms Have $9 Billion in ‘Dry Powder’
March 1st, 2010 
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Comments OffSecret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs
February 24th, 2010 Before You Invest
(Bloomberg) — When a congressional panel convened a hearing on the government rescue of American International Group Inc.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: American International Group, American International Group Inc, Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns Cos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Congressional Panel, Credit Default Swaps, Darrell Issa, Federal Reserve Bank, Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, International Group Inc, Mortgage Securities, New York Fed, Sachs Group Inc, Specific Securities Comments OffEx-Goldman Programmer Aleynikov Pleads Not Guilty
February 18th, 2010 Before You Invest
(Bloomberg) — Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he stole trading software from the bank. Aleynikov, 40, entered his plea today before U.S.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Citadel Investment Group, Computer Programmer, Court Appearance, Deleting History, District Judge, Employment Assistant, Federal Charges, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Group Llc, Indictment, Laptop Computer, Misha, Preet Bharara, Sachs Group Inc, Shroff, Storage Device, Trading Platform, Trading Software Comments OffAleynikov, Ex-Goldman Programmer Indicted Over Software Theft
February 12th, 2010 Before You Invest
(Bloomberg) — Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov was indicted on federal charges that he stole sophisticated trading software from the bank. The indictment, unsealed today in Manhattan federal court, is a setback for Aleynikov, whose court-appointed lawyer had been urging prosecutors to dismiss the charges.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Automated Trading, Citadel Investment Group, Computer Platform, Computer Programmer, Court Appearance, Court Hearing, Criminal Complaint, False Impression, Federal Charges, Foreign Commerce, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Megabits, Proprietary Code, Russian Citizenship, Sachs Group Inc, Shroff, Software Code, Software Theft Comments OffMerrill’s Ex-CEO Will Lead CIT
February 8th, 2010 Before You Invest (Bloomberg) — John Thain, the ousted chief of Merrill Lynch & Co., was named to lead CIT Group Inc., the commercial lender that emerged from bankruptcy in December, after a nearly four-month search for a replacement.
Thain, 54, becomes chairman and chief executive officer immediately, New York-based CIT said today in a statement.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Aircraft Financing, Bank Of America, Bank Of America Corp, Cit Group, Cit Group Inc, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Interim Ceo, Jeffrey Peek, Kenneth D Lewis, Merrill Lynch, New York Stock, New York Stock Exchange, Nyse Euronext, Peter Tobin, Railcar Leasing, Sachs Group Inc, Wall Street History, York Stock Exchange Comments OffGoldman Sachs defends market practices in report to SEC
October 27th, 2009 Before You Invest In a lengthy report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Goldman Sachs Group defended high-frequency trading, dark pools, short-selling and other market strategies. “The investing community (especially retail) has benefited from the evolving market structure and industry competition,” Goldman said in the report. Lawmakers have criticized the practices and are looking into ways to increase their transparency.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Amp, Apps, Dark Pools, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, High Frequency, Industry Competition, Lawmakers, Lengthy Report, Market Investing, Market Practices, Market Strategies, Market Structure, Pid, Sec, Securities And Exchange, Securities And Exchange Commission, Sid, Transparency No Comments »Dark Pool Trade Limit Said to Be Cut 95% in SEC Plan
October 20th, 2009 Before You Invest The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will propose toughening its limits on the amount of anonymous trading carried out on stock platforms called dark pools, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.
The commission will propose lowering the amount of daily volume in a company’s shares that can be executed in private on any of the networks to 0.25 percent from 5 percent at a hearing tomorrow in Washington, said the people, who declined to be identified because the discussions weren’t public.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: 3u, Apps, Charles Schumer, Daily Volume, Dark Pool, Dark Pools, Deliberations, Democratic Senators, Getco Llc, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Kaufman, Nester, Platforms, Sachs Group Inc, Scrutiny, Securities And Exchange, Securities And Exchange Commission, Spokesman No Comments »Citadel rivals called ‘pirate ship of illegal activity’
October 10th, 2009 Before You Invest
(Reuters) — Lawyers for Citadel Investment Group urged a judge on Friday to prohibit Teza Technologies and its two founders from doing business for at least nine months, calling the high-frequency trading start-up a “veritable pirate ship of illegal activity.” During final arguments in the preliminary injunction portion of Citadel’s civil lawsuit against Teza, lawyers for the giant hedge fund firm said the defendants, former Citadel executives Mikhail Malyshev and Jace Kohlmeier, had violated their promise not to compete against Citadel or solicit its employees when they “surreptitiously” set up the new company less than six weeks after leaving Citadel. Friday’s arguments drew Kenneth Griffin, Citadel’s founder and head, into the packed courtroom, where company lawyers claimed the proceedings were being monitored by the “entire financial community” to see whether non-compete agreements the two men allegedly violated still had any meaning. The case has also garnered attention because of the small window it has opened on the secretive, lucrative and fast-growing world of high-frequency trading. Citadel’s lawyers claim that Teza is a competitive enterprise that has been recruiting talent, building databases of historical and real-time market, constructing a super-fast trading engine and developing trading signals and strategies in an effort to be able to engage in high-frequency, low-latency trading. Such trading, theoretically, would allow it to predict the price of a financial instrument one second in the future and profit from that. Teza made headlines this summer when one of its hires, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Citadel Investment Group, Civil Lawsuit, Company Lawyers, Competitive Enterprise, Computer Programmer, Financial Instrument, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Hedge Fund, High Frequency, Illegal Activity, Jace, Kenneth Griffin, Kohlmeier, Non Compete Clauses, Pirate Ship, Preliminary Injunction, Sachs Group Inc, Time Market No Comments »Citadel rivals called ‘pirate ship of illegal activity’
October 10th, 2009 Before You Invest
(Reuters) — Lawyers for Citadel Investment Group urged a judge on Friday to prohibit Teza Technologies and its two founders from doing business for at least nine months, calling the high-frequency trading start-up a “veritable pirate ship of illegal activity.” During final arguments in the preliminary injunction portion of Citadel’s civil lawsuit against Teza, lawyers for the giant hedge fund firm said the defendants, former Citadel executives Mikhail Malyshev and Jace Kohlmeier, had violated their promise not to compete against Citadel or solicit its employees when they “surreptitiously” set up the new company less than six weeks after leaving Citadel. Friday’s arguments drew Kenneth Griffin, Citadel’s founder and head, into the packed courtroom, where company lawyers claimed the proceedings were being monitored by the “entire financial community” to see whether non-compete agreements the two men allegedly violated still had any meaning. The case has also garnered attention because of the small window it has opened on the secretive, lucrative and fast-growing world of high-frequency trading. Citadel’s lawyers claim that Teza is a competitive enterprise that has been recruiting talent, building databases of historical and real-time market, constructing a super-fast trading engine and developing trading signals and strategies in an effort to be able to engage in high-frequency, low-latency trading. Such trading, theoretically, would allow it to predict the price of a financial instrument one second in the future and profit from that. Teza made headlines this summer when one of its hires, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Citadel Investment Group, Civil Lawsuit, Company Lawyers, Competitive Enterprise, Computer Programmer, Financial Instrument, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Hedge Fund, High Frequency, Illegal Activity, Jace, Kenneth Griffin, Kohlmeier, Non Compete Clauses, Pirate Ship, Preliminary Injunction, Sachs Group Inc, Time Market No Comments »NYSE to add partners to bolster options-trading business
September 10th, 2009 Before You Invest NYSE Euronext plans to sell stakes in its NYSE Amex division to major Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs Group, Bank of America and Citigroup. The goal is to give major options traders an incentive to trade on Amex, which has seen its market share plummet during the past 10 years. Under the plan, NYSE Euronext would remain the largest shareholder in Amex.
