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Goldman private equity arm, Advent to buy TransUnion

The deal values the credit reporting firm, owned by Madison Dearborn Partners and Chicago's Pritzker family, at more than $3bn

Trade of the Week: Buying cheap protection

Buying options to protect against a sharp drop in shares that have recently staged an aggressive rally or whose price may continue to climb looks good value

US interdealer broker reports restructuring costs of $20m as it slips to $3.2m loss in 2011

Oman stock exchange launches new trading system

The Oman stock exchange has joined forces with NYSE Technologies to launch an updated e-trading system, designed to increase liquidity and speed up transactions

Debt bankers are divided on whether UBS’s successful issue of the first Basel III-compliant Tier 2 bond will be a useful template for issuance of hybrid bank capital outside Switzerland

SocGen 'not competing with the bulge brackets'

Didier Valet, the new head of Societe Generale’s investment banking arm, says he wants a fully fledged investment bank 'for our core clients in Europe"

Awol Kazakh banker handed 22-month sentence

Judge issues arrest warrant for Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former head of Kazakh bank BTA accused of embezzling $5bn, who was sentenced to jail for contempt of court

Pyramis, the institutional arm of Fidelity Asset Management, has named Mike Jones, who previously led Columbia Management’s US asset management business, as its new chief executive

Why hedge fund managers need fewer friends

A tendency to rely too much on a small group of trusted contacts may put fund managers at risk of engaging in crowded trades, says new research

Independent firm emerged as the sole adviser on the largest M&A deal of the week as it advised France Telecom in north Africa

US mid-market private equity firm will become the largest shareholder in 360 Treasury Systems, Europe's largest independent currency and fixed income trading platform

Deutsche agrees record longevity swap deal

The €12bn deal with Dutch insurer Aegon comes amid growing interest from capital market investors in pensions swaps

EU fails to mollify with second pensions paper

The European Union made its second major announcement on pensions reform in as many days yesterday afternoon, but the continued insistence on a ‘level playing field’ between insurers and pension funds overshadows its other proposals

French banks have showed resilience in the face of the eurozone crisis

A bank, said by people familiar with the matter to be UBS, is aiding a Canadian court in a Libor probe

Stephen Roach retires from Morgan Stanley

The influential former chief economist and long time bull on the Chinese growth story is retiring from the bank he joined in 1982

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Goldman private equity arm, Advent to buy TransUnion

Trade of the Week: Buying cheap protection

GFI reports $20m job cut charge

Oman stock exchange launches new trading system

Jury still out on hybrid bond template

SocGen 'not competing with the bulge brackets'

Awol Kazakh banker handed 22-month sentence

Pyramis hires new chief executive

Why hedge fund managers need fewer friends

Investment bank of the week: Lazard

Summit Partners buys FX platform stake

Deutsche agrees record longevity swap deal

EU fails to mollify with second pensions paper

Vive la French bank résistance

Bank says traders manipulated key rate

Stephen Roach retires from Morgan Stanley