Sentence examples for underwriting share from inspiring English sources

KKR, a private-equity firm, is expanding its capital-markets unit and has begun underwriting share offerings, starting with firms in its own portfolio.

Much investment-banking business, such as foreign exchange or bonds, is now commoditised; and the juicy business of mergers and acquisitions or underwriting share issues is increasingly going to a mere handful of firms.

Fears of renewed recession in the rich world and anxiety about the euro zone have dampened stockmarkets and made the lucrative fees from underwriting share and debt issues, or advising on big mergers, seem a distant prospect.Investment banks have struggled to make money so staff will be cut.

According to Thomson Financial, Nikko Salomon Smith Barney had the biggest underwriting share of public offerings last year, winning more than a third of all underwriting deals by value.Some foreigners have approached the retail market indirectly, by selling products through traditional local brokers, as well as through new online brokers.

If Mr Fastow's winnings are cited in court, he needs only to compare his fees with those of investment bankers arranging mergers and acquisitions, underwriting shares, and putting together fancy financial deals.Compared with other rainmakers of the late 1990s, Mr Fastow might not look so greedy.

Revenues in investment banking were down 9% while its business that underwrites share offerings was down 14%.

And the Fed should be careful not to give the impression that it will underwrite share prices by cutting interest rates.

Foreign-exchange controls were largely dismantled.However, banks are still forbidden to underwrite shares; securities firms cannot offer banking services.

At the same time, they may extend loans, underwrite shares, execute stockmarket trades for their customers, sell insurance, arrange corporate mergers, and trade all sorts of commodities and financial instruments for their own account.

But in the RiskMetrics study, in more than one-fourth of the cases when stocks carried an outlandish price target from a brokerage firm, that broker underwrote shares or provided other investment banking services for the company.

Nomura has had the top underwriting market share in Japan for 13 of the last 14 years, averaging over a 40 percent share in the last five years, according to Mr. Smith at CLSA.