Lehman Brothers Holdings News

Everyone knows that senior execs at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were paid largely in stock, and that they lost most of their wealth when the companies collapsed, right? Turns out, not so much: "Three professors at Harvard are disputing that logic in a new study, saying it is an urban myth that executives at Bear and Lehman were wiped out along ...

Lehman Brothers International , where more than $35 billion of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank's collapse last September, could return about $11 billion to fund managers by March if enough firms approve a new plan.

The most recent major SEC appointment is worrying. In general, Obama's appointments in finance have been uninspiring.

DEVIN LEONARD ESTERO, Fla. Banks often hire Norman Radow to handle the myriad unpleasantries of the real estate mess.

Over the years, I have warned a seemingly countless number of undergraduates that Fed's hold on monetary independence was tenuous at best.

In a way, it all began on the 16th of March, 2008, when Bear Stearns, "the smallest but scrappiest of Wall Street's Big Five", fainted in the arms of JP Morgan with the US Treasury acting as matchmaker and priest.

The safe-haven dollar kept rising Friday and Treasury yields hovered around their lows for the year as worries about the economy in 2010 continued to weigh on traders' taste for risky bets.

Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, testifies at a joint Economic Committee hearing on financial regulatory overhaul in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov.

The number of claims against collapsed Lehman Brothers could top $1 trillion , according to the man running the investment bank's liquidation.

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack is becoming a YouTube sensation. A 26-minute video of a talk he gave on "Leadership in Crisis" at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last month has garnered more than 18,600 page views and 4.5 stars.

KDB Financial Group Inc. Chairman Min Euoo Sung said his failed attempt to buy Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

This is a guest post written by Wall St. Cheat Sheet Editor-in-Chief Damien Hoffman .

Is high-frequency trading driving a wholesale transformation of the job market on Wall Street? It certainly seems that way, given recent comments by industry executives who point to the insatiable demand for programmers who can build ultralow-latency automated trading platforms.

Court official, not SEC-appointed lawyer, should distribute funds, judge says. When an investment scheme goes sour, the Securities and Exchange Commission often appoints a private attorney with a background in bankruptcy law to divvy up the remaining assets.

I emphasized that Berkshire should be a core, long-term holding in investors' portfolios and not a stock to trade in and out off.

Bear Stearns shocked us. Lehman Brothers crushed us. AIG ticks us off. But CIT? Eh.

Barclays, it turns out, cut itself a remarkably good deal. A recent court filing - this one free of redactions - even accuses Barclays of making off with $5 billion without anyone noticing, an amount that Lehman's creditors seem to think should be treated as the largest theft in banking history.

A local woman says her new Christmas wrapping paper is full of swastikas. Casey Lehman bought a roll of wrapping paper at the Altamonte Mall.

Christiea s International had its smallest evening Impressionist and modern-art auction in New York since May 2004 as buyers snubbed Picasso and Matisse in favor of conservative 19th-century landscapes and still-lifes. Last nighta s sale totaled $65.7 million, below the $68.7 million-to-$97.2 million presale estimate.

The U.S. Senate's top banking legislator proposed ambitious financial regulation reforms on Tuesday, leaping beyond earlier proposals to tighten bank regulation, protect consumers and police systemic risk.