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Pay and venue were the focus of a jury's early deliberations on Monday in the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of fraud over dealings in mortgage-backed securities early in the financial crisis.

JPMorgan Chase & Co is raising lending to small businesses by $4 billion this year and hiring more than 300 new bankers to cater to these businesses.

JPMorgan Chase & Co is lifting a salary freeze it put in place last year, according to an internal memo from human resources director John Donnelly.

The trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers went to a jury on Monday, the first high-profile Wall Street executives criminally charged with fraud over subprime mortgage-backed securities that fueled the market meltdown.

Bank of America Corp's CEO search could last until Thanksgiving, the New York Post reported on Friday.

Bank of America Corp's CEO search could last until Thanksgiving, the New York Post reported on Friday.

In closing arguments in the trial of the first high-profile Wall Streeters on fraud charges stemming from the financial crisis, a U.S. prosecutor said two hedge fund managers told black and white lies, but a defense lawyer attacked the government for misleading the jury.

The U.S. services sector grew modestly for a second month in a row in October and private sector employers cut jobs at the slowest pace in more than a year, adding to signs the economy is crawling back to health.

Eight major banks which were at the front of the line for government bailouts have already set aside $117.6 billion this year to pay employees, almost as much as they paid in all of 2008, a Reuters analysis has found.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday as the deal by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to buy railroad company Burlington Northern was offset by poor results from Swiss lender UBS and a shake-up at two big British banks.

Denbury Resources Inc has agreed to buy Encore Acquisition Co for $3.2 billion to create one of North America's largest oil production and exploration companies.

U.S. authorities seized nine failed banks on Friday, the most in a single day since the financial crisis began and the latest stark sign that substantial parts of the nation's banking industry are being crippled by bad loans.

JP Morgan Chase & Co raised concerns about Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and his associates as far back as 2001, the Financial Times reported, citing an internal company document seen by the newspaper.

JPMorgan Chase & Co , the second largest U.S. bank, is looking to add financial advisers, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told a conference in New York on Tuesday.

Troubled lender Amcore Financial Inc posted a seventh straight quarterly loss, hurt by higher provisions, and said it was significantly undercapitalized, sending its shares down 42 percent.

Former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin won a round during his trial in New York on fraud charges on Monday when a judge ruled the jury cannot see a personal email in which he wrote about his fears of a blow up risk for investors.

Former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin won a round during his trial in New York on fraud charges on Monday when a judge ruled the jury cannot see a personal email in which he wrote about his fears of a blow up risk for investors.

JPMorgan Cazenove's joint venture owners are keen to decide whether J.P. Morgan should buy out its UK investment banking partner before bonuses are set for staff around the turn of the year, industry sources said.

The U.S. futures regulator urged Congress to require thousands of non-major financial firms and funds to use clearinghouses to reduce the risk of another market collapse as part of its reform of the $450 trillion swaps market.

A U.S. lawmaker said on Friday he issued a subpoena to Countrywide Financial, now part of Bank of America Corp , as part of a probe into whether the lender gave favored terms to lawmakers and other VIPs.

Washington Mutual Inc told a federal judge on Thursday that JPMorgan should be forced to return more than $4 billion to the bankrupt holding company, whose bank was seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan.

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Minzhong, a leading Chinese food processing company backed by Singapore's GIC and buyout fund Olympus Capital, has hired JPMorgan to help it go public, sources said on Monday.

Bank of America Corp posted a $1 billion quarterly loss on Friday as consumer credit woes eclipsed investment banking earnings, underlining why the bank remains on a government respirator.

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BofA's Big Loss; GE's Woes; Banks Battle for Fixed Income Supremacy

Goldman Sachs Group (GS), the former investment bank known for aggressive risk taking, is facing a frontal assault on its traditional dominance of fixed income trading from an unlikely source: commercial bank JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM).

Goldman Sachs Group Inc's vaunted trading operations helped the dominant Wall Street firm quadruple its earnings, but investment banking results were lackluster and its shares fell.

U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday after Goldman Sachs Group and Citigroup Inc's quarterly results fell short of some investors' expectations, a day after major indexes rallied to fresh highs for 2009.