Jefferies & Company

25 results about this entity

Period: 11 Oct 2004 - 07 Dec 2023

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Dark clouds gather over European payments firms

The pain faced by fintechs in the payments space is expected to continue throughout 2024, according to an analysis by Jefferies.

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Jefferies signs five-year contract extension with Tier1

Tier1 Financial Solutions announced today that Jefferies Financial Group has signed an expanded five-year renewal contract with Tier1 Financial Solutions (“Tier1”), a leading client relationship management (“CRM”) technology provider for capital markets and banking.

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Viva Wallet seeks €500 million fundraising – Reuters

Greek payments firm Viva Wallet has hired investment bank Jeffries to advise on the €500 million fundraising just weeks after officially acquiring Praxia Bank’s banking license.

Integral and Jefferies launch OTC FX venue

Integral, a leading financial technology company, and Jefferies, a global investment banking firm, today announced the launch of TrueFX, a fully integrated service designed for buyside firms to conveniently connect and trade with the FX market at a fraction of today’s trading costs.

Quantifi picked to support Jefferies' structured credit business

Quantifi, a provider of risk, analytics and trading solutions today announced that it has been selected by Jefferies Group LLC to support its growing structured credit business.

Jefferies Asia CEO Michael Alexander to lead Block.One VC unit

Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain software protocol and seller of the EOS Token, a top-five cryptocurrency by market cap at approximately US$8 billion, announced that former Jefferies Asia CEO Mike Alexander has joined as CEO of its US$1 billion EOS VC venture capital arm, effective today.

Goldman Sachs leads $38m Visible Alpha funding round

Investment research technology firm Visible Alpha has expanded its roster of big Wall Street name backers and set its sights on MiFID-led European growth after closing a $38 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs.

Jefferies goes live with Percentile’s RiskMine Cube

Percentile, leading innovator in risk management and RegTech, today announced that Jefferies, the global investment bank, has gone live with Percentile’s RiskMine Cube software.

Jefferies extends use of AxiomSL’s reporting platform for MiFID II transaction reporting

AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that Jefferies has selected its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) transaction reporting solution.

Bank-backed Visible Alpha unveils investment research platform

Visible Alpha, an investment research technology firm founded by some of the world’s leading investment banks – Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley and UBS – today announced the commercial availability of its new investment research platform with content contributed by more than twenty research firms.

Neptune welcomes Nomura and Jefferies to network

Neptune Networks Ltd. "Neptune", the open-standard network for bond real-time AXE indications, today announced the addition of Nomura and Jefferies to its network.

Investment banks launch Visible Alpha

Five of the world’s leading investment banks – BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley and UBS – have announced the formation of a new company, Visible Alpha LLC, to create a common language and platform for analysts’ financial models and forecasts.

Wall Street firms take on Bloomberg with new messaging platform

A group of Wall Street firms, led by Goldman Sachs, has acquired instant messaging outfit Perzo and set up a new company to help them break free of their reliance on Bloomberg.

Citi boss Corbat meets Ice Bucket Challenge but Icahn ducks out

Citi CEO Mike Corbat has become the latest Wall Street heavyweight to prove that bankers do have hearts, and marketing savvy, by taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

UBS algo trading code theft case dropped

UBS has lost its bid to get a permanent injunction against three former quant traders accused of stealing proprietary algorithmic trading software with the intent of using it at their new employer, Jefferies.

City analyst talks up Misys break-up

Shares in Misys have ticked up after City analysts talked up the possibility of a break-up and piecemeal sell-off of the banking-to-healthcare group.

UBS files code theft lawsuit

In an incident with striking parallels to the recent Goldman Sachs code theft case, it now emerges that UBS in March filed a lawsuit against three former quant traders alleging that they stole proprietary algorithmic trading software with the intent of using it at their new employer, Jefferies.

Wall Street M&A advisors charged over insider trading

Mergers and acquisitions professionals from UBS and Blackstone Advisory Service have been charged by US authorities with feeding confidential information to an insider trading ring that generated over $11.6 million.

Black Thursday for financial markets as job losses mount

Financial markets have been rocked by a further series of massive job reductions at top firms, including Credit Suisse, Nomura, Commerzbank/Dresdner Kleinwort, State Street, and Jefferies.

Jefferies selects Ullink for MiFID best execution

Investment bank Jefferies is to use Ullink's UL Smart software to meet the best execution requirements of the EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).