Jefferies Announces Sales to Focus on Investment Bank
Firm is building investment banking and capital markets and reducing its merchant banking portfolio.
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Firm is building investment banking and capital markets and reducing its merchant banking portfolio.
Big banks have been pushed workers to return, but have reversed course in light of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Jefferies Financial Group has had more than 40 new COVID-19 cases in December 2021
The broker-dealer posted stellar investment banking and markets numbers for 2020 – and reckons this is just the start. For Jefferies, the last big broker-dealer standing after the global financial crisis a decade ago that saw Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs transform themselves into banks, the coronavirus crisis has hit close to home. In March, the firm lost chief financial officer Peg Broadbent to the virus, a tragedy that shocked its staff and those that used to work there. Financially, however, the picture is far from gloomy. The biggest Wall Street banks are set to begin reporting 2020...