Mergers and Acquisitions

The bank received approval to buy the remaining stake in its wealth management business Smith Barney from Citigroup.

In Maria Bartiromo’s exclusive interview with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon he describes capital spending as “disappointing”.

Investment banking titan Joseph Perella is under siege from disgruntled employees. 

Visa is in preliminary talks to buy former subsidiary Visa Europe Ltd, in a deal that could be valued at up to $20 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Stifel Financial has a deal in place to buy Legg Mason’s investment advisory business, a unit that manages more than $9 billion in assets.

TIAA-CREF said it will buy Nuveen Investments for $6.25 billion, including debt, in a deal that will make a money manager with $800 billion in assets under management. 

H&R Block has sold its banking unit to BofI Federal Bank, enabling the tax preparer to free up resources for core operations.

General Electric is reportedly exploring a sale of its Nordic money bank business that could fetch as much as $2.75 billion.

Property and casualty insurer American Financial agreed to buy Liberty Mutual’s workers compensation business on Thursday for $250 million in cash.

AIG will sell its aircraft-leasing business to AerCap Holdings  in a $5.4 billion deal, marking the insurer's exit from its last non-core business.

Accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers struck a deal to buy corporate consulting firm Booz & Co. to bulk up its advisory business.

EBay said it would buy payment platform Braintree for about $800 million in cash to add to its PayPal business.

The U.S. drug maker's shares advanced only modestly as Roche denied having a need to raise cash. 

Wall Street may still be dominated by men, but a pair of female bankers played key roles in the mega Verizon Wireless deal.

The Big Board owner has reportedly tapped two leading investment banks to run a possible IPO of its Euronext unit.

Sony rallied on a report that it has hired investment bankers to review a hedge-fund plan to sell part of its entertainment unit.

Pfizer Inc and Allergan Plc are considering combining, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.

Celgene Corp. has reached a deal to buy fellow biopharmaceutical company Receptos Inc. for about $7.2 billion, enhancing its portfolio of immune-inflammatory disease treatments with the addition of Ozanimod.

The scientific and lab equipment maker will sell part of its business to GE Healthcare for about $1.06 billion.

Amgen said over the weekend it would  buy cancer drug maker Onyx Pharmaceuticals  for about $10.4 billion in one of the biggest-ever biotech deals.