By Justin Slaughter A well paid tech workforce streaming in from neighboring Silicon Valley is the latest Gold Rush to hit the city of San Francisco. With companies like Facebook, Google and Apple sponsoring private luxury coach buses that shuttle their employees down Highway 101 to work and back, thousands of tech workers are shunning […]
Last week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) applied the paddles to the flat-lining European CMBS market. The investment bank launched a deal which has the potential to get the blood pumping around Europe’s commercial mortgage securitisation market once again. There haven’t been many signs of life since last September, when volatility in the capital […]
We are a society of extremes: First, last. Best, worst. Largest, smallest. In finance — and financial journalism — it’s easy to cling to them. Who isn’t a sap for a story about the tallest building or the largest deal. But numbers that may seem like the best, or the worst, don’t always tell the […]