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In February, he began calling financial-services executives with an unusual request: "Help us get this right," according to people familiar with the phone calls.

Gensler's Struggles Mark Regulatory Challenges Deborah Solomon 2011

Carlyle has invested more than $2 billion in Asian financial-services businesses, including HDFC Ltd. in India, Korea's KorAm Bank and Taiwan's Ta Chong Bank Ltd. It made the investments at times of stress in the financial industry and those investments have since rebounded in value.

Carlyle Group Buys Stake in India Infoline Brokerage Alison Tudor 2011

Overcoming misconceptions about Israeli security among key players in the energy and financial-services sectors represents an important task quite distinct from marketing Israel's technology story.

Tapping Israel's Natural Gas David Wurmser 2011

ABN Amro and Fortis Bank Nederland were nationalized in 2008 as a part of a rescue program for former Benelux financial-services giant Fortis.

ABN Amro's Net Soars Maarten van Tartwijk 2011

He predicted that large financial-services firms, which had cut back on information-technology services during the 2009 recession, would quickly ramp up spending and use Indian outsourcers—rather than more-costly domestic providers—as they returned to growth mode.

Internet & Computer Services 2011

Working his way back into the financial-services industry, Mr. Rey-Marino landed at Raymond James near the end of 2007 and was asked to follow banks in Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Chile.

Banks 2011

David Lidington, the U.K.'s minister for Europe, said in an interview that London-based financial-services firms need to show they benefit the whole of Europe and not just the U.K. The U.K.'s financial regulators are seen within Britain as essentially arms of a Brussels-based regulatory system.

Minister Pushes More U.K. Sway Alistair MacDonald 2011

Mr. Ludwig, 65 years old, is the founder and chief executive of Promontory Financial Group, a financial-services consulting firm based in Washington, where he resides.

Helping Students Put Their Education to Work Melanie Grayce West 2011

Mr. Lidington said there are about 30 proposed European Union financial-services regulations that the U.K. must engage with from the start rather than complain about once they have been adopted.

Minister Pushes More U.K. Sway Alistair MacDonald 2011

Including investment-grade and speculative-grade, or junk, bonds—but excluding those of banks and other financial-services companies—corporate borrowers issued $29.7 billion of unsecured debt this week, according to data provider Dealogic.

A Week for the Record Books in Corporate Debt Anusha Shrivastava 2011