Steve Slater

Associate editor at IFR, part of LSEG, covering banking and capital markets. Long suffering West Ham fan.

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

IFR's Bank of the Year for 2021 is Goldman Sachs. Has it changed the Hall of Fame rankings?

Here's a bar chart race, spanning 42 years of awards: https://t.co/CUIi7ZKOrG

And here are details on the latest winners: https://t.co/e5DDrs5GAn

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

Very amused to see this on my first trip back to dubai since 1993. ITP gave me my first journalism job in 1992 in little old Hitchin with trips to Mideast (good to see Arabian Computer News get a nod on website).

Nice to see Hitchin makes it big with @itpmediagroup

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@virginmedia surpassed themselves today. No Internet all day. I particularly liked the jolly message at 1pm saying it was fixed.

Er no it wasnt. And still isnt 5hrs later. File that message under the refund avoidance category?

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@MJGold @mjgold Curious how accurate theae splits can be? How precisely do they know they’ve run 400m and not 399.5m?

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@MJGold 👍 but…
Clutch performer: Nafi Thiam
MVP of meet: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone

And def not Sha’carri Richardson!

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

Can we please stop showing footage of sports pundits/hosts jumping around excited when someone wins.
Ok when it started. Now everyone knows they are being filmed. And only Roy Keane can resist the antics.
Thanks

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@BBCSport His Best position would have been on bench. Would be amazed if kane starts for bayern before october…

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@now_arsenaI And not one successful cross. Great for a winger!

[Gareth Gore @gareth_gore]

Look what the nice people at ⁦@simonschuster⁩ sent me…

Advance copies of the US edition!

The official countdown to the release of OPUS is now on…

Get your pre-orders in here: https://t.co/YIyXHBJ9aX

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@OliverKay Worrying post-game interviews show they don’t know how bad they’ve been. Suffocated by caution

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

Has a team ever won their group in WC or Euros after playing 270mins of such god awful dull football?

I think there was a #GroupOfSleep in mexico 1986, but i reckon we’ve trumped that! @england

[Chris Whittall @Chris_Whittall]

SCOOP: UK authorities scrutinise how banks made billions in tax-free pounds from complex inflation trades

Barclays, Goldman and JPM among those to boost their income significantly - and cut their effective UK tax rate - through holdings of UK linkers 👇

https://t.co/nzflA46B0N

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

I don’t know where to start with this . But it’s surely illegal and must be investigated and prosecuted . What sort of monster rams a calf ? Twice ?

[Megan McCubbin @MeganMcCubbin]

This is one of the most heartbreaking and disgusting things I’ve seen…. I hope whoever is behind the wheel of this police car is confronted by the repercussions for their horrific actions. That poor poor animal… 💔😖 @metpoliceuk @SurreyPolice @RSPCA_official

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@SurreyPolice Disgraceful. You should be ashamed

[Chris Whittall @Chris_Whittall]

Venkat with some honest comments on Barclays' underwhelming Q1 results in fixed income trading

https://t.co/7nOnGK7I0N

via @IFRsteves

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

Decent Q1 for big 5 US investment banks, esp Goldman and BofA
FICC trading -3% on avg, only Goldman bucks the drop with +10%
Equities trading +6% on avg, led by BofA and Goldman
IBD bounces back 27% from weak 2023

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

And people wonder why we want Moyes gone? 🤣

3-1 up and comfortable, and once again he takes off our lone forward to defend with 30mins left. IT DOESN’T WORK DAVID

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

@sjhmorris @FT Wow, congrats stephen, sounds like fun 👍

[Steve Slater @IFRsteves]

Banks and financial firms pledge another £1m+ to Save the Children at @ifrtweets Awards for 2023..

Well played. Led by bank of year #MorganStanley 👏🏻

[Chris Whittall @Chris_Whittall]

READ: Prime brokerage - the multibillion $ cash cow redefining banks' trading divisions

Prime accounted for over half equities revenues in 2023

Deepdive on how financing + providing hedge funds market access became a linchpin in banks' markets units

https://t.co/CcmqyXH8ld