James Franey

New York

Wall Street Reporter at New York Post

Wall Street reporter, New York Post. Email: [email protected] 🇬🇧🇧🇪🗽. “Moderately hostile” - @jeremycorbyn

Articles

Barron Trump may have made millions from family’s lucrative crypto firm: report

1 week ago | news.com.au | James Franey

Barron Trump, the youngest son of the 47th President, may have raked in millions of dollars from the sale of crypto tokens linked to the family’s lucrative venture into digital tokens, according to a report.
Barron Trump made millions from family's lucrative crypto firm: report

1 week ago | nypost.com | James Franey

Barron Trump, the youngest son of the 47th President, may have raked in millions of dollars from the sale of crypto tokens linked to the family’s lucrative venture into digital tokens, according to a report.
JPMorgan's Europe boss set to quit London for NYC

1 week ago | nypost.com | James Franey

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JPMorgan's Matthew Demko quits Jamie Dimon-led bank

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

“Hurricane Jamie” lost one of his rainmakers. JPMorgan managing director Matthew Demko quit the Jamie Dimon-led bank to join Ryan Specialty Group, an insurance broker and underwriter founded by billionaire Patrick G. Ryan, The Post has learned. The investment banker’s last day of employment with the US financial giant was Monday, according to his broker profile posted on the website of US regulator FINRA, but it is yet to updated with his new job.
Goldman Sachs banker Todd Eagle quits real estate team

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

Top Goldman Sachs real estate banker Todd Eagle has quit the David Solomon-led firm, The Post has learned. Insiders told The Post his name has been scrubbed from the bank’s internal staff directory and that he is set to join smaller Wall Street rival Jefferies, where he is expected to become the US head of real estate banking. He will report to Michael Bluhm, who is the global head of real estate, gaming & lodging at the Rich Handler-run bank, sources said.
New York City cabbie lender fined $4M over 'fake news'

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

A New York financier and his publicly traded firm that bankrolled loans to taxi drivers were fined $4 million for planting fake news articles online to boost the company’s stock price. Medallion Financial Corp. — which got hit a decade ago as ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft began to tank the value of taxi medallions — will have to pay $3 million as part of a settlement after a ruling by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US Southern District of New York.
China chows on US fast food at London trade talks

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

China’s trade negotiators surrendered at the end of the second day of US trade talks in London — by feasting on American fast food, The Post has learned. The famished Chinese delegation ordered a delivery of McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC after the day-long negotiations at just after 7:30 p.m. local time, sources said. Team Trump — featuring Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer — also turned to a fast-food option.
JPMorgan threatens to fire job-hopping junior bankers

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

Jamie Dimon-led JPMorgan is threatening to fire junior bankers who accept a job offer within the first 18 months of joining the firm as the battle for Wall Street’s top talent heats up. A leaked letter to newly recruited JPMorgan analysts, posted on the Instagram account Litquidity, warns the junior bankers that if they already have a lucrative gig lined up elsewhere, they will be booted out of the bank.
Hedge fund boss Ken Griffin ramps up war of words with Trump

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

Hedge fund titan Ken Griffin ramped up his war of words with the Trump White House on Wednesday, blasting the president’s so-called ‘Big, Beautiful’ tax bill for adding to Uncle Sam’s eye-popping $36 trillion debt pile. The 56-year-old CEO of Citadel, who is worth $42 billion according to Forbes, told the business magazine’s annual Iconoclast summit in New York City that if the bill passed, the country would “unquestionably add several trillion dollars” to the US debt.
Rage against the machines: Hedge fund titan Cliff Asness 'surrenders' to AI

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | James Franey

Hot-tempered hedge fund titan Cliff Asness, who is worth a cool $2 billion according to Forbes, has admitted his AQR Capital Management has “surrendered to the machines” and fully embraced AI to make trading decisions. The 58-year-old New York-born money man, who also has admitted smashing his own computer screens in anger in the past, told the Financial Times his Connecticut-based firm is now using machine-based algorithms powered by artificial intelligence to make its bets.