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☆ 2 Legendary Detectives Take Their Final Cases
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It’s fall 1945, just after the end of World War II. Maisie has been asked to investigate the four orphaned teens who are squatting in the vacant, once-grand London mansion where she worked as a maid years ago. There, she inadvertently stumbles onto a decades-old mystery involving her first husband, who died while test-piloting an airplane. Maisie’s life will be forever changed by what she discovers: “Truth had at last come to the surface, had eased itself from the boundaries of the past as if it were a splinter rising up through skin.” Winspear gives Maisie the grace to face her pain, and wraps up the series with a deft touch.

Persons: Maisie, Winspear Locations: London

☆ In These Novels, a Lot of Crime and Only a Little Punishment
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When police officers kill 17-year-old Darius Evers, his older cousin, Nate, a political activist, wants real justice, not just “another Twitter hashtag, another candlelight vigil, another graffiti memorial.” He starts reading up on older killings — “lynchings, primarily” — and bands together with Darius’s brother, Joshua, and two close friends to begin kidnapping descendants of people who had long ago committed racially motivated hate crimes. The four of them don’t free their victims until they’ve agreed to deposit hundreds of dollars weekly into a secret account. “We like to think of it as a community-building fund,” Nate tells one. “But you can consider it reparations.”Their plan works, until the day it catastrophically doesn’t, putting them all in the frame of white supremacists and vengeful cops. As everything goes up in flames, Mayfield leans all the way into the discomfort zone.

Persons: Darius Evers, Nate, ”, Darius’s, Joshua, they’ve, Mayfield

☆ She Writes Storybook Endings. Of Course She Got the House.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Joanne Kaufman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The house, a traditional 1940s white stucco ranch, felt just right to Nina Weinman. It was in central Los Angeles, where she and her husband wanted to live, and it was in their price range. It had a dishwasher and a garbage disposal, central heat and air-conditioning — all things lacking in the couple’s rental apartment. The house was in disrepair, but it had a solid foundation and a roof of recent vintage, making it catnip to flippers. Ms. Weinman and her husband, Will Swift, a talent manager, had several contingencies and needed a loan.

Persons: Nina Weinman, ”, Weinman, Claus, Will Swift Organizations: Hallmark Channel Locations: Los Angeles

☆ ‘Murder’s Easy. We Did Something Much Worse.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

There’s a mordant theme to this month’s column; in three of the four books, dark humor undercuts despair and sardonic wit compensates for failure. Nowhere are these traits more on display than in DEATH OF THE RED RIDER (Pushkin Vertigo, 396 pp., paperback, $16.95), the second appearance of Yulia Yakovleva’s Stalin-era detective, Vasily Zaitsev, who goes about the ordinary business of solving murders while communities around him in 1930s Russia are purged and exiled en masse. This time Zaitsev is dispatched to Novocherkassk, a Soviet cavalry school in the south of Russia, to investigate the horrifying death of a famous rider and his horse midrace. Soon he’s given an assistant he didn’t ask for, Comrade Zoya Sokolova, who arrives with her own agenda. The events — aided by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp’s nimble translation — unfold slowly, but hold the reader’s attention.

Persons: Pushkin, Yulia Yakovleva’s Stalin, Vasily Zaitsev, he’s, didn’t, Zoya Sokolova, Ruth Ahmedzai Locations: Russia, masse, Novocherkassk, Soviet

☆ New Novels Brimming With Murder, Jazz and Sumptuous Sweets
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The journalist Valur Robertsson knows a fresh investigation will sell newspapers (and make his impatient editor ecstatic). He finds himself battling internal frustration and external impatience, all of which he expresses to his sister, Sunna, a slightly adrift graduate student. Despite secretive sources, legal threats and reminders that past and present are forever intertwined, Valur pushes hard to center Lara and her family in his stories. Sunna, too, will find herself drawn into the investigation, sometimes at her own peril. Jonasson and Jakobsdottir, beautifully translated by Victoria Cribb, demonstrate with understated brilliance how the truth rises to the surface, no matter how ugly it is or how powerful the players are.

Persons: Lara, Valur Robertsson, Valur, Victoria Cribb Locations: Reykjavik

☆ Once a Child Star, She Now Leads ‘Murder Tours’ in Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Then, not long after she learns that Tawney’s old fiancé Cal, a director, is making a film about her life and still-unsolved murder, Salma discovers the body of a young actress, Ankine Petrosyan, in the pool at the same house where her sister lived, “suspended in the water, twisting gently like a ballerina in a music box.” Ankine’s resemblance to Tawney is so uncanny that Salma believes there must be a link between their deaths. She sets her sights on Cal: She’s always believed he was guilty, and to prove it, she needs to finagle her way onto his movie set. Sutton indicts our culture for its fixation on beautiful young women who died at the hands of others. Salma grimly notes how eager her customers are to “fork over $75 to let tragedy crinkle the edges of their cookie cutter … lives, sprinkling Dead Girls over their Instagram feeds like a game of brunch, brunch murder.”

Persons: Salma, Ankine Petrosyan, “, She’s, Sutton, Salma grimly, ” Organizations: Cal

☆ Poker winner Daniel Weinman on the poker boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailPoker winner Daniel Weinman on the poker boomDaniel Weinman, Poker winner, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss winning $12.1 million from the World Series of Poker.

Persons: Daniel Weinman Organizations: Poker

☆ Daniel Weinman wins record-breaking $12.1M prize in World Series of Poker
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. “I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament,” Weinman told reporters after his victory. I mean, [there’s] so much luck in a poker tournament. “Today will hold a special place in the history of live tournament poker,” World Series of Poker Senior Vice President and Executive Director Ty Stewart said in a press release after Weinman’s victory.

Persons: CNN — Daniel Weinman, Weinman, ” Weinman, “ I’ve, Ty Stewart, “ Organizations: CNN, Poker, “ Locations: Atlanta

☆ SoftBank's View avoids SEC fine, but is still running low on cash. How it went from investor darling to SPAC disaster.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SoftBank-funded View Inc. has been dogged by regulatory troubles for more than a year and a half. The agency declined to fine View as the company self-reported the liability understatement, cooperated with the investigation, and "promptly undertook remedial measures." The SEC order did find that View violated several securities laws pertaining to negligence-based antifraud, internal accounting controls, and other matters. The firm's controversial CEO, Rao Mulpuri, has managed to raise cash for View multiple times when the company ran perilously low on cash, including from the now-bankrupt financier Greensill Capital. This is the second time View has been threatened with delisting since going public via SPAC in March 2021.

Persons: Vidul Prakash, Prakash, Rao Mulpuri, He's Organizations: Inc, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Greensill, New York Stock Exchange Locations: California, SPAC

Card 5 of 9New mysteries offer plenty of suspense. Background Image: In this illustration, a figure lies on a beach on a striped towel, a book over their eyes. On the left is a figure who recalls Sherlock Holmes. He is wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, and bending down to peer at the sand through a magnifying glass.

☆ Brave Dames and Melancholy Detectives
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Isaacs had never deliberately written a mystery series character until 2019’s “Takes One to Know One,” which introduced the former F.B.I. agent and occasional translator Corie Schottland Geller. Corie returns in BAD BAD SEYMOUR BROWN (Atlantic Monthly Press, 400 pp., $28), fully adjusted to life in her suburban Long IslandMcMansion with her handsome judge husband and daughter. license, and because of the pandemic, her parents have fled Queens and moved in, too. And like other Isaacs characters, Corie Geller is wonderful company for the reader.

☆ Meet the brightest investors and dealmakers under 35 from firms like Blackstone and Bridgewater navigating today's choppy markets.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After months of interviews and countless rounds of fact checking, meet 25 best-in-class investors, traders, and dealmakers under the age of 35, from firms like JPMorgan, BlackRock, and Apollo, among others. Here is the latest crop of rising stars — Wall Streeters under the age of 35 who are pushing their teams to the top. The end result celebrates people from all walks of life who are infusing new ideas at the biggest firms. He works across the firm's funds TPG Capital and TPG Growth, and also covers TPG's impact-oriented initiative called The Rise Fund. HBCUvc's operating chief reviews hundreds of applications for the program that offers paid internships at VC firms.

☆ Wall Street shops get dinged for nearly $2 billion in penalties for failing to police bankers' use of Whatsapp
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some of the world's largest banks from Goldman Sachs to Morgan Stanley will cough up nearly $2 billion in penalties to the US regulators for failing to sufficiently monitor their employees' use of unauthorized messaging apps. At the heart of the matter here are bankers' use of communications platforms like Whatsapp or Signal. These are encrypted messaging apps that bankers regularly use to communicate with clients and even journalists. The largest US banks, boutiques, and European lenders were caught up in a probe around the use of unauthorized messaging apps. Whatsapp, for example, is a popular messaging app with bankers dealing with clients based outside the US.

☆ Credit Suisse's investment bankers are bracing for another case of 'rinse and repeat' as they await the bank's second strategic review in a year. Insiders describe an environment of uncertainty and cy
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Investment bankers at Credit Suisse are stuck in limbo and are bracing for heavy cuts as the bank rolls out another strategic review. Among the plans reported to be under consideration are a three-way split of the investment bank, according to the Financial Times. This review of the investment banking business is Credit Suisse's second in a year. Credit Suisse will update the market when it reports third-quarter results on October 27. Bracing for changeThe investment bank was known as Credit Suisse First Boston until 2005.

☆ Goldman Sachs' bankers get their marching orders as Wall Street starts to purge under-performers
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The cuts come after Goldman's investment bank logged a 41% dip in year-over-year revenues in July. Goldman Sachs has started wielding the axe at its investment bank. The job cuts are likely to echo across Wall Street, particularly within investment-banking divisions like capital markets and M&A advisory, bankers told me. US lawmakers pressed bank chief executives on reports of fraud on the Zelle payments network. Wall Street is completely delusional about the pain that is coming for the stock market.

☆ Credit Suisse bankers are preparing for 'Uli the Knife' to carve up the investment bank.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

It's a tense time for many insiders at Credit Suisse. One person told me it's a case of "rinse and repeat," as Credit Suisse undergoes its second strategic review in less than a year. Law firm sued Credit Suisse over claims it misled investors on business dealings related to Russian oligarchs. Among the plans reported to be under consideration are a three-way split of the investment bank, according to the Financial Times. Under Chief Executive Ulrich Körner, Credit Suisse wants to transform its investment bank into a "capital-light, advisory-led banking business."

☆ Gone are the days of chunky bonuses and salary increases. Wall Street's top brass are ready to trim their workforces as annual staff cuts return.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

It's a shift from this time last year, when junior bankers scored significant pay bumps, dealmaking reached record-breaking highs, and investment bankers prepared themselves for some of the chunkiest bonuses they'd ever received. Per this story from Bloomberg, however, the layoffs should not be as severe as what Wall Street experienced after market crashes in 1987 and 2008. For many, the return of staff cuts is kind of a return to normalcy. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images2. Credit Suisse is planning on splitting its investment bank into three parts, according to the Financial Times. The US Securities and Exchange Commission will let Wall Street keep payment-for-order flow, per Bloomberg.

☆ Don McCree is spearheading Citizens Bank's push into New York. He has just overseen the acquisition of HSBC's branches in the city, and was in town this week for Citizens' official launch into the Big
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

McCree was in New York this week for Citizens official launch in the city. The bank snapped up HSBC’s bank branches, and McCree is confident this boost in retail banking will lead to more business in commercial banking. He calls it the "hole in the donut" for Citizens' deeper push into retail banking. So when HSBC decided to exit retail banking in New York, McCree and his fellow Citizens executives pounced. "There's so many companies, for example, in lower Manhattan looking for a new bank," McCree said.

☆ Staffers say Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has asked them to help with his DJ account
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lisa Ryan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

David Solomon is working hard to build up David Solomon. On a Friday in late July, the Goldman Sachs CEO boarded the company's Gulfstream G650 for Chicago. And that's the latest in a string of actions showing the intertwining interests of David Solomon the CEO and chairman and the interests of Goldman Sachs itself, my colleague Dakin Campbell reports. Staffers say they've been asked to help with his DJ account and they've noted a new emphasis on sports endorsements. Millennium Management tapped Goldman Sachs alum Olga Naumovich to build out its Miami tech hub.

☆ Josh Harris co-founded Apollo, but his ownership of the 76ers and Devils was a distraction and a 'source of tension' for former employees.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He stepped away from day-to-day activities at Apollo Global Management — the private-equity firm he co-founded — in May last year. Josh Harris upset Apollo insiders with the amount of time he spent on personal investments. During meetings for Apollo matters, Harris would sometimes take phone calls unrelated to the company, one person told Insider. Harris would also use Apollo employees to help on personal investments. People who worked on Harris' personal investments became "untouchable" within the organization.

☆ Walmart's secretive fintech ONE is the new disruptor in consumer banking, and the retailer has nabbed talent from Wall Street mainstays like Goldman Sachs.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In January last year, the retailer said it was pursuing a partnership with venture-capital firm Ribbit Capital, which backed Robinhood. The next month, Walmart lured Omer Ismail and David Stark, two executives from Goldman Sachs' Marcus, over to work on a fintech initiative. Insider's Ann Gehan, Carter Johnson, and Ben Tobin have identified the key people shaping this effort at its fintech called ONE. Done deals :Acrisure, a fintech company that operates an insurance broker and real-estate services company, has acquired B2Z Insurance. Aditxt, a biotech company developing tech around monitoring the immune system, raised $20 million after selling 3.33 million shares on Nasdaq.

☆ Wall Street's biggest investors can't shake a nightmare about the US economy. And that fear is much worse than a recession.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Talk of a recession, rough inflation data, and the persistent increase in costs of certain staple goods has got Wall Street's biggest investors living in fear of an economic nightmare. Wall Street has been hit by a brutal market sell-off this year. Wall Street investors fear an economic nightmare. BMO Capital Markets is cutting jobs amid the broader downturn in dealmaking, according to Bloomberg. Private-equity investment firm Corsair has made an investment in Miracle Mile Advisors, a wealth advisory firm based in Los Angeles.

☆ SoftBank's View just narrowly escaped running out of money. Here's how it went from investor darling to one of the worst SPAC deals ever.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-08 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | Aaron Weinman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The California glassmaker announced on October 27 that it raised $200 million in convertible senior notes due in 2027. View has struggled since going public less than two years ago via SPAC, and was nearly delisted by the New York Stock Exchange for failing to file numerous financial statements. For those looking from the outside, View's troubles came on suddenly, but insiders said the company burned cash and struggled with product failures for years. Insider spoke with 27 former employees and two current employees across View's finance, sales, marketing, factory-operations, engineering, recruiting, and IT departments. "He's always been able to pull a rabbit out of a hat when it comes to procuring more money for the company," one banker familiar with View said.

☆ Execs at Bank of America, Cognizant, and Walmart share how they think about, measure, and finance sustainability goals on the path to net zero
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-15 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals are not being met because the ESG bond market is way behind. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. But funding is still way behind when it comes to the environmental aspect, said Karen Fang, the managing director and global head of sustainable finance at Bank of America. Kathleen McLaughlin, the executive vice president and chief sustainability officer at Walmart, said that ESG issues are connected to the long-term prospects of any company. McLaughlin said that Walmart has high ESG ambitions as a company and eventually wants to become regenerative.

☆ I started my new role as LinkedIn's CEO during the pandemic. Here's what I learned from my first 6 months on the job.
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-14 | by ( Ryan Roslansky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Roslansky shares what he's learned the first six months of being CEO and leading the company through a pandemic. It's been six months since I became LinkedIn's chief executive and, as I shared on day one, I never imagined I'd step into this new role during a pandemic. As we near the one-year mark of the pandemic, it's become clear our lives won't likely return to a pre-COVID-19 "normal." The only way you learn to be a CEO is by being a CEO, and there have been countless learnings every day about managing through uncertainty. Provide the resources working parents need to be successful as they're juggling work, childcare, and distance learning all from home.

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