The number of qualified staff for each vacancy in the City of London is at the highest for two years, according to a financial services recruitment firm.

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‘More competition’ for City jobs

Financial firms are preparing to dole out huge amounts of stock at depressed prices, the value of which could rise substantially in a few years.

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DealBook: Modest Bonus Year on Wall St., but Stock Could Yield Fortunes

About $200 million in customer money that vanished from MF Global is believed to have surfaced at JPMorgan Chase in Britain, according to people briefed on the matter.

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DealBook: Money Found in Britain May Belong to MF Global

The court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of MF Global’s brokerage now estimates that the shortfall in the firm’s customer funds could be more than $1.2 billion — double previous estimates.

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DealBook: MF Global Trustee Says Shortfall Could Exceed $1.2 Billion

Authorities are growing more concerned about what went wrong at MF Global as they comb through some 38,000 customer accounts.

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DealBook: With MF Global Money Still Missing, Suspicions Grow

Jon S. Corzine resigned as chief executive of MF Global, and officials briefly thought they had located $600 million in missing customer money.

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DealBook: Corzine Out at Firm as Search for Missing Funds Continues

For four months, regulators issued warnings that MF Global needed to raise more capital, but the firm’s chief executive, Jon S. Corzine, resisted.

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DealBook: Many Alarms Rang Before MF Global Crashed

The fall of MF Global, and the discovery that hundreds of millions of dollars were missing from the firm’s customer accounts, have cast a dark cloud over Jon S. Corzine’s legacy.

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DealBook: In Corzine Comeback, Big Risks and Steep Fall

In an effort to secure lucrative brokerage and trading business, big banks like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America have become powerful recruiting forces for their biggest hedge fund clients.

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DealBook: For Hedge Funds, Free Recruiting Is Wall St. Perk

If consummated, the new joint venture would operate both McGraw-Hill’s venerable Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average.

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DealBook: McGraw-Hill in Talks to Lead Stock Indexes Joint Venture

British regulators want to know why the Swiss bank failed to detect the huge losses that a trader was piling up.

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DealBook: UBS Faces Questions on Oversight After a Trader Lost $2 Billion

British regulators want to know why the Swiss bank failed to detect the huge losses that a trader was piling up.

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DealBook: UBS Faces Questions on Oversight After a Trader Lost $2 Billion

A proposed agreement with the S.E.C. would end an investigation over whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac adequately disclosed their exposure to risky subprime loans.

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DealBook: Fannie and Freddie Near Settlement With Regulators

Christopher W. Ullman, the global head of communications for the Carlyle Group, is also a four-time international whistling champion.

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DealBook: Puckering Up, With a Piano Concerto at His Lips

Opponents of Dodd-Frank are looking to pursue legal battles after a federal court struck down an S.E.C. rule that would have made it easier for shareholders to nominate company directors.

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DealBook: Court Ruling Offers Path to Challenge Dodd-Frank