Investigators pouring over Bernard Madoff's books said they have discovered the money manager falsified documents to hide massive losses to investors in a fraud case that could take months to unravel, an official helping to oversee the firm's liquidation said. ...more

December 17, 2008

Raymond James Financial Inc. said it had no history of marketing Madoff Investment Securities and no known exposure to the alleged Ponzi scheme that may cost investors billions of dollars. The St. Petersburg-based financial services company responded in a news release to a CNBC report on Friday that the brokerage had marketed funds in which Madoff was involved. ...more

December 16, 2008

Raymond James Financial Inc. said this week it has applied to be part of a federal plan to boost capital in financial institutions and spur lending. ...more

November 22, 2008

Thomas A. James, chairman and chief executive of St. Petersburg-based Raymond James Financial Inc., was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year in the financial services category. James was honored last week in Palm Springs, Calif., for the national award selected by an independent panel of judges from 400 regional award winners. Raymond James Financial has more than 4,900 advisers serving 1.8 million accounts. ...more

November 21, 2008

Congratulations, Raymond James, you're now the nation's largest investment bank. How? Because every other investment bank bigger than Raymond James Financial Inc. bit the dust last week or agreed to shotgun weddings with larger "commercial" banks that are perceived as more stable - stable by Wall Street standards. ...more

September 23, 2008

With deep losses and a credit crunch crippling Wall Street's biggest names in finance, now is the perfect time to buy a bank, says John H. Sykes. ...more

September 6, 2008

Anyone wanting to catch a glimpse of former NBA player Matt Geiger can achieve this by simply traveling to his neighborhood eatery. ...more

July 2, 2008

Anyone wanting to catch a glimpse of former NBA player Matt Geiger can achieve this by simply traveling to his neighborhood eatery. ...more

July 2, 2008

Dozens of people applied to be members of the newly formed Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority board. ...more

October 1, 2007