Who are the key employees at top U.S. investment banks? – The relationship managers who bring in business from corporates? – The fixed income traders, who drove last year’s huge increase in revenues and profits? – The risk managers who prevent everything from […]
Tag: JPMorgan
How Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are using quantum computing
As we’ve reported before, banks have been busy building teams of quantum computing researchers. Today, the heads of those teams at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan presented their work at the Q2B Practical Quantum Computing conference. Goldman Sachs has recently assembled a “full team dedicated […]
First bank reveals bonus pool and it’s not bad
The bonus whispers have begun. If they’re to be trusted, JPMorgan traders can expect a 20% rise in bonuses but JPMorgan bankers can’t, and ‘flat will be the new up’ at Bank of America. One bank, however, has moved beyond the whisper stage. Today […]
JPMorgan’s Armageddon watcher says Trump could still win
If you thought 2020 was a difficult year, what with the pandemic, the near market meltdown in March and the rush to get everyone working from home, you might want to snatch some rest where you can. Michael Cembalest, the chairman of Market […]
JPMorgan bankers will be working from home forever
The whole industry has been pondering this strategic question for months, but according to an interview with Dan Pinto, JP Morgan has come to a decision – working from home, at least part of the time, is going to be a […]
Traders et télétravail : JPMorgan tire les leçons du confinement
La nécessité de tenir ses traders éloignés de la salle des marchés n’a pas été sans conséquence, et JPMorgan l’a appris à ses dépens. Comme le détaillait récemment le Wall Street Journal, un managing director en salle des marchés a rejoint […]
New reading list for technology jobs at JPMorgan & Goldman Sachs
If you want to future-proof your technology career in finance, you probably need to learn about quantum computing. As we’ve noted often before, banks are lining up quantum computing research teams and JPMorgan already boasts achievements in areas like quantum cryptography. Helpfully, therefore, quantum researchers […]
This year’s bonus season is going to be a nasty fight
Very few of us will ever be called to the table for the ultimate high-stakes poker game that is the high-level committee which divides up divisional bonus pools in a major investment bank. But nearly everyone in investment banking is […]
JPMorgan banker’s exceptionally intense lockdown
The lockdown intensity stories keep on coming: from the client who shut himself in his children’s bedroom and slept in their bunkbed during a four day remote roadshow, to ex-Barclays ‘Big Dog’ Roger Jenkins, who got stuck alone in a hotel the U.K. after […]
Inside the intrigue at the top of JPMorgan in France
JPMorgan’s recruitment of Maja Torun from Citi is an attempt to address its under-performance in France, where it is ranked lower than in any other European country. Torun is becoming head of investment banking, a role that had been vacant since Xavier Bindel […]