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The Tragic Investment Banker Death: Should Senior Bankers Go to Jail for Killing Their Junior Staff?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Tragedies like this show that the culture in investment banking hasn’t changed that much, despite banks’ claims that they are “trying” to improve things. The “crazy hours” in investment banking are mostly unwarranted and reflect poor senior leadership, bad project management, and misplaced priorities.

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Trading at the frontier

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Historically, investment banking and trading was fairly wild and there was a lack of control generally in terms of the way banks managed traders, P&L and risk,” he adds. Due to lower demand, bulge brackets will sometimes not cater for the particulars of what frontier traders are looking to execute. “Say

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