The reductions are expected to impact some 2,500 positions out of the roughly 83,000 the firm reported at the end of 2025. The exercise is global in nature, spanning the firm's three primary business units: Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management. The rationale for the reduction is a combination of shifting business priorities, a revised global location strategy, and individual performance reviews.
The battle for WBD played out amid a pivotal backdrop for Wall Street: a period investment banks hope will mark a full-throated M&A rebound, in which just landing a role on a deal of this size is as useful for one's street cred as actually winning it. Even advisers on the losing side will walk away with hefty fees, boardroom credibility, and proof they belong on the biggest mandates of the coming year.
Kathryn Shiber settled a lawsuit with boutique bank Centerview Partners on Saturday, two days before jury selection. She said the firmunlawfullyfired her in 2020 after granting heraccommodations for an underlying mood and anxiety disorder, including her request for eight hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. Court documents suggest that analysts on active deals at Centerview routinely worked between 60 and 120 hours a week.
Elon Musk's xAI is recruiting investment bankers to train its chatbot, offering between $45 and $100 an hour for a remote "Investment Banking Expert" in mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets, and equity capital markets, according to new job postings. The hires will help train Grok, the company's chatbot, Jeffrey Weichsel, who identifies himself as a member of the program staff at xAI on LinkedIn, said in a post on X.
Finance is a young person's arena. Long hours and stamina are treated as essential markers of a coveted hire. As I got older, I found myself wondering where that left someone like me: a middle-aged mom of three. I couldn't control getting older, so in 2022, at the age of 54, I became a full-time matchmaker. For the first time in my career, my age is an asset.
After a roughly six-month pause, private equity's on-cycle recruiting machine roared back to life last week. The process was just as frenzied, but recruiters said the extra time produced an unexpected upside: sharper, better-prepared candidates. The hiring restart came just as first-year bankers returned from the winter holidays. Firms began outreach for 2027 associate roles they had originally planned to fill in the summer, before banks cracked down on the practice.
These institutions are experiencing a golden spring in their businesses. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, Wall Street's biggest banks reported their financial results. These institutions have boosted their profits, exceeding all analysts' forecasts. The sector is experiencing a golden age, thanks largely to the exuberance of the stock market and the boom in corporate dealmaking, despite the uncertainty about the U.S. economy.
You get to brush up on your soft skills while picking up technical skills like financial modeling. The biggest lesson I learned from my time in investment banking was how to perform a wide variety of tasks efficiently. It also taught me how to ask the right questions when evaluating businesses. Working on deals honed my intellectual curiosity and sharpened my judgment when making investment decisions.
This was both a short- and long-term opportunity that was hard to pass up, given where the market is today in the mortgage space and the amount of M&A volume we're going to see over the next zero to five years, Guzzo said in an interview. It's going to be a very active time in the markets.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dana Schoolsky, a 24-year-old working in monetization strategy and operations at TikTok in New York City. It's been edited for length and clarity. When I worked in investment banking as an analyst, everything felt urgent, as if a fire alarm was going off at all times. I felt on edge even after leaving the office, never knowing when I might be called to action to do more work, which took a toll on me.
BofA Securities is the investment banking and capital markets division of Bank of America, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. The division provides a comprehensive range of services. These include equity and debt underwriting, mergers and acquisitions advisory, sales and trading, research, and capital markets solutions to corporate, institutional, and government clients worldwide. As a major player on Wall Street, BofA Securities competes with other bulge-bracket investment banks and maintains significant market share across various financial services sectors.
Bank of America is implementing a policy requiring junior bankers to disclose future job offers, addressing conflict-of-interest concerns while considering young bankers' ambitions.
Investment banks face rapid market changes and growing client demands, increasing regulatory demands, and the need to manage intricate client relationships that traditional spreadsheets and generic tools simply cannot handle effectively.
Cantor Fitzgerald is creating a bet mechanism for investors to wager on the legality of Trump’s tariffs, allowing companies to seek refunds if the tariffs are ruled unlawful.
