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The Great Poach: How Wall Street’s Elite Banks Are Raiding Each Other for Proven Talent
As deal pipelines strengthen and attrition looms, elite banks are abandoning passive recruiting to aggressively target proven performers from direct competitors. The lateral recruiting market for investment bankers has entered a new era—one that looks nothing like the...
Wall Street Reverses Course: Johnson Report Projects Broadly Positive Bonuses for 2025
In a dramatic reversal from earlier projections, the financial services industry is now bracing for broadly positive year-end bonuses across most sectors in 2025, according to Johnson Associates' latest report released November 5, 2025. This marks a significant shift...
Why F-1 STEM OPT Students Can Finally Breathe Again: What the October Clarification Really Means
The first sign of hope since September's chaos—though banks are still figuring out what comes next What Actually Happened September 19, 2025 felt like a gut punch for international students trying to break into investment banking. Trump signed an executive action...
The $400B AI Spending Spree Hits a Wall: Why Your IB Job Might be Safer Than You Think
The numbers are staggering. Tech giants Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet are on track to spend nearly $400 billion on AI-focused capital expenditures in 2025, with Morgan Stanley projecting an additional $2.9 trillion in AI-related investment between 2025 and...
OpenAI Just Hired 100 Ex-Bankers to Replace You: Here’s the Timeline
What Happens When Banks Can License AI Instead of Hiring You? If you're an investment banking analyst—or planning to become one—here's what you need to know: OpenAI has assembled over 100 former bankers from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Evercore, and KKR....
Beyond Goldman’s 1,000 Layoffs: How AI Could Reshape Investment Banking Compensation and Careers
Image Credit: NY Post The Paradox On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs posted results that most banks would celebrate without qualification: profit up 37% to $4.1 billion, revenue climbing 20% to $15.18 billion, investment banking fees surging 42%. The firm is on track for its...
2022 Investment Banking Compensation Report
Wall Street’s MD Hiring Spree May Freeze Promotion Pipelines Through 2027
Wall Street's MD Hiring Spree May Freeze Promotion Pipelines Through 2027 A recent wave of lateral recruitment has expanded MD ranks across the industry—and two-year guarantees protecting new hires could constrain advancement at multiple levels Investment banks spent...
What Investment Banks Might Start Looking for as AI Reshapes Junior Roles
The Inconvenient Truth About How Investment Bankers Are Made Investment banking has long operated on a convenient fiction: that the skills required to be a good analyst have much to do with the skills required to be a good managing director. They don't, really. Never...
JPMorgan’s AI Strategy Could Eliminate Two-Thirds of Junior Investment Banking Jobs in New York and London
The Transformation Underway JPMorgan Chase is exploring a dramatic restructuring of its investment banking workforce, with proposals under discussion to reduce the ratio of junior bankers to senior managers from 6-to-1 to 4-to-1, according to recent reports. However,...
Elite Boutique Faces Disability Discrimination Trial Over Analyst’s Work Hours
Junior Banker's Lawsuit Questions Whether All-Night Availability Is Essential Function of Wall Street Analyst Role Legal Battle Puts Investment Banking's Grueling Work Culture Under Federal Court Scrutiny A Manhattan federal court has dealt a significant blow to one...
Banks May Need to Reassess Hiring Practices Given New H-1B Proclamation
President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation requiring a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas, representing what experts are calling one of the most dramatic changes to the skilled worker program in decades. The new policy, which took effect immediately on...