by meridith dennes | Mar 5, 2026 | Buy Side, News
Blue Owl Capital: Private Credit's Reckoning Moment ℹ Blue Owl stock under pressure, down ~60% from Jan 2025 peak · Blackstone reports elevated withdrawal requests from lending fund · Hedge fund Rubric Capital warns of asset-liability stress in private credit · ... 
by meridith dennes | Jan 16, 2026 | News
The narrative coming out of bank earnings this week isn’t about weakness in investment banking—it’s about where the strength concentrated. JPMorgan’s 5% year-over-year decline in fourth-quarter investment banking fees caught the headlines and sent... 
by meridith dennes | Jan 14, 2026 | Interviewing, News
Bank earnings show a Q4 timing shift, not a confidence problem JPMorgan’s 5% year-over-year decline in fourth-quarter investment banking fees was the number that caught everyone’s attention. The stock dropped nearly 3% despite an overall earnings... 
by meridith dennes | Nov 8, 2025 | Compensation Trends, News
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... 
by meridith dennes | Nov 2, 2025 | News, Visas
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... 
by meridith dennes | Nov 2, 2025 | Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, News
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...