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Rogo Was Supposed to Shrink the Junior Class. Instead It’s Creating More Work for Associates and VPs.

Rogo Was Supposed to Shrink the Junior Class. Instead It’s Creating More Work for Associates and VPs.

by meridith dennes | Aug 21, 2026 | Campus Recruiting, Lateral Recruiting, News

Rogo raised its latest round at a valuation that pushed the company past $2 billion. The pitch, repeated across every piece of coverage, was simple: banks run leaner. Fewer juniors needed. The model-building, comp-pulling, deck-formatting grunt work that used to...
Lazard’s Not So Quiet Signal: Why Senior Bankers Everywhere Should Be Paying Attention

Lazard’s Not So Quiet Signal: Why Senior Bankers Everywhere Should Be Paying Attention

by meridith dennes | Jul 28, 2026 | Layoffs, News

Lazard just did something that’s easy to read the wrong way. Read as a standalone story, an 80-plus managing director reduction alongside a 91% drop in quarterly net income looks like trouble. Read in context — a record dealmaking market, a firm mid-turnaround,...
JPMorgan First to Deploy AI Bank-Wide as Wall Street Braces for Biggest Workforce Shift

JPMorgan First to Deploy AI Bank-Wide as Wall Street Braces for Biggest Workforce Shift

by meridith dennes | May 27, 2026 | News

JPMorgan Chase’s decision to roll out artificial intelligence tools across its global investment banking operations is the latest and most visible signal that AI has moved from experiment to infrastructure on Wall Street. But to understand what’s really...
The End of the Suffering Premium: AI, Hours, and the Future of the Banking Bonus

The End of the Suffering Premium: AI, Hours, and the Future of the Banking Bonus

by meridith dennes | May 19, 2026 | Compensation Trends, News, Summer Internships

Why AI will make investment bankers more efficient — not redundant — and what that means for how they get paid Introduction: A Philosophy Built in the MIT AI Lab Dave Blundin is a serial entrepreneur, MIT-trained artificial intelligence pioneer, and the Founder and...
Blue Owl and Private Credit’s Stress Test: What PE Sponsors May Actually Be Thinking About

Blue Owl and Private Credit’s Stress Test: What PE Sponsors May Actually Be Thinking About

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  · ...
GS and MS Q4 Earnings Surge While JPM Navigates Timing

GS and MS Q4 Earnings Surge While JPM Navigates Timing

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...
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