Relatedly, Goldman is looking to increase its ranks of junior mistmakers.

Financial firms in London, besieged by Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis, probably will shrink their workforce this year, snapping a hiring rebound from 2008’s credit crisis as New York’s industry ekes out job growth. Banks, insurers and other financial-services firms may eliminate about 3,000 jobs across greater London as companies in the New York region add 9,000, according to U.K.-based researcher Oxford Economics Ltd. London’s proximity to the debt crisis is undermining the city’s efforts to gain on its trans-Atlantic rival. While Wall Street also is suffering from a global slowdown in trading and deal-making, North American banks are benefiting from a surge in consumer lending…Some large banks are offsetting senior-staff reductions by recruiting less-expensive workers. New York-based Goldman Sachs, seeking to cut $500 million of costs, expects its workforce to feature a greater proportion of junior employees by year-end, Chief Financial Officer David A. Viniar, 57, said July 17. “Wall Street is tilting toward younger, up-and-coming talent,” Kahn said.

London Firings Seen Surging As Finance Firms Add Jobs In NY [Bloomberg]

Comments (20)

  1. Posted by guest | August 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM

    not so fast tonto, NY replacements are software crunchers

  2. Posted by VonSloneker | August 17, 2012 at 2:47 PM

    I can see the Bender & Bender age discrimination commercials already…

    - Oracle at Delphi Automotive

  3. Posted by Anon | August 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM

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  4. Posted by Lloyd | August 17, 2012 at 3:00 PM

    That's what I like about these Analysts; I get older , they stay the same age

  5. Posted by Guest | August 17, 2012 at 3:00 PM

    “Wall Street is tilting toward younger, up-and-coming talent,”

    Yes, that is true.

    G. Soros

  6. Posted by Guest | August 17, 2012 at 3:03 PM

    Bess,

    Is this your way of telling us Matt is leaving?

  7. Posted by D. "Pink" Viniar | August 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM

    That's what I like about these analysts' comp packages; mine gets bigger, theirs stay the same, and actually sometimes get a bit smaller.

  8. Posted by Guest | August 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM

    Oh, Noooo!

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  9. Posted by Old Guy To You Maybe | August 17, 2012 at 4:06 PM

    Viniar's statement was pretty dumb. I'm surprised GS let him say it. Age discrimination actions will have that as their motto on email "signatures". Imagine the reactions here if he had said, "Wall Street is tilting toward whiter, up and coming talent…..".

  10. Posted by Guest | August 17, 2012 at 4:52 PM

    Zoom-zoom-zoom

    –JD

  11. Posted by Guest | August 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM

    OK, I'm imagining. What was it you were talking about?

  12. Posted by 25th Hour Trader | August 17, 2012 at 6:12 PM

    "Some large banks are offsetting senior-staff reductions by recruiting less-expensive workers. "

    You know who else employs the strategy of hiring the lowest bidder – the U.S. government – and look how successful they are.

    -Trader who would like to remind those doing the hiring you can't find alpha in a discount bin at TJX.

  13. Posted by Guest | August 18, 2012 at 2:57 AM

    Maybe, but in the U.S. only people 40 or over are a protected class for age discrimination. For anyone 39 or younger laid off by GS, it doesn't matter.

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  20. Posted by Ahli Kompi | June 18, 2013 at 5:29 PM

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