The French are planning cuts, but only for those who want ‘em. Everyone else can stay. Read more »
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More cuts a-comin’ for the House of Dougan. Read more »
You may not believe this, but a few weeks ago I spoke to a business school class about the financial industry, and a student asked me “what would you say to someone who’s considering a career at an investment bank?” Somehow it did not occur to me to congratulate her on her humanitarian impulses. Instead, I suggested that there are two possible futures for the big banks. In one, the various efforts to “make banking boring” – more onerous capital and liquidity regulation, clearing and futurization of derivatives, bans on prop trading, calls to break up big banks, and so forth – would create amazing opportunities for people with the intelligence, motivation, and shall we say aesthetic sensibilities to find new ways to accomplish their non-boring goals within a shifting framework. Just like changes in the tax code create work for smart tax lawyers, so changes in banking regulation and structure create opportunities for smart bankers to steal a march on their competitors.1
In the other possible future, banking would be boring.2 Today is a dark day: Read more »
The House of Lloyd is said to be doing its annual cut of the bottom 5 percent and then some later this week. Read more »
Cuts are said to have gone down at the House o’ Dimon this morning, apparently affecting a handful of equities employees.
The Brits are said to have alerted some staff that their services are no longer required at the bank. Read more »
Earlier this week Barlcays promised not to dawdle when it comes to canning the 2,000 employees slated to be cut. Today employees in Asia got to experience that follow-through in action! Read more »
Cuts are said to be going down in New York. Read more »
Cuts are expected to go down in Asia. (Update: and elsewhere!) Read more »
More cuts at the House of Dougan, on top of the ones in Russia, were said to have gone down today. Read more »
Cuts are said to be going down circa now at the Swiss bank. Sales and Trading was Tuesday and Wednesday. Read more »
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You know what they say: You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your financial planner. Or something like that. One of the great things of being in charge of your money is choosing who (if anyone) will help you manage it. The choice isn’t always an easy one. How will you know that your planner is reputable and trustworthy?
These five red flags may be good indications of whether the financial planner sitting across from you is someone you should trust with your money. LearnVest Planning also provides an innovative 7-step program for your money where you work one-on-one with a financial planner. To see if this program is right for you, start with a free financial consultation.
1. She Isn’t Certified
“There are a lot of good planners out there who aren’t Certified Financial Panners™,” says Samantha Vient, CFP®, of LearnVest Planning Services. “However, CFPs® are required to adhere to the CFP® Board’s standards of professional conduct.We believe it’s always a good idea to work with someone who has the CFP® designation, which is issued after completing a CFP® Board-approved personal financial planning curriculum, passing a rigorous exam issued by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, meeting experience requirements and passing an ethics and background check.
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SoFi Answers the Call to Refinance Student Loans and Provides Unique Community Benefits
This is a guest post written by SoFi’s CEO, Mike Cagney.
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Recently, there’s been a lot of talk amongst leaders in Washington about how to improve the painful process of repaying student loans. At SoFi, we feel your pain and work hard to offer more flexible, more affordable options for our borrowers. One idea that’s getting a lot of attention is increasing the options for refinancing debt after graduation. The only lender currently focused on refinancing private and federal student loans is SoFi.
We recognized early on that borrowers who have made timely payments on their loans, graduated from school, and have a job should be able to refinance their student loans at a lower interest rate. This may be why, after resuming lending by invitation, the media became increasingly interested in what we are doing.
In a recent article posted on MainStreet.com SoFi General Counsel Rob Lavet had this to say about SoFi’s ReFi products: Read more »
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