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Pretend, for a moment, that you are the sort of person who would lie to a female to get what you wanted in the short term. If you figured a (fictional) gig on Wall Street might help you attain certain goals, which firm would you go with? Depending on who the lie was being told do, most hedge funds would probably be out, as a) they’re not household names to the general population and b) should the lady in question happen to know the firm of which you speak, a staff of <1,000 could pose problems should she know someone else who works there and decide to do a background check. Restricted to banks, Goldman would presumably be the (fake) employer many would go with,** unless they wanted to come off as “finance-y, but also man of the people” in which case it’d be Citi. Jay D. Singh chose Deutsche Bank, which apparently worked just fine for quite some time. Read more »

Earlier this morning we briefly mentioned an anecdote from a new book by Nina Godiwalla called “Suits: A Woman On Wall Street,” about a Morgan Stanley official who, during an argument at a team dinner, leaned over “as if to whisper something in his junior colleague’s ear and then took a bite out of it, Mike Tyson style.” Some doubted the truth to the story but luckily, a few readers who were there at the time assured us that in fact true. Also, apparently some of you may know this guy, as the ear biting incident didn’t hurt his career, which, following MS, included being the CEO of Thomas Weisel and Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank Securities, a position he currently holds. Read more »

Sean George, a Deutsche Bank managing director in corporate bond and credit derivatives trading from Deutsche Bank recently accepted an offer to work at Jefferies, as the firm’s “first addition in credit derivatives trading.” A person familiar with the matter commented that Jefferies “must have thrown the kitchen sink at [George]” to get him to come over and that it was an “interesting move.” It feels as though this PFWTM wanted to say or meant to imply more, but couldn’t risk having it come back to him. What do you figure he was driving at?

Numbers are out this week and apparently there are “lots of unhappy campers” among associates and VPs. Read more »

He said so over the weekend. Read more »

Hint: think more lederhosen, less ritual sacrifice. Read more »

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The bank claims it wants its new casino, The Cosmpolitan, to be a success and yet… Read more »

Cuts going down circa now. Read more »