fixed income / structured product lay-offs

Can anyone add to the list?

1: RBC Fires Fixed-Income Salespeople Amid `Challenging Market' (Confirmed.)

2: Barclays Capital and RBS Greenwich Capital, Royal Bank of Scotlandâ€s US capital markets subsidiary, are among the first to change their structured credit arms in the last month. (Confirmed.)

3: DB / Citi?

4: GS moves half of its analyst class to operations

5: Rumors swirling around CS / BofA

6: I don't even want to know about BSC

we should keep an active post/forum where we can document the twilight of the asset class and provide some support.

 

i think we are still slightly to early to tell at the moment...late year layoffs generally happen early to mid october, in my experience.

i can tell you db, citi, calyon have taken large losses on credit and structured desks;

 

According to 2 friends in the analyst class (both in Charlotte), B of A is writing $50 k checks and telling kids to come back in a year

sweet gig if you can get it

EDIT: don't know how many/what proportion/what groups of the class

 

looks like most cuts are coming in origination groups, front office is letting go anyone who is unnecessary in a slow market... analysts running risk and PnL are prob safe, and most MDs. Anybody in the middle is prob fair game, first round of cuts was associate/VPs who are in the middle. if you're still around and work in a mortgage or CDO group the real danger is that your entire group gets the boot

 

it really depends. if the housing/credit markets rebound, hires continue, and vice versa. internships will probably be OK since many firms are always eager to make sure they keep a strong presence in the mind of potential future hires, but they may be less likely to extend a full-time offer to the interns, especially in that area. if an entire mortgage unit gets shut down, no reason to hire a new dude who will def be negative net PnL to the firm for at least 2 years probably.

 

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