The Joris Luyendijk banking blog
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Joris Luyendijk: Today's interviewee shatters the illusion held by many bankers that they operate in a meritocracy. Often, it's a question of 'fit'
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Joris Luyendijk: Kilian Wawoe says that as long as the bonus culture exists, bankers cannot be blamed for being 'immoral', as they are forced to operate with a different set of rules
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Joris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: Today's interviewee – a quant, or maths 'genius', who worked at managing director level, says bankers are not self-serving idiots
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Joris Luyendijk: Today's interviewee says he doesn't recognise the picture painted by many contributors to this blog. Join the discussion
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Joris Luyendijk: The most hated sub-culture in banking is fixed income. Today's interviewee spills the beans on the pressure to be at the cutting edge
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Joris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: A former director-level fixed-income banker exposes the cut-throat world of creating instruments for investment banks
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Joris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: A former trader speaks about the 'mesmerising' trading floor and the sense of competition that pervaded everything
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Joris Luyendijk: How can you make a bank safe when staff can run up gigantic losses while having seemingly zero loyalty towards it?
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Joris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: A group financial reporting manager gives her perspective on banker-bashing, the 'too big to manage' question and external auditors
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Voices of financeGroup financial reporting manager: 'We need to allow people to work in banks without being made to feel like villains'Joris Luyendijk
Joris Luyendijk: An accountant who compiles annual financial reports for a bank talks about being tarred with the same brush as bankers
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Joris Luyendijk: 'I may have fallen victim to the self-serving idea that we control our fate; as long as you're good, nothing bad can happen to you'
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Joris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: Nyla Nox worked in the graphics department of a major bank and talks of the abusive survival-of-the-fittest culture. Share your experiences in the thread below
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Joris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: A woman working night shifts in graphics for a major bank, talks of the systematic abuse and poor working conditions she faced
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Joris Luyendijk: Jailing reckless bankers is a dangerously incomplete solution. The market is bust. Institutions that are too big to fail are too big to exist
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Voices of finance'You don't work for the bank – you work for someone and his world'Joris LuyendijkJoris Luyendijk: Voices of finance: This interviewee, with experience of the back-office of investment banks, suggests they aren't coherent entities but a series of poorly managed fiefdoms
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