1) Trading
The financial trading industry has had a torrid year, hit by ongoing scandal, intensifying regulation, growing automation and low volatility amid overwhelming central bank intervention and liquidity provision.
The question is now whether global investment banks rethink macro trading as the cash cow it once was, whether further significant staff attrition is in the pipeline and whether dealing operations are further consolidated by bringing equities under the current fixed income, currencies and commodities banner.
This will have potentially big impacts on the armies of traders and analysts.
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