Strong CIB Performance in 2024-25: How Banks Can Navigate Nonbanks, AI & Digital Assets

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Corporate and investment banking remains profitable but faces stru...

Nonbank financial institutions, especially private credit, boutiqu...

Agentic AI and digital assets such as stablecoins enable large eff...

McKinsey argues CIBs that build lean, scalable models, pivot into ...

Scott Galloway’s Investment Banking Roots: Discipline, Insight & Cost

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<div class="section-block section-executivesummary”> Gist Scott Galloway spent two unhappy years in Morgan Stanley investment banking but considers it “great training” that built discipline and attention to detail. The intense, status-conscious corporate culture exposed his insecurity and misfit, leading him to conclude he lacked the skills and temperament for that environment. He argues your 20s should …

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What Scott Galloway Learned from Hating Investment Banking: Skills That Shaped His Career

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Scott Galloway spent two unhappy years in Morgan Stanley investmen...

Despite hating the job, he gained lasting skills in attention to d...

The experience clarified what he didn’t want—rigid hierarchies...

His story frames early painful roles as valuable boot camps that c...

From Investment Banking to Entrepreneurship: Scott Galloway’s Lessons in Humility & Self-Awareness

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Scott Galloway says he hated investment banking and was bad at it,...

The job exposed his insecurity, impatience, and poor fit with larg...

After leaving banking he founded and sold Profit, later rebuilding...

He stresses humility about success and self-forgiveness after fail...

JPMorgan’s Cost Pressures, EPAM’s AI Upside & Costco’s Margin Tightrope: What Investors Should Know

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JPMorgan is delivering strong trading and investment banking growt...

EPAM is guiding to mid-teens revenue and EPS growth on AI- and clo...

Costco continues to post solid sales and renewal metrics with marg...

Across JPMorgan, EPAM, and Costco, heavy investment, macro sensiti...

Macquarie Group’s Corporate Risks: Governance Strains Behind Mixed Financials

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There is no credible evidence of specific internal "ructions" in M...

Macquarie faces mounting governance pressure, including a sharehol...

Group profit is growing modestly, with strong contributions from A...

Key uncertainties centre on leadership accountability, potential b...

South Korea’s Regulatory Shift: Easing Banking-Commerce Separation to Fuel AI & Semiconductor Growth

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South Korea plans to ease rules separating banking and commerce to...

Regulatory changes include loosening equity caps and adjusting ban...

The government will create a sovereign wealth fund to improve stat...

Civic groups warn the reforms could entrench the power of chaebols...
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