Investment Banking Updates – Page 12 – Investment Banking Updates

IBKR Posts Strong Q3 2025: Revenue & Client Base Surge, Margins Soar

Leave a Comment / Brokerage & Trading, Crypto & Digital Assets, Earnings Reports, Financial Markets, Fintech / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Interactive Brokers delivered strong Q3 2025 results, with EPS and...

Client growth and engagement remained robust, as accounts, client ...

Pretax margins expanded sharply to about 79% thanks to lower non-i...

Risks center on net interest margin compression, softer futures an...

BGC Q3 2025: Revenue Surges from Acquisitions, But Margin Pressures Mount

Leave a Comment / Brokerage Firms, Earnings Reports, Electronic Trading, Market Commentary, Mergers & Acquisitions / By Owen A. Radcliffe

BGC’s Q3 2025 revenue rose 31% year-over-year to $736.8 million,...

Electronic platforms FMX and Fenics are the main growth engines, g...

Margins compressed as compensation, non-compensation costs, and in...

While not directly comparable to full-service investment banks, BG...

How Early Misfit Roles Shape Your Career: Scott Galloway’s Lessons on Clarity & Growth

Leave a Comment / Career Development, Careers in Finance, Investment Banking Insights, Leadership & Personal Growth, Profiles & Interviews / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway started his career in investment banking at Morgan ...

Despite hating the job, he gained rigorous training in detail, pro...

He frames leaving banking not as failure but as honest recognition...

For young professionals, he recommends using even disliked early r...

Why Discomfort in Investment Banking Can Be a Signal of Fit—not Failure

Leave a Comment / Career Advice, Finance Careers, Investment Banking, Professional Development, workplace culture / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway’s miserable, insecure stint as a Morgan Stanley a...

He still views the experience as pivotal because it built discipli...

Galloway rejects “follow your passion,” arguing most people sh...

His story suggests using early, prestigious jobs as testing ground...

Scott Galloway on Career Growth: Embracing Discomfort, Feedback & Resilience

Leave a Comment / Career Development, Careers in Finance, Investment Banking, Leadership & Management, workplace culture / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway entered investment banking at Morgan Stanley, quick...

Despite the misfit, he credits the experience with teaching discip...

He argues early careers should be used to “workshop” different...

The broader lesson is to avoid romanticizing elite firms or entrep...

How Scott Galloway Turned Early Investment Banking Frustration Into a Career of Clarity

Leave a Comment / Career Advice, Entrepreneurship, Investment Banking, Personal Branding, Personal Finance / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway took a prestigious investment banking job at Morgan...

Leaving banking, he redirected into branding, consulting, and star...

He argues that success comes from the intersection of what you’r...

Having amassed low nine-figure wealth and “hit his number,” he...

Vietnam’s Healthcare Sector Booms: M&A Surge in Pharma & Hospitals

Leave a Comment / Healthcare M&A, Hospitals & Healthcare Services, Pharmaceuticals, Private Equity, Vietnam Markets / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Vietnam’s healthcare sector is seeing strong 2025 M&A momentum, ...

Flagship deals include Livzon’s ~US$221 million purchase of ~65%...

Healthcare M&A reached about US$4.8 billion in the first eight mon...

Complex regulations, licensing, valuation standards, and accredita...

Scott Galloway on How Painful Early Finance Roles Shape Powerful Careers

Leave a Comment / Career Advice, Careers in Finance, Entrepreneurship, Investment Banking, Personal Development / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway took an investment banking job at Morgan Stanley mo...

Despite being a poor fit and leaving after about two years, he cre...

Those skills became the foundation for his later success in entrep...

He urges young professionals to view early corporate roles as trai...

How Early Misfits & Tough Roles Built Scott Galloway’s True Strengths

Leave a Comment / Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Finance Careers, Investment Banking, workplace culture / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway describes his early investment banking job at Morga...

He argues that early careers should be used to “workshop” diff...

Banking taught him attention to detail, endurance under pressure, ...

He cautions young professionals to weigh the learning and credenti...

How Scott Galloway’s Tough Start in Investment Banking Forged His Career Clarity

Leave a Comment / Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Finance Careers, Investment Banking, workplace culture / By Owen A. Radcliffe

Scott Galloway describes his two years in investment banking as a ...

He credits the role with teaching him technical finance skills, ex...

The experience revealed his insecurity and discomfort in large cor...

He argues that early-career misfit jobs can still be valuable trai...