During JPMorgan's third-quarter earnings call (here's how the bank beat analysts' estimates), CEO Jamie Dimon issued a blank check to get ahead of the growing competition from buy now, pay later companies. More on what Dimon said about tackling BNPL competition.
Blackstone has developed a cloud-based tool that's overhauling how the PE giant collects and analyzes data across its $411 billion real-estate portfolio. Real Estate Data Direct, or REDD, is part of an effort to compile data from its portfolio companies. Everything we know about REDD so far.
Grant Wonders, a 31-year-old Viking alum, launched Voyager Global this year, raising over $1 billion. Wonders is one of several Viking graduates who've started their own funds in the past three years - and there's one more on the way. Here's how "entrepreneurial DNA," deep pockets, and top-tier training created the perfect breeding ground for the next generation of hedge-fund superstars.
Beacon, a fintech helping Wall Street better analyze risk and data, raised its Series C this week, scoring funding from Warburg Pincus, Blackstone, and PIMCO. We got a look at the 20-page pitch deck it used to woo some of the country's biggest investment managers - see it here.
We asked our 2021 class of Wall Street rising stars to share the books that informed both their career and personal growth. What they gave us was a handful of reads from the rise of Jeff Bezos' empire to how to live a happier life. Here are 15 of their recommendations.
On our radar:
Bloomberg reported on Jane Fraser's plan to reinvent Citigroup. Read it here.
Promoting your colleagues' ideas over your own could boost your influence at work. Here's why.
Legal-tech startup ContractPodAi used this pitch deck to convince SoftBank's Masa Son to lead its $115 million Series C. Check out the deck here.
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