“We are very busy, but it’s a different kind of busy, not with deals”
One capital markets banker explains how the job has changed in the face of the perma-crisis in financial markets
“The risk was always that these banks would walk away in a crisis”
A Russian expat in London’s financial sector casts doubt on the idea that international banks were ever a reliable safe haven in his home country
“The Koreans used to say: if you stick a pin in him, no blood comes out”
A banker in Seoul notes local suspicion at a somewhat robotic expat
“At this point venture capital is just a lottery. You can’t convince me otherwise”
One banker suggests that long-term successes amid the VC noise are more luck than judgement
“If you’re in the infrastructure business, people say it’s not really newsworthy – until it is. And that’s when you have a problem, because there’s a sewage spill on the front page”
An infrastructure specialist on the unique nature of the asset class