Grim scenes in London

[BlasterBates]

...and the blood flows...

UBS Banking Job Cuts Set to Hit London Hard

[Dallas]

...and the blood flows...

UBS Banking Job Cuts Set to Hit London Hard

Over a 3 year period

Meh

[Paddy]

thank goodness I use firewire

[BlasterBates]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...fice-door.html

It was like a scene out of the Village of the Damned up there,” said one of the UBS bankers

[AtW]

"UBS said in July that the botched stock market listing of social networking giant Facebook cost it £227m. It blamed the loss on the "gross mishandling" of the flotation by Nasdaq, which involved a series of technical errors that caused a delay in the start of trading of Facebook shares in May."

[thunderlizard]

£227m

or 1/7 of an Adoboli, in UBS terms.

[AtW]

or 1/7 of an Adoboli, in UBS terms.

Small change, innit?

If it wasn't a Swiss bank it would be ok

[Mich the Tester]

"UBS said in July that the botched stock market listing of social networking giant Facebook cost it £227m. It blamed the loss on somebody else"

ftfy, sort of sums up the banking pseudo-profession that way.

[The Spartan]

Loved this part in the Grauniad

Outside the offices, a recruitment consultant hovered in the hope of catching bankers on their way out. "I'm probably being slightly predatory," he admitted. "But I do genuinely want to try and find these people jobs."

[Mich the Tester]

Good comment;

'Yours sincerely', when addressed to Dear Colleague.
Criminally poor English, and hopefully it voids the entire content of the letter

I agree. I'd really prefer to be sacked by someone with something resembling an education.