Web's Best – May 2021
Ex-UBS Banker's Messy Divorce
The split of Clive Standish, finance chief of the Swiss bank until 2007 and one of Australia's largest private landowners, and his wife landed in court after she accused him of assault. – May 25 / Daily Mail
Credit Suisse's Boom to Bust
How the Swiss bank went from the hottest prime broker in town with hedge funds begging to do business with it to a $4.7 billion wipeout on hedge fund-family office Archegos. – May 13 / Risk.net
Credit Suisse Overseer's Legacy
António Horta-Osório's biggest concern in his former job was burying a £10 billion mis-selling scandal. A look at any lessons for Credit Suisse from Lloyds' decade-long troubles. – May 5 / Guardian
Create Trading Floor Frenzy
How to make your home office-trading rig more atmospheric? – CNBC
Wall Street's Chief Memer
The investment banker behind the «Litquidity,» an irreverent take on Wall Street, is dropping his day job in favor of social media full-time. – May 11 / New York Magazine
Pictet Juggles Old And New
A look at how the Swiss wealth manager is being dragged into the modern age by younger bankers like Boris Collardi, a partner since 2019, and who is struggling to maintain its 216-year-old roots. – May 11 / Bloomberg
Women Lean Back Out
Eight years after Sheryl Sandberg's seminal career management guide-feminist manifesto urging women to «lean in» at work, many white-collar women are opting back out after a weary pandemic year. – May 2 / The Atlantic
Diem Admits Naivete
The Facebook-backed currency explains itself, including a surprising admission it bumbled its introduction to the world. – May 2 / The Block








