Bankers Relish Big-Fish Roles in Smaller Ponds

摘要

Wall Street banks have been losing talent to hedge funds, buyout firms, and technology companies. Now they have new competition for recruits: smaller lenders in Ohio, Rhode Island, and other states outside the financial establishment. About half the new hires for senior-level openings at midsize regional banks are people whose resumes list institutions such as Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, says Robert Voth, a managing director in the financial-services group at Russell Reynolds Associates, a recruiting firm. The share was about a fifth before the 2008 credit crisis.