Corporate and commercial bankers are quitting to work for private equity and debt funds

If you work in lending for a bank, and you’re good at your job, now is a very good time to trade up. That was the message of a new study, which looked at who’s leaving big banks and where they’re going: Big banks are losing commercial lenders to ‘less regulated environments’

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