These are precarious times for the employees of financial firms, what with regulators elbowing each other over the biggest and best cases, looming criminal charges arising from the Justice Department’s Libor investigation, to say nothing of the SEC’s willingness to target middle managers (i.e. Brian Stoker), criminal investigations into JPMorgan’s trading losses, recent verdicts in municipal bond bid-rigging cases, etc. Point being, there’s plenty to worry about that. Read More