New York
The life of a Wall Street trader was once one of business trips and work dinners, but now it is anything but. The culprit, as with so many of the economic and financial disruptions the United States has faced over the past months, is the coronavirus pandemic, which has rendered life for the brokers, bankers and businesspeople fueling the world’s largest economy much more lonely. People working on high-priced transactions like IPOs, bond deals or mergers and acquisitions “used to travel a lot to meet with clients” who would typically only sign agreements in-person, recalls Karl Haeling of LBBW bank. “Now they would very happily give mandate without seeing you,” said Haeling.— AFP
