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The Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office: How Banks Organize Their Dungeons

Brian DeChesare

If you look online, you’ll find many threads, articles, and blog posts saying that back office (BO) and middle office (MO) jobs are “the worst” and that if you end up there, your career is over. Example Jobs at a Bank: Risk management, treasury, some legal/in-house counsel roles, counterparty credit, and some types of quant jobs.

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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

In business financing decisions , the cost of capital becomes an optimizing tool , where businesses look for a mix of debt and equity that reduces the cost of capital , and where matching up the debt (in terms of currency and maturity) to the assets r educes default risk and the cost of capital.

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FDIC Chair Discusses Three Financial Crises and Lessons for the Future

Reynolds Holding

Thrift and Bank Crisis of the 1980s Let me start by going back to 1980, when the banking and thrift industries had experienced more than four decades of stability. Most of these deposits were uninsured and started running quickly when questions emerged about Continentals viability.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2025: Global, Regional And Country Winners

Global Finance

Breaking technologies, including artificial intelligence, are redefining offerings in the foreign exchange market by incorporating new participants, reducing information asymmetries, and increasing competitiveness, he says. The bank has started an internal digitalization project to simplify and accelerate the workflow for FX transactions.

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