Brokers: Welcome to the new Street
Wall Street and Canary Wharf are dead. Full-service investment banks are broken. And credit sales people are flocking to a new tier of firms. Laura Jones meets the key players. Rarely has a great industry declined so fast. It was not just the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers last year that marked the end of a particular age for the financial markets. It was also the dramatic fall in risk appetite at the remaining "bulge-bracket" firms and the wholesale exodus of staff.