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When Jane Fraser last week announced her plan to reorganize Citi and possibly eliminate some talented people in the process, the implication was that it might be a while before it came to fruition. The realignment wasexpected to take 30 days with the actual cuts to be announced next year (said the Financial Times). And yet, Citi has cut people today.

As Citi prepares to restructure the bank along the lineslaid out last week by CEO Jane Fraser (fewer divisions, fewer regional heads, probably alot of cuts in controls and technology), some people inside the bank say they'd like more appreciation. 

UBS might have put more and more people Credit Suisse people on the chopping block, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for fresh faces in the right departments. New people are joining just fine.

Brevan Howard, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, has been on a bit of a warpath with its hiring recently. It’s been adding portfolio managers around the world, from both banks and other funds.

Santander isn't only hiringsenior investment bankers from Credit Suisse. It's also hiring senior rates sales professionals from Goldman Sachs.

I work for a top French bank in Paris and I am upset with the culture here. There is a huge amount of nepotism.

As the media circus around Donald Trump's indictment unpack the latest gagging order, on-chain markets haven't skipped a beat - as TRUMP2024 blasts up +1,000% in sensational move for Presidential meme coin.

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has removed over-the-top (OTT) players, or apps, from the definition of telecommunication services in the Telecom Bill, giving huge relief to communication service providers such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, which will thus remain out of telecom regulation. The DoT believes the existing definition under Indian Telegraph Act is good enough and there is no need to specifically put OTT in the new Bill. «We (DoT) don't have any intent to regulate OTT.

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As on-chain market activity continues to drive sensational gains in crypto markets, Nothing Token ($THING) has emerged as one of the latest break-out tokens on the market with an impressive +1,000% run poising price structure for a second rally-leg.

Russia said it thwarted a coordinated Ukrainian attack on Crimea early on Sunday, while drones also targeted Moscow, disrupting air traffic in the capital, and caused a fire at an oil depot in the southwest of the country. Ukraine in recent days has launched a series of strikes on Russian military targets in occupied Crimea and the Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet's facilities, seeking to undermine Moscow's war efforts in the critical region. Attacks deep inside Russia, far from the front lines, have also increased, with Moscow's mayor saying at least two drones were shot down in the capital region early on Sunday. Reuters could not independently verify Sunday's reports and there were no immediate comment from Kyiv. In an opinion piece late on Saturday, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's Security Council, urged Kyiv's allies to speed up the delivery of weapons, saying this was the only way to end the war. «For example, the complete or partial elimination of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which is a doable task, should significantly accelerate the process of Russia's search for a way out of the ongoing war,» Danilov wrote on the Ukrainska Pravda news site. Russian air defence systems destroyed at least six drones targeting Crimea from different directions, Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday. The report on the Telegram messaging app did not say whether there was any damage or casualties in the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in a broadly condemned move in 2014, eight years before Moscow's full-fledged invasion. In the Moscow region, a drone was destroyed over the Istra district and another over the Ramensky district, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram, adding there were no casualties or

Russia shot down one Ukrainian drone over the outskirts of Moscow and six others over the annexed Crimean peninsula on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Defence. At around 1:45 am (2245 GMT on Saturday) one drone was intercepted over Moscow's Istrinsky district, the defence ministry said in a Telegram post. «According to preliminary data, there was no damage or casualties at the site where the debris fell,» Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote in a separate Telegram post. «Emergency services specialists are working at the scene.» Two Ukrainian drones were also destroyed at 1:15 am over the west coast of Crimea, with another four drones detected and destroyed over the peninsula between 1:45 to 2:20 am, according to the ministry. Since Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in early June, Russia has weathered waves of drone attacks that have sporadically damaged buildings, including in the capital. Russian officials have downplayed the significance of the attacks.

Crimea's Parliament- Vladimir Konstantinov said that nationalized properties will be sold soon and 8 auctions for the properties of Ukrainian business figures have already started. In a statement conveyed through the Telegram messaging application, Konstantinov revealed that the sales agreements reached a total value exceeding 815 million roubles, equivalent to $8.51 million.

Crypto security firm Certik has revealed that more than 40% of Telegram Bot tokens could be exit scams.

Ukraine said on Thursday it downed 17 out of 22 Russian drones attacking its territory overnight in the country's south, centre and north. «On the night of September 14, 2023, from 9 p.m.

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WhatsApp is gearing up to introduce a new feature that promises to reshape the way users connect and communicate across different messaging platforms. According to The Verge, this new development was unveiled in a recent WhatsApp for Android beta update (version 2.23.19.8).

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city's central districts, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine's Land Forces said that the country's air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged. «Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,» Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city's parks. Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city's military administration said. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, drone debris sparked a fire in an apartment, which was quickly extinguished. There were no immediate reports of injuries, Popko said on the Telegram messaging app. There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks.

According to an official statement on Pepe coin's Twitter account, the coin's Telegram group encountered a major security breach. The group's owner's old account was compromised, leading to the group's takeover. As a result, the group has been locked down, with efforts underway to regain access or potentially establish a new communication platform.