The Changing Landscape Of Wall Street: Fewer Bankers, Smaller Bonuses

"Lean times" might be an overstatement, but for the past four years payrolls have shrunk at the world's biggest banks, amid heightened regulatory standards and withering profits. New data from the British research firm Coalition Ltd., reported by the Wall Street Journal, show a 20 percent decline in the number of workers at the largest 10 banks in the world since 2010. The decline in the banks' employment from 2013 to 2014 was 4 percent.