Top 20 rainmakers – Blackstone’s Bumble boost- Wall Street’s talent war

Top 20 rainmakers – Blackstone’s Bumble boost- Wall Street’s talent war

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The Rainmakers: Here are the top 20 dealmakers who put together the biggest mergers and acquisitions of 2020

While M&A had a down year during the pandemic, bankers still orchestrated a number of megadeals.

Insider partnered with the financial-data platform MergerLinks to identify 2020's top 20 bankers. The ranking is based on lead investment bankers who arranged the largest M&A deals in North America.

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Applications for Wall Street summer internships in 2022 are already opening. Here's why the talent war for undergrads is starting earlier and earlier.

The timeline to nab a summer internship on Wall Street can start as early as two years beforehand. Banks like RBC Capital Markets and BMO Capital Markets are among the first to open applications for summer analyst positions.

Insiders explained how competition among firms is accelerating the start of the process.

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Here's how private-equity giant Blackstone transformed Bumble, the dating app targeting a valuation of more than $7