The financial industry prepares itself for coronavirus pandemic
Working from home, keeping employees at a distance from each other, forgoing conferences and business travel — the list goes on
27 February 2020 - 12:03
London/Hong KongNew York — It sounds like advice for averting Wall Street deals: Don’t travel. Don’t meet clients. Don’t even shake hands.
Yet those instructions are now flowing through the global financial industry as the coronavirus spreads. On a growing number of continents, banking and investing professionals are preparing for the possibility that they will soon be working from home. Industry conferences for drumming up business are thinning out, moving online or facing cancellation. Sales of some new securities are sputtering...
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