Welcome to Wall Street Insider, where we take you behind the scenes of the finance team's biggest scoops and deep dives from the past week. If you aren't yet a subscriber to Wall Street Insider, you can sign up here. Wall Street had to quickly adapt to a new work-from-home reality, and firms are already thinking about how the coronavirus will transform the way they work in the long run — Tradeweb's CEO called the shift to remote work a "fundamental game changer" when it comes to business and personnel impact. Banks have been forced to rewrite continuity plans, including testing and deploying remote-working capabilities to their vast trading ranks. Dakin Campbell and Alex Morrell talked to more than a dozen insiders about the exact steps firms have taken to replicate trading floors at home. Read the full story here: And as Casey Sullivan reports, top law firms are seeing a "great reset" that could reshape office needs and how they use tech to interact with clients. That's not to say everyone is looking to redefine business as usual — Dan DeFrancesco talked with NYSE's COO about how the exchange is thinking about its iconic trading floor. Wishing everyone a healthy and safe weekend. As always, my line is open at mmazzilli@businessinsider.com. -Meredith
'Hope for the best, but plan for the worst' CB Insights research pegged fintech funding for the first quarter at around $6 billion — the lowest quarterly total since 2017. Dan DeFrancesco asked backers including Bain Capital Ventures, Index Ventures, and Goldman Sachs what advice they have for startups as the coronavirus throws global economies and markets into turmoil. Read the full story here:
Project MBD ARGO Dakin Campbell gave a play-by-play on how Mount Sinai Health Systems secured a shipment of 130,000 N95 masks, with collaborators including senior Mount Sinai and Chinese healthcare execs, a senior partner at Goldman Sachs who serves as the chairman of the hospital chain, and a call to Warren Buffett. On the Goldman side, the project was code-named MBD ARGO — a reference to Goldman's merchant banking division as well as the 2012 film starring Ben Affleck. Read the full story here:
Top restructuring lawyers gear up As the novel coronavirus sweeps the globe, it will fall on a cadre of elite attorneys at the nation's top law firms to help guide companies through an unprecedented hit to revenue. Casey Sullivan talked with attorneys, consultants, and recruiters to identify 10 restructuring and bankruptcy lawyers to keep tabs on as the business landscape shifts dramatically in 2020. Read the full story here:
Hedge fund winners and losers March was a month of pain for investors in market-tracking index funds and sophisticated quant hedge funds alike, as a stock selloff knocked several hedge fund categories. Bradley Saacks rounded up the winners, losers, and those in between in the $3.3 trillion hedge fund industry. Read the full story here:
On the move Morgan Stanley hired a top trader away from Deutsche Bank in distressed credit— an area primed for a boom as corporate debt gets crushed. Deutsche Bank had tied with JPMorgan Chase for first place in credit-trading revenues in 2018, according to the most recent league table available from Coalition, and is home to one of the top distressed-debt houses on Wall Street.
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