With a number of firms currently reviewing headcount, the fear factor is back and financial markets professionals are wondering just how safe they are in the event of downsizing at their firms.

When we found out that ING Direct USA President and chairman Arkadi Kuhlmann puts himself up for a vote by employees each year to see if they think that he should remain in his post, we wondered what approval rating employees at some of the biggest firms in the financial markets industry would give their bosses.

Here's Ivana Takital's complete list of financial markets firms in terms of how likely they are to provide single females with their perfect partner.

The Wall Street Journal has just published a list of the highest-paid CEOs in the US over the last decade, and that got us thinking.

Here's something sent in by one of our readers.

We wanted to find out who our readers thought is the most overpaid person in the world.

The early part of every year - after bonuses have been paid out - is usually when firms start to really beef up their payrolls (provided the outlook for the economy justifies it).