Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan has been doing a Vikram Pandit - sending 'inspirational' memos to his staff.

Here's 7 interesting facts about headhunters and headhunting.

Former NJ Gov​. Jon Corzine is expected to be in Manhattan federal court as soon as next week to testify in the upcoming trial of MF Global, the commodity brokerage firm he headed before its spectacular collapse crushed his once illustrious career.

Fidelity Investments has agreed to pay $8m to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that several of its brokers received $1.6m in gifts over a period of years from clients who were allegedly hoping to do more business with the firm.

We're trying to find out who's got the longest job title in the financial markets.

In 1844, 23-year-old Henry Lehman, the son of a cattle merchant, emigrated to the United States from the town of Rimpar, in the German state of Bavaria. He settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where he opened a dry goods store, 'H. Lehman'. In 1847, following the arrival of Emanuel Lehman, the Firm became 'H. Lehman and Bro'. With the arrival of their youngest brother, Mayer Lehman, in 1850, the Firm changed its name again and 'Lehman Brothers' was founded.

We thought it would be interesting to republish something we first posted a few years ago about the impact of not making the grade at Partner Managing Director level over at Goldman Sachs.

Many of you will already have had one of these from your firm. If you haven't, expect something similar sometime soon.

Here's a trip down memory lane. The text of a memo sent to investment banking support staff over at DLJ in 1994.