华尔街投行有多少“亚洲面孔”？

华尔街投行有多少“亚洲面孔”？

美国顶级银行近年在亚洲聘用近12万人，这可能使其与承诺把就业岗位迁回美国的特朗普政府产生紧张。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

tension张力，拉力；紧张['tenʃ(ə)n]

benchmarking标杆管理；标记['bentʃ,mɑːkɪŋ]

combat反对；与…战斗['kɒmbæt; 'kʌm-]

offshore离岸的['ɒfʃɔː; ɒf'ʃɔː]

manual手工的；体力的['mænjʊ(ə)l]

More than one in 10 staff at US banks work in Asia（495 words）

By Laura Noonan in Dublin and Ben McLannahan in New York

Top American banks riding high on Donald Trump’s presidency have hired almost 120,000 people in low-cost Asian economies,creating potential tensions with the new administration,which has pledged to bring jobs back to the US.

Bank of America,Citigroup,JPMorgan Chase,Morgan Stanley,Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs employed 12 per cent of their total global workforce in Asian support centres in 2015 — the most recent data available. This compared with 10 per cent of overall jobs in 2013,according to figures compiled for the Financial Times by McLagan,a pay benchmarking company.

US banks have increasingly sought to cut costs and jobs at home to combat tougher regulation and sluggish revenue growth. David Warfield,associate partner at McLagan’s performance practice,said the banks were likely to continue adding staff outside the US,despite the Trump administration urging companies to invest more at home.

Mr Warfield said there was still demand from global banks to hire more staff in Asia,particularly for compliance functions that have become increasingly important following the financial crisis.

“Fifteen years ago,compliance roles would have been seen as essential to locate in the same building as the front office,”he said.

“Today,these activities have been separated into business support roles and more specialised roles. The specialist roles are being supported from alternative offshore locations.”

The number of banking staff working in offshore centres in Asia in compliance-related roles rose 18 per cent to 15,000 from 2013 to 2015,McLagan data show,while the numbers of Asian IT and operations jobs rose 6 per cent over the same period.

“For now,it’s a steady trend — increased headcount across control functions,compared to the IT and operations functions which are largely in place and stable,”said Mr Warfield.

That trend could be disrupted by policies outlined by Mr Trump,however,and in particular the review of financial sector regulations that Mr Warfield said could“lessen the demand for support staff in compliance and other control functions”.

“The big question will be technology and how that impacts on the more manual work [being done at service centres],”Mr Warfield said,adding that the automation and efficiency from technological advancement could reduce overall job numbers in offshore centres in the long term.

He added that banks’decisions about where to locate staff could become“less price-driven and more a function of reputation and specialist skillsets”. He said this would create the potential for countries and cities to become tech hubs,citing India and eastern Europe.

McLagan data show the investment bank divisions of Citi,JPMorgan,BofA and Morgan Stanley have almost 2,700 staff in eastern Europe,more than three times the numbers employed a decade ago.

But this is much less than the 12,650 staff employed by the investment banking divisions in India and the 22,000 across Asia.

Goldman,which is not included in the investment bank specific data,also has significant headcount in Asia,including about 5,000 staff in Bangalore.