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There's disagreement over the most fundamental of issues: when the European trades at MF Global actually began.

When the former risk chiefs of MF Global testify at a congressional hearing, they are expected to defend their tenure under Chief Executive Jon S. Corzine. What will be less apparent will be the contrasting management styles of the two men.

Sometime around 2006, when Facebook Inc. was little more than a collection of T-shirt-clad 20-somethings in a sparsely populated office, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. private-client adviser Divesh Makan showed up to add a dash of formality. Facebook execs Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are now his clients.

Michael Roseman warned Chief Executive Jon Corzine and the board about trades in European sovereign debt in the fall of 2010, according to testimony he is expected to supply Congress on Thursday.

Sir Fred Goodwin may now be just plain Mister Fred Goodwin. But while his successor, Stephen Hester, has been forced to give up his bonus again, Goodwin at least has his money to console himself.

The chief risk officer at the time of MF Global's collapse will tell a congressional committee he sounded concerns about the firm's European sovereign debt trades in July 2011, three months before the firm declared bankruptcy.

It's probably a safe bet that most of us have used our work phones or computers for non-work-related business. If you knew your employer tracked your every electronic move, would you still want to work there?

What Would You Do?

Answer the question and see how you match up with the rest of the FINS community.

You've just been offered your dream job, but... your management monitors your time in front of your computer.

Sign...or...Decline

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Wall Street's pay crunch is squeezing some wallets harder than others.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. disclosed Friday that Chief Executive James Dimon received a 2011 stock bonus valued at $17 million. That's the same as his 2010 award, despite a record profit last year at the New York company.

Investigators on the hunt for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money are zeroing in on the securities firm's back-office operations in Chicago.

Constant turnover at the top can be distressing, but is it problematic enough to turn down a job? In FINS' informal Sign or Decline survey, 36% of 691 respondents said they'd turn down their dream job if their new manager had been replaced three times.

What Would You Do?

Answer the question and see how you match up with the rest of the FINS community.

You've just been offered your dream job, but... your boss has been replaced three times.

Sign...or...Decline