Citi Sees the Days of Traders Slamming Phones Coming to an End
- Banks changing the culture of trading desks as they diversify
- Still, share of women in trading remains stubbornly low
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The days of traders slamming phones and breaking computers are becoming a thing of the past.
Such behavior was a frequent sight when Citigroup Inc.’s Deirdre Dunn got her start on Wall Street two decades ago. One colleague even kept a mini baseball bat in his desk to hammer his phone back together. Now, with banks desperate to attract diverse candidates to their hallowed trading floors, there’s far less tolerance for that kind of hard-charging attitude, she said.