China Herald: Why princelings are disappearing from the investment banks

Wei Gu

When the US financial authorities went after investment bank JPMorgan for hiring princelings in China - the sons and daughters of high officials - many in China scratched their heads. Hiring princelings was common practise, but is now reversing because of the changes in the banking business, WSJ's Wei Gu discovers in a discussion Tjun Tang of the Boston Consulting group.

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