About BankersBall
BankersBall is the numero uno online destination for investment bankers, financiers, and other high-powered professionals. Bballe, as we call it ’round the office, is where bankers come to party and where cash lives.
Bankers Ball FAQ
Q: Can I read this when I’m bored at work for hours upon hours?
A: Sure!
Q: Are you guys bankers?
A: Mebbe. Mebbe not.
Q: Is this site just for New Yorkers?
A: Well, we are in New York, and so are a lot of bankers and other young, urban professional types, but bankers worldwide love our site. We’d be happy to include region-specific content, so send along your suggestions at editor at bankersball dot com.
Q: Who actually reads your site?
A: A short list: investment bankers, bitter and still unresolved ex-i bankers and i-banker wannabes; people in equity research; private equity, hedge funds and venture capital; some in sales & trading, fixed income, commodities, F/X; strategy & management consultants; MBA students; soon to be MBA students and other b-school types; asset managers; brokers; private and HNW bankers; all sorts of people on The Street; economists; a certain U.N. man; high-powered financiers & their “people” in Russia; finance-obsessed journos; self described “outsiders looking in” (a.k.a. “budget analysts, etc. at non-financial publicly traded companies); lawyers and lawyer-types and last but not least, girls looking to “bag a banker,” and girls who have already bagged a banker (also ex’s of bankers). If you don’t fit into any of these categories, email us at editor at bankersball dot com and we’ll add you.
Q: Who are these “anonymous” bankers you guys quote in your articles?
A: Rest assured that these are real people, but their identities are and will always be 100% protected.
Q: I’m an undergraduate at _____ and I’m not in banking, but I want to get a job in banking. Can you guys help?
A: We’re not a placement agency, but feel free to check out resources on our website and Sidetawk, our forum. We also plan on hosting networking events and parties in the future, so check back.
Q: What is Sidetawk and how do I Side … tawk?
A: Sidetawk is a free-for-all forum provided by BankersBall, also known as the #1 online destination for bankers, where bankers come to party, where cash lives, paper town, etc etc. We aim to be THE source for urban banking professionals to network, gossip and one-up each other. Anyone can read the forum without registering, but if you want to post, you have to register — it only takes a second.
Q: I’m interested in advertising on your site. Who can I talk to?
A: Check out our advertisers page and write us at ads at bankersball dot com.
Q: I have a great idea for a story. Where can I send it?
A: Feel free to send comments or story ideas to: editor at bankersball dot com. Don’t worry, your name will be kept strictly confidential, unless you actually want a byline.
Q: Are you bored?
A: Take our user survey to help us get a better idea of who you are.
Press on BBalle
BankersBall is not just where bankers go to partay. It’s also a blog (although we’re not, btw) that eats the crumbs of the crumbs. Read more…
- Bloomberg, May 25, 2006: BankersBall, started in October with the tagline ‘Where Bankers Come to Party,’ has sections including ‘the Natty Banker,’ with tips on Manhattan suit sales, and ‘Ask the Ex- Working Girl,’ with advice on ‘love and banking.’ It also offers shortcuts for using Microsoft Corp.’s Excel software, the junior banker’s primary tool for financial models.Last week, BankersBall offered a list of the average salaries of first-, second- and third-year associates at private-equity firms. (First-year salary plus bonus: $172,000).”
- The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2006: “Still, blogs such as … BankersBall … are increasingly competing for eyeballs with more traditional media that dispense news and gossip, such as The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor and TheStreet.com. If the traders and the investment bankers get rich collecting ‘little golden crumbs’ that fall off other people’s cakes, as Tom Wolfe wrote in The Bonfire of the Vanities, the blogsters are eating crumbs of the crumbs.”
- Manhattan User’s Guide, June 2, 2006: “A digital water cooler for investment bankers and their ilk, written anonymously, with an insider’s edge.”
- Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2006: “Blogger BankersBall said ‘the prestigious speaker failed to captivate,’ noting that one attendee said it seemed as if Mr. Paulson prepared his whole speech on the flight.”
- Amarillo Business Journal, August 1, 2006: “So it’s pretty hot outside. How hot is it? Hot enough to affect even tony Wall Street bankers, to judge from the blog BankersBall”
- This Is London (from the Evening Standard), October 18, 2006: Even more amusing than AJ’s video are the scornful responses from bankers on the BankersBall website. Not at AJ’s ridiculously conspicuous consumption, but at his obvious poverty.
- New York Sun, October 20, 2006: “On one side of the fence, anonymous bloggers on the Wall Street-themed Web site Bankersball.com have called A.J. a guy who ‘clearly got beat up in high school’ and ‘makes us look bad,’ while others have commended A.J., saying he ‘kinda adds to the Wall Street mystique.’ One infatuated female blogger wrote that she is in love with the big spender.’”
- Financial Times’ Alphaville, November 15, 2006: “BankersBall reports that Greenhill prefers to dispense with the cloak and dagger secrecy and Chinese whispers that generally surround bonus time.”
- Times Online, November 23, 2006: “Want to earn mega-bucks in Manhattan? You could triple your current earnings by acquiring seven simple skills, according to the investment bankers’ website bankersball.com.
- NYPost, January 1, 2007: “The Bankers Gone Wild Award: We couldn’t decide whether to be amused or annoyed by BankersBall.com, but the fact that i-bankers make such ridiculous amounts of money tipped the scale toward “annoyed.” This site, hugely popular among the i-banking crowd, is a mix of boring, smug and funny, with more than a dash of finance-guy arrogance. With articles like “Reasons Not to Get Married” (”1. Your new wife will get fat. 2. Your new wife will quit her p.r./HR/advertising/publishing job to stay at home. 3. Your new wife, because she will be staying at home, will want to start having kids.”), it’s pretty much exactly what we expected from the dress-shirt crowd.”
Keep em coming!
