Even Bankers Have to Listen to Their Inner Human
A few years ago the world might have moved on after Standard Chartered Plc boss Bill Winters referred to job cuts as replacing “lower value, human capital” with “financial” and...
By Chris Hughes · Bloomberg
A few years ago the world might have moved on after Standard Chartered Plc boss Bill Winters referred to job cuts as replacing “lower value, human capital” with “financial” and “investment capital” through technology. But it’s 2026 and everyone is obsessed with the impact of artificial intelligence on white-collar workers. Winters’ remarks risk overshadowing everything positive he wanted to say about the bank at an investor update on Tuesday. Worse, they may follow him around for a while.