Insider finance: Jamie Dimon predicts maskless October

: Traders in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) fill orders shortly before the close of trading on October 28, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Good morning and welcome to Insider Finance. I'm Dan DeFrancesco, and here's what's on the agenda today:

• Two Sigma is getting into real-estate investing, and looking to a former WeWork executive for help.
• JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon predicts employees will be maskless in the office by October.
• Systematic trading firm Vatic just hired a former finance professor to launch a new quant strategy.

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon expects the bank's employees will back in the office 'within weeks' and going maskless by October

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon wants people back in-person, blaming partying, not the office, for getting people sick. Read more here.

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Two Sigma is getting into real-estate investing and has tapped a former WeWork executive to lead the charge

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Quant giant Two Sigma is launching a real-estate investing arm, Two Sigma Real Estate, and tapped former WeWork executive Rich Gomel to serve as its CIO. Click here to learn about its new plans.

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Systematic trading firm Vatic is launching a new quant strategy, and it's hired a former finance professor who worked at Citadel and D.E. Shaw to lead the charge

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Vatic Investments has hired former Citadel and D.E. Shaw quant Allen Poteshman as CIO. Read more about the systematic trading firm's plans.

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JPMorgan gets backlash from soccer fans after backing the much maligned European Super League

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JPMorgan is facing criticism for its decision to underwrite an initial investment into the controversial European Super League. Read more here.

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MUFG hires former Nomura fixed income strategist as it ramps up its leveraged finance unit in the US

George Goncalves joins as the head of US macro strategy

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MUFG has hired George Goncalves to lead its macro fixed income strategies in the US. Read more about the hire here.

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Credit Suisse's Prime Unit Risk Chief Had Been Archegos Salesman (Bloomberg)

Goldman Survey Finds Insurers With $13 Trillion Ready for Risk (Bloomberg)

Top JPMorgan Traders Talk Robots, Brexit Impact and Remote Work (Bloomberg)

A behind-the-scenes look at how Insider's Reed Alexander pivoted from child actor to Wall Street reporter (Insider)

Amazon to let Whole Foods shoppers pay with a swipe of their palm (Reuters)

As banks hire 100s of new juniors, students seem to be in luck (eFinancialCareers)

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