Before a former UBS Group AG compliance officer was charged with insider trading, she was in a position many bankers would envy: she had a job offer from Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
In early 2013, Goldman Sachs recruited Fabiana Abdel-Malek for a compliance officer post in its fixed-income business in London. She was unsure whether to stay in UBS’s “more friendly” environment or to challenge herself at a “more hungry” Goldman and spoke about it with her friends, family and a priest at her church.
