InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Banks eye layoffs as short-term crisis ends, long-term costs emerge By financialnews_rlv83x - August 28, 2020 0 120 At the height of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, the heads of U.S. banks including Morgan Stanley , Bank of America Corp and others pledged not to cut any jobs in 2020 because it was the wrong thing to do.