Financial Giants Set Up Tech Hubs In Manhattan

While companies like Google having a well-known reputation for innovation and unique company culture, amenities such as multicolored lego blocks in the conference room and ping pong tables are no longer limited to hip new technology start-ups. MasterCard is just one of several big-name financial services setting up tech divisions in prime Manhattan real estate. The thinking of the company officials is that "a vibrant tech center in a hip urban neighborhood withe edgy tech firms allows them to quickly tap into new ideas and to hire from one of the country's richest talent pools." With push-up competitions and rowdy ping-pong matches, MasterCard is challenging the stiff Wall Street culture which has dominated the finance industry, making such a place very attractive to be an employee for young people such as myself.

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