Financial News looks at six banks that have weathered the financial storm better than their rivals and assesses their potential for hiring top talent going forward.

Barclays Capital Big hires: Mark Warham from Morgan Stanley and Matthew Ponsonby from Citigroup (now: co-heads of M&A); Sam Dean from Deutsche Bank (now: co-head of global ECM) Outlook: likely to remain the most aggressive hirer Summary: Barclays has gone to great lengths to avoid taking government money, at least partly to give it the flexibility to compensate its staff