Charles Schwab eliminated more jobs at TD Ameritrade on Monday, including at least another two of its executives, as part of the ongoing integration of the two firms, according to an industry source.
The cuts included George Tamer, managing director of TD Ameritrade Institutional sales and Matt Judge, director of RIA Strategic Relationship Management at TD Ameritrade Institutional, the source, who requested anonymity because the cuts were not yet announced, told ThinkAdvisor. Tamer and Judge will remain with the firm until October, the source said.
Also eliminated were nearly every remaining human resources associate, at both TD Ameritrade Institutional and its retail business, the source said, adding it was possible at least some Schwab jobs were cut also but "most were likely TDA."
"No one seems to know the exact number" of cuts that were made on Monday, "but it sounds like this is probably the second largest round of layoffs since the first one in October which included 100s of branch associates," the source told ThinkAdvisor in a LinkedIn message. "It's got to be well over 1,000 by now."
Schwab declined to say how many jobs were cut. "We have not disclosed numbers and we don't comment on employees," Schwab spokeswoman Mayura Hooper told ThinkAdvisor on Tuesday.
"As we've stated previously, achieving our goals for the integration of Schwab and TD Ameritrade requires difficult but necessary organizational changes designed to create the strongest firm possible for our clients," she explained. "Our actions primarily address overlapping and duplicative roles and have little to no impact on client servicing roles."
