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My career path from HFT cop to investment banker to hedge fund PM to data...
John Collins had a baptism by fire when he started out in finance. As an investigator for NYSE Euronext tracking tick data for suspicious trading, he was working at the exchange in 2007 when the...
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Hong Kong headhunters berate banks: “Mandarin shouldn’t always be mandatory”
Global banks in Hong Kong have been increasing their recruitment of Mandarin speakers for at least five years and the range of roles requesting them continues to expand. But although most vacancies...
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Morning Coffee: Banker broke the law for love and money. The danger of...
If a banker keeps passing handwritten notes to his girlfriend, but they’re all addressed to her father, then you know something’s not quite right. Rather than flirty banter or expressions of love, a...
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Top BAML FX trader turned risk officer at Citadel has now quit
The former head of foreign exchange trading for central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) FX trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who quit trading and banking to take a risk...
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Deutsche Bank’s EMEA investment banking chief also runs a hip arts centre
Alasdair Warren, the head of Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment bank in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has a big job reviving the fortunes of the German giant, but he still has time...
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Questions to ask recruiters to convert an asset management interview into a job
It’s a universal signal. When the interviewer asks “Do you have any questions for me?” they’re ready to wrap up. Most candidates simply say, “No, I think we’ve pretty much covered everything,” or...
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UBS’s head of investment bank strategy has jumped to BlackRock
BlackRock has poached a managing director at UBS’s investment bank to lead strategy for its exchange traded funds (ETFs) business. Sohee Park, who was global head of strategy for UBS’s investment bank...
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Evercore has hired a senior investment banker from Standard Chartered in...
Evercore has hired a senior Standard Chartered banker in Singapore as it continues to build its business there. Samaresh Singh joined the advisory boutique earlier this month as a managing director in...
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Techies don’t always want to work in Hong Kong banking. Here’s why they should
Employers in the finance sector in Hong Kong increasingly need to hire more technologists. But getting the right tech talent on board is far from straightforward. This year financial institutions in...
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Morning Coffee: The partying 25-year-old college dropout making millions....
If you’re inspired by “vest and rest” millionaires – 30-something tech entrepreneurs who have sold their firm to Facebook or Google and are creaming the profits working six-hour days – there is another...
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Goldman Sachs is doing some big hiring in equities algo trading
Goldman Sachs is building out its algorithmic trading business. As the Financial Times reported last week, the firm has trebled the number of corporate bonds trading on its algorithmic platform to...
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This growing U.S. hedge fund has hired from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley...
Balyasny Asset Management, the Chicago-based firm aiming to become the “Amazon of hedge funds”, has continued to build out its London operation and is still poaching from investment banks. The hedge...
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Meet the former credit trader who quit the City to bring the fight to brain...
Greg Jarzabek had been handed a new job building a credit trading desk from scratch at an investment bank in the City when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2011. She was...
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I’m an equity researcher. Someone asked me to work for free
You know when the job you’re doing in financial services is falling out of fashion – people around you start disappearing, you’re paid less, the head of your department stops doing deep throaty laughs...
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Student from questionable video interview gets job at Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is doing video interviews. You should know this because we’ve written a lot about Hirevue, the digital interviewing system Goldman uses to sift its junior candidates. But what if, before...
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I hustled to a banking job at the height of the crisis, but I was always...
Even though Derrick Fung says he gave investment banking his all – not even the financial crisis could prevent him from landing an analyst position – he knew all along that, when the time was right,...
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These six senior bankers left global firms to join BOCI in Hong Kong
Large Chinese banks have traditionally grown their own talent and found it difficult to lure senior bankers away from US and European institutions. But this is now changing, at least in Hong Kong, as...
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UOB has hired a DBS veteran for a senior director role in Singapore
UOB has hired one of Singapore’s most experienced structured finance specialists from rival DBS. Simon Tan has joined UOB as a senior director and head of structured finance in its global financial...
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Morning Coffee: Jes Staley’s latest novel method of cutting costs at...
Barclays’ CEO Jes Staley is the master when it comes to cost cutting. This is the man who managed to trim headcount at Barclays’ investment bank by 6,000 people in the space of four months simply by...
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Goldman Sachs re-hires senior quant after four years at a hedge fund
Call it a novel way of making it to managing director, or part of the broader trend of traders quitting hedge funds for investment banks, but Goldman Sachs has just re-hired a top quant who has spent...
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