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Morning Coffee: J.P. Morgan’s employee love-in. Will IPOs ever recover?
If you work at J.P. Morgan, then you should know that chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon and Daniel Pinto, who heads up the corporate and investment banking (CIB) division, appreciate you and all that you do...
View Article25 questions to ask at contemporary banking interviews, by J.P. Morgan
As we reported earlier this week, banks are still doing a lot of interviewing, they’re just not doing a huge amount of hiring on the back of those interviews. So, how can you impress banking...
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The top 35 MBAs for getting a job in investment banking
It’s no secret that the love affair between MBAs and investment banks is on rocky grounds. There’s a debate about who dumped who, but fewer MBAs are choosing to go into investment banking and...
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Are J.P. Morgan’s junior bankers happier than Goldman Sachs’?
J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs have much in common. Both are indisputably tier one investment banks. Both attract interest from impressively credentialled students. Both have made efforts to improve the...
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Want to leave the Big Four for a bank in Singapore? This is where to send...
Have you racked up some experience at a Big Four firm in Singapore? Do you now want to put your skills to use in an audit, product control or even risk/compliance team at a global bank in the city...
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How to break into the hottest sector in Asian finance with no prior experience
Working in Asian private banking comes with its share of downsides. Compliance pressures are growing, weaker players are bailing out of the industry and compensation remains lower than in investment...
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Morning Coffee: Hundreds of thousands of London banking jobs could go. The...
If you work in the City of London, or indeed hold a finance job in the UK, news emerging this weekend is likely to be keeping you up at night. Firstly, there’s the prospect of the UK losing the right...
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These senior investment bankers have just quit for industry jobs
Senior bankers and equity researchers in both London and New York are still leaving the industry to take up supposedly more secure roles in industry. One example is James Collins, who until earlier...
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Goldman Sachs is hiring someone in Warsaw to help cut jobs in London
Headcount at Goldman Sachs International – Goldman Sachs’ London-based business – has never been higher. Thanks to Brexit and offshoring, this may yet change. The firm is currently looking for someone...
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“Investment banking has been slowly dying since 2008. Pay has to shrink”
Investment banking as we know it is slowly dying. The combination of very low interest rates and an onslaught of regulations has killed the traditional model that worked so well until 2008. EU...
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Credit Suisse London bankers braced for new round of redundancies
Another round of redundancies is said to be on its way at Credit Suisse. Senior headhunters say staff at Credit Suisse’s London investment bank are being informed this week – possibly today – about a...
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The big unspoken problem at Deutsche Bank
Would you join Deutsche Bank now? We’re just asking in light of the German bank’s share price, which is down 53% this year and now stands at lows last seen in the mid-1980s. Headhunters point out that...
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Three networking mistakes that even experienced bankers make
Autumn is abundant with networking events for financial services professionals. You can expand your network, reconnect with colleagues and deliver your personal message, as well as that of your firm....
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Chinese firms to “swoop” on senior Goldman bankers axed in big Asian cull
Goldman Sachs has been pondering Asian job cuts for several months – back in June we predicted that more lay-offs were coming in the second half of 2016. Now they’ve arrived – but the size of the cull...
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The top-20 Masters in Finance for landing a Hong Kong banking job
The Masters in Finance (MIF) qualification is slowly starting to gain traction in Hong Kong – a city where banking professionals have traditionally preferred taking MBAs. But where should you study if...
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Transforming Wall Street: Calypso’s Bank-in-a-Box streamlines capital markets...
When creating a new technology product, the team usually has to develop a roadmap and decide what features to include. When Alex Goldvug was kicking off Calypso’s Bank-in-a-Box product, the challenge...
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Morning Coffee: This may be the end of Deutsche Bank as you know it. The...
Deutsche Bank is not what it was. It’s not just the 30 year low in the share price. It’s not just the new market cap way (way) below organizations that would once have been considered its inferior. Nor...
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Credit Suisse’s chart explaining why 25 year-olds are a false economy
Credit Suisse is busy cutting costs. The Swiss bank is embarking upon a whole new round of London redundancies this week. In a presentation today, Credit Suisse chief executive Tidjane Thiam,...
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Junior bankers haven’t had a pay rise for a whole decade
Everyone knows that junior bankers – analysts in investment banking parlance – earn a lot. Where else will you get paid £66k in your first year out of university and six figures (sterling) two years...
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The newly hired Goldman banker who’s been quietly donating to Trump
Chendi Ni is a quantitative strategist within Goldman Sachs’ strats group who started his investment banking career in July last year. He is also one of only two Goldman Sachs’ employees to nail his...
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