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How to get a graduate risk management job in Singapore or Hong Kong
The employment market for experienced risk management professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong remains comparatively buoyant. But for graduates, clinching a junior risk job is far from straightforward....
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Eight Hong Kong bankers who quit finance for Alibaba
Alibaba, China’s e-commerce behemoth, has a thing for hiring bankers into senior leadership roles. It appointed 20-year Goldman veteran Michael Evans as its president in 2015, and a year later named...
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Morning Coffee: The new top landing spot for failed quant traders. How to...
The technologies revolutionizing Wall Street have left traders and Washington regulators alike playing a perpetual game of catch up. In the current age of algorithmic trading, even those who can’t...
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BAML’s chairman of FIG investment banking has departed
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s chairman of European financial institutions investment banking has stepped down after more than 17 years at the bank. Henrietta Baldock, chair of BAML’s FIG investment...
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New boutique started by Goldman Sachs partner has been busy hiring junior and...
Ardea Partners, the new boutique bank launched in July last year by Goldman Sachs’ co-chairman of investment banking, Chris Cole, has been hiring from his former employer and other investment banks as...
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Here’s what Moelis, Perella Weinberg, Evercore and Houlihan Lokey pay in the...
Big investment banks have been cutting cutting pay, so it’s worth keeping tabs on what boutique investment banks are offering in terms of salaries and bonuses. The trend of elite boutique investment...
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13 ways you can blitz a job interview in Asian private banking
Private bankers are in high demand in Asia, where millionaire and billionaire wealth is surging. But relationship managers in Singapore and Hong Kong still face a gruelling interview process in a...
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DBS has just made a major hire from Citi in Singapore
DBS has appointed Ram Jayaraman as head of digital technology transformation. Jayaraman joined DBS earlier this month after 10 years at Citi in Singapore. He was latterly digital technology delivery...
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Morning Coffee: Meet the man who would be the next James Gorman. The #MeToo...
During the analyst call for the Goldman Sachs’ Q3 results, people couldn’t stop asking about its hiring plans. Is it because of MiFID II? Are you just hiring sales people? How are you going to hire all...
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Standard Chartered has just made another big fixed income hire in London
Standard Chartered has continued its recent fixed income sales hiring spree, and has just brought in Michael Agridhiotis as its new head of central bank sales, based in London. Agridhiotis has worked...
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“I was an outsider who made MD at Citigroup before quitting for fintech. This...
I spent 13 years in an investment bank, but never totally felt like a banker. I didn’t come through the usual graduate recruitment programme, or join an associate after an MBA, but instead switched...
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Six ways the CFA exams are about to change
The CFA exams are changing for 2018, and it’s not just an increasing focus on financial technology. In fact, there are nuanced adjustments to the questions related to asset allocation, fixed income,...
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The 25 best-paying hedge funds in the UK
The vast majority of large UK hedge funds have slashed pay for their rank-and-file employees, while many have protected the remuneration of their most senior staff after many struggled to replicate...
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Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan or Morgan Stanley – which has the best internship?
By and large, if you want to work for a large investment bank, you must complete a summer internship first. Now is the time to be polishing up an application in time for the 2018 intake. As well as...
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My surefire five-step guide to career success in Asian banking, by ex-MD Eric...
You can’t forge a successful career as an investment banker solely based on your technical ability – that’s what I’m trying to get across to the next generation of finance professionals. I worked as a...
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How to make the cut at Citigroup in the U.S.
Citi’s most recent investment banking analyst class were a select group – just 2% of all applicants were hired by the bank in the U.S. The investment bank’s incoming class is composed of approximately...
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Moelis & Co is hiring senior bankers. Its Q3 results show why
Moelis & Co has been hiring, and now it’s clear to see why. It’s just produced its Q3 results, and posted 26% year on year revenue gains (and is up 13% for the first nine months), largely thanks to...
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20-something Singapore bankers now far too frightened to move firms
If you’re an experienced private banker in Singapore with a bountiful book of loyal clients, you may well be contemplating changing employers in the near future. With so many private banks in the...
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Working for BEA and Hang Seng: bankers in Hong Kong reveal what it’s really like
Bank of East Asia and Hang Seng Bank are among the most prolific recruiters in Hong Kong financial services. But what’s it like to work for Hong Kong’s two homegrown banks? We spoke to four...
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Morning Coffee: Top equity trader’s disgusting career epiphany. The City’s...
Murray Roos is a big name in equities trading. As co-head of equities at Citigroup, he’s overseen an expansion of the division that resulted in various senior management shake-ups and a near constant...
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