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AXA is expanding in Singapore. Here’s who it wants to hire
AXA is expanding its digital team by about 30% in Singapore and is open to candidates from outside the insurance sector. Tomasz Kurczyk, head of digital for AXA in Singapore, explains who he wants to...
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Morning Coffee: How to perform terribly at Goldman Sachs and not be fired....
Isabelle Ealet probably wishes she never said it now. When asked by French magazine L’Expansion why she liked working for Goldman Sachs several years ago, Ealet said something about Goldman being a...
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Citadel has just hired a former SAC Capital Advisors partner who has been...
Citadel has continued its London hiring spree by bringing in a former partner at SAC Capital Advisors in the UK who has been running his own hedge fund for the past four years. Sam Elsokari, a senior...
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The best jobs at Tidjane Thiam’s Credit Suisse. And the worst
Firstly, some praise where praise is due. When Credit Suisse used last year’s investor day to explain its intention of simultaneously cutting costs and increasing revenues in its global markets...
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Goldman loses key technologist to Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Goldman Sachs is undergoing a retail banking revolution, so much so that CEO Lloyd Blankfein is getting in touch with consumer banking customers personally. Like any retail bank, technology is key to...
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28 year-old bankers with massive mortgages unfazed by this rate rise
£If anyone has a giant mortgage in London now, it’s the person six years or more into a career in banking. While other professions were forced to rent, vice president (VP) level bankers could still...
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UOB hires from DBS (again) for expanding team in Singapore
UOB has made its second senior structured finance hire from DBS in just the last four months. Alvin Wong has joined as a director in structured finance within UOB’s Singapore-based global financial...
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Credit Suisse’s Asian bankers now 25% more productive, but there are 60 fewer...
Credit Suisse’s private bankers are managing more money in Asia, even as the firm’s headcount of relationship managers dips. The number of RMs employed by Credit Suisse in Asia Pacific fell 9% – from...
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Morning Coffee: How you feel about other people after 25 years at a $50bn...
Billionaire Robert Mercer, a huge financial backer of many conservative causes and a patron of the former White House adviser Steve Bannon and Breitbart News, sent a letter to investors and pension...
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Want a job in high frequency trading? Here are the pay and job prospects at...
Maybe now is not the time to work in high frequency trading (HFT). Low market volatility has crippled some larger players, while larger rivals have swooped in for their struggling competitors. Virtu’s...
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Ex-Goldman Sachs trading head: salespeople are still stuffed
Are charismatic salespeople really immune to the algorithmic apocalypse? While some people claim the endurance of individuals with strong client relationships at banks in the future, one ex-very senior...
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My finance career has made a massive difference to the lives of my parents
You won’t hear this said very often, but when you work in finance it’s not just about you. This is such a demanding career, that it’s partly about having a spouse who’s committed to you working in...
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HSBC has just hired the man keeping Deutsche Bank traders in check
HSBC has hired the man in charge of employee conduct risk at Deutsche Bank at a time when closer scrutiny is being paid to the behaviour of the UK bank’s traders. Toby Billington, who has spent the...
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Rokos Capital Management has hired another big-hitting trader in London
Rokos Capital Management, the $6.8bn hedge fund set up by former Brevan Howard star trader Chris Rokos, has continued its recent hiring spree by taking on another former Goldman Sachs trader. Michael...
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Every single question you’re likely to be asked at a J.P. Morgan interview
You have a job interview with J.P. Morgan. Congratulations – or not. Needless to say, having a job interview is not the same as having a job, and J.P. Morgan’s interviews are far from easy. Before you...
View ArticleUBS wants banker to help Asian billionaires buy private jets
As banks compete to win business from Asia’s expanding billionaire population, an increasing number of niche jobs are opening up to service the so-called “ultra” wealthy. UBS is a case in point. As...
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“I work for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong but I wouldn’t mind joining a Chinese...
Goldman Sachs does not feature in the top-10 firms for Asia ex-Japan investment banking revenues so far this year, but Hong Kong graduates are still clamouring to get into the US bank. What’s life...
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Morning Coffee: Drinking beer, eating meat, watching football: keys to...
Do you need to be “one of the lads” to get ahead in financial services? A woman who spent five years working in fund management claims this was what she was told. Erika Wesson began working at...
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Eastern European ex-Citi VP wants £2.75m for race discrimination claim
Georgi Mechkarov is a man on a mission. That mission has been going on for two years and nine months and is due to culminate this time next week in an East London employment tribunal, where Mechkarov...
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Point72 Asset Management is looking for “rogue nerds”, expanding its junior...
Steve Cohen’s family office Point72 Asset Management is on the hunt for “rogue nerds” and has stepped up the search for talent by scouring the junior ranks of investment banks and top hedge funds as it...
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