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This boutique bank wants to hire you in Asia next year
Another boutique private bank is likely to increase its hiring in Asia next year: Pictet. Following the surprise appointment of Boris Collardi as its co-head of global wealth management last week,...
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Morning Coffee: The intense work schedule of one of the top men in finance....
Have you heard that you won’t have to work as many hours if you move from the sell side to the buy side? How about that as you climb the financial services ladder and take on loftier job titles, your...
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Senior bank trader quits for BlueCrest, lasts eight months and then...
The former head of European index and equity products trading at Commerzbank in London, who quit in November last year to join BlueCrest Capital Management as a partner, lasted just eight months at the...
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Goldman London bankers queuing up for new jobs in Milan
Do continental European bankers in London really want to work in the “City,” or were they only ever in London for lack of alternatives? As the opportunity to work back home becomes available, London’s...
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Deutsche Bank’s derivatives sales chief departs for BNY Mellon
A senior Deutsche Bank salesman, who has spent the past nine years in roles across Hong Kong and London, has just signed up to BNY Mellon in a big role straddling Europe and Asia. Harvey Twomey, who...
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Steve Cohen poached a top quant from Goldman Sachs before bonus time
Cubist Systematic Strategies, the computer-driven trading business of Steve Cohen’s Point72 family office is hiring slowwwwly. In the past year, headcount has risen by around 12% to over 125 people,...
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Credit Suisse’s guide to all the different jobs in equities and credit trading
If you’re a student who’s thinking of working in a markets job in an investment bank, you can be forgiven for feeling confused about your options. Firstly, do you want to work in equities or fixed...
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Goldman Sachs makes “surprising” senior hire in Singapore
An experienced corporate sales professional has left Societe Generale in Singapore for Goldman Sachs, in a rare year-end senior hire. Desmond Hu joined Goldman’s corporate sales team as an executive...
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Six of the most popular career changes in Asian banking
The job market in Asian banking has been tight this year, with more layoffs in the front-office and more offshoring in the back-office. As a result, recruiters in Singapore and Hong Kong have noticed...
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Goldman Sachs is hiring 250-300 mostly local people in Warsaw
Goldman Sachs intends to add 250 to 300 people in Poland – a 50% to 60% increase on current staffing levels in its Warsaw hub. The news is due to be announced today at an event for local Polish...
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Morning Coffee: Lessons from the man with an amazing finance career and...
If you want an exceptional finance career that does not squat like a Larkinesque toad across your whole life, you will need a containment strategy. The man with the best containment strategy yet is...
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Asset managers driving down bonus costs by hiking up pay for cheap juniors
Asset managers are prioritising pay hikes for tech-savvy junior employees in a bid to push down overall compensation costs as they prepare for a new era of Big Data and quantitative finance amid...
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Deutsche’s head of eFX sales has just landed at Goldman Sachs
The game of musical chairs between Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank continues – and this time Goldman has done the poaching. It’s continued its recent habit of parachuting in senior sales staff to...
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Meet the expansionary German VC fund hiring junior bankers in London
Forget London, if you work in private equity in Europe today, Munich is increasingly seen as the place to be. The only trouble is that Munich private equity funds typically only employ native German...
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When angry bankers abuse powerless support staff
To begin with. I was shocked. Totally amazed. When I started in banking, I couldn’t understand how the hell my colleagues got away with treating the back office the way they did. I’d never seen...
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Hong Kong banks in successful new hiring spree
Compliance hiring at banks in Hong Kong is not what it once was. As we reported in September, recruitment rates in the function have fallen by about 25% in just two years as contracts run out, banks...
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Four things you should know about APAC banking jobs right now
How did your job function perform in 2017? Data provider Coalition has some answers for the Asia Pacific region. As the year draws to a close, it has just published a summary of investment banking and...
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Morning Coffee: Top dealmaker identifies junior bankers’ worst problem and...
The worst thing about working on the buy side is that you have to compete heavily to get into an elite hedge fund or private equity firm, and then once you’re in, you must spend years and years working...
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The dark art of the aggressive banking interview question
When you’re interviewing with an investment bank, you should never go in expecting your interviewers to be gentle. Banking interviews are not about being nice. In a situation where you’re already...
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This J.P. Morgan associate has just quit to become the only employee of a new...
Junior bankers and traders are increasingly leaving large financial institutions to get in on the ground at start-up private equity companies or new hedge funds. The latest to make the leap into a...
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