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Nine big obstacles to getting a Hong Kong banking job in Q4
The fourth quarter starts tomorrow, and if you want a new banking job in Hong Kong over the next three months you will be up against a tough labour market. But what specific challenges will you face...
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This is where banks in Singapore are still hiring from overseas
Expats still seem to love living in Singapore. In a new HSBC survey involving 190 countries, the Republic was voted the best place to live, work and raise a family abroad. If you’re a banking...
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Morning Coffee: How to retire at 40 from a back office job. Ex-Goldman hiring...
Most people dream of being successful enough to put away a sizeable nest egg, putting themselves in a position to retire as soon as possible and live the life they’ve always imagined was possible. That...
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I was an MD in FICC. Losing my job at 35 means I’m finally looking after my...
If you make into a senior role in investment banking, there are plenty of reasons to stick around. The pay, the prestige, the lack of alternative careers that can offer similar remuneration. But what...
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These four hedge funds are hiring in London
Would you join a hedge fund in the UK now? Maybe it’s a bit risky, considering the downsizing at large players like Brevan Howard and Tudor Investment Corp, but people are being hired in London...
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Inside Cryan’s Deutsche Bank: the pain and the pay
If anyone has the experience to steer Deutsche Bank through the storm, it is John Cryan. Rarely has the appointment of a banking CEO looked more fortuitous. Prior to becoming CEO of Deutsche in July...
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What if you’d just quit Goldman Sachs and Citi for Deutsche Bank?
Imagine if you’d just left a rival tier one investment bank to join Deutsche. Imagine if the bank you’d left was Citi or Goldman Sachs. And imagine if, in the process of moving to Deutsche you’d had...
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How soon can you leave your job in an investment bank?
We write a lot about people who’ve left investment banks for something else. Leaving banking for a tech firm, or a private equity fund, or a pet food company is the thing. Few people aspire to become...
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Where ex-Barclays bankers in Asia are working now
It’s been a year of upheaval, to say the least, for Barclays in Singapore and Hong Kong. The bank has cut jobs from the front office to the back as it refocuses on serving the UK and US markets. It’s...
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Morning Coffee: How this 29-year-old trader pursued a $25m golden hello....
Three City traders stand accused of making “bogus trades” by recording the currency of their deals in dollars rather than Argentine pesos to milk $100m from a Russian bank. The three men altered the...
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Goldman Sachs, HSBC juniors escaping to Point72
Want to leave your job in M&A or equity research at a tier one (or even a tier three) investment bank in London? Steve Cohen’s family office will hire you. Point72 Asset Management, which had...
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Credit Suisse’s head of European credit structuring has left the bank
As Credit Suisse continues to pare costs in its investment bank, one of its most senior European structured credit bankers, has left. Emmanuel Parrenin worked for the Swiss bank in London for 11 years,...
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What it’s really like to work in leveraged finance, by a J.P. Morgan MD
If you want to work in the investment banking division of a large firm, leveraged finance is probably not the obvious choice. M&A and capital markets still hold the most sway to those starting out...
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Hard Brexit looms. How safe is your London banking job?
If you thought Brexit was either going to be endlessly deferred or so soft and cuddly that Britain’s banking industry escaped almost unscathed, you were wrong. In her conference speech yesterday,...
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Deutsche Bank markets MDs are now heading for the door
If you’re a senior investment banker who gets the tap on the shoulder at a struggling firm to tell you that your role is ‘at risk’, how long before you’re actually shown the door? In the case of Gavin...
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Poaching war erupts as big hedge funds in Asia target weaker rivals
A handful of large global hedge funds in Asia are taking advantage of a market downturn to poach from struggling buy-side rivals. But they’re not at all keen on candidates being laid off by the banks....
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“Working in Singapore corporate banking is brilliant – and not just because...
I’m an associate-level corporate banker at a big European firm in Singapore and – unlike a lot of people in financial services – I genuinely like my job. Not every day, of course, but overall I feel...
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Morning Coffee: Sad lives of 23 year-olds on trading floors. Theresa May’s...
Everyone knows that life as a junior in an investment banking division (IBD) can be harsh, but is your youth spent any more productively as an analyst or associate on a trading floor? As a trading...
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The best Polish banking jobs at Goldman Sachs, UBS, CS, Citi
As a hard Brexit veers into sight, something is becoming clear: all the talk about banks shifting jobs out of London is misplaced. It’s not shifting existing jobs out of the City that’s the issue, it’s...
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J.P. Morgan’s new Nomura analyst. Barclays hired a credit trader
If you’ve lost your job in an investment bank, Nomura’s unwanted equities professionals should be an inspiration to help you find a new one. Months after Nomura closed its equities business, Nomura’s...
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