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Is this the best fintech firm to join right now? One trading veteran seems to...
Sabrina Gagliotta has just been hired as the senior vice president of sales at Thesys Technologies, a capital markets fintech firm previously known as Tradeworx. It rebranded in January after spinning...
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I was an associate in IBD at JPMorgan. This is why women leave banking
The numbers are out. Like many of the women who work in male-dominated industries, I am not surprised. The gap in pay between men and women in banking is huge. Hidden within these numbers are two...
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Deutsche bankers ‘expecting departures’ in the U.S. following CEO change
Deutsche Bank’s decision to replace embattled CEO John Cryan with retail-focused Deutsche veteran Christian Sewing portends potential bad news for current and potential investing banking employees in...
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“I’m starting my banking career in Hong Kong. Bankers drink too much in London”
I interned at a top US bank in Hong Kong last summer and I was lucky enough to secure a return job offer. The bank asked me whether I wanted to start out in Hong Kong or London. I didn’t hesitate to go...
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Goldman Sachs hires a new Asia head from HSBC in big expansion drive
Goldman Sachs has hired a new Asia head of fixed income currencies and commodities technology amid an ongoing drive to revive its underperforming FICC business. Chekib Miaoui joined Goldman in Hong...
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Morning Coffee: The investment banking MDs struggling on $2m-$4m a year. Pay...
Five years ago, we wrote something here about bankers who were struggling to subsist on $1m a year. Since then, it seems inflation has hiked the banking breadline: there are now managing directors in...
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BAML hires top machine-learning quant from J.P. Morgan
Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Rajesh Krishnamachari, formerly a senior quantitative strategist and researcher at J.P. Morgan, as the head of data science for equities in New York last month....
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Equity derivatives professionals quitting Goldman Sachs amidst hiring boom
Equity derivatives recruitment is hot this year and Bank of America isn’t the only bank losing staff. Three equity derivatives sales and trading professionals have left Goldman Sachs in London and New...
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The job that may virtually guarantee acceptance to Harvard Business School
Getting admitted to Harvard is no easy task, on both the undergraduate and graduate level. The undergraduate admissions rate sunk to an all-time low 2.43% in 2018. The rates for Harvard Business School...
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Meet the banking MD with the most enormous number of side-projects
What’s life like when you’re a seasoned investment banker with a 27 year banking career behind you? Try asking Ed Matthews, a former Nomura and Lehman Brothers managing director with a lot of other...
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Deutsche Bank in Asia: whose jobs are safe, whose aren’t?
Private bankers at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and Singapore are feeling fairly upbeat about the reign of their new CEO, Christian Sewing. Investment bankers, less so. Sewing, who had previously been...
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Morning Coffee: Pity the Goldman Sachs bankers who joined Deutsche. Credit...
You’re part of a group of hotshot new hires from Goldman Sachs intent on spreading the GS ethos across your new bank. As more people like you join, you feel more empowered…then suddenly it all goes...
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It’s hiring season in banking. But can you actually find a job?
If you’re thinking of finding a new banking job in 2018, the time to do so is, theoretically, now. After all, bonuses have been paid and hiring budgets approved. Banks have spaces to fill and for front...
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@GSElevator gets serious on regrets, Trump and all the haters
John LeFevre, author and owner of the infamous Twitter handle @GSElevator, talked to us about why he’s distancing himself from his character, his future plans and offered a few pointed thoughts for...
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Goldman Sachs moved another MD to Frankfurt to help prepare for Brexit
As the Brexit clock continues ticking, banks are continuing to make quiet preparations for the day when they may have to locate some of their activities in continental Europe. Goldman Sachs, for...
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19 senior bankers who swapped jobs last year and could now hire you
With so much turnover on Wall Street, it can be difficult to keep track of all of the investment banking movers and shakers as they move from one firm to another. That said, it’s important to know...
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Nine ways to answer the worst job interview question in Asian banking
It’s a generic and predictable job interview question, but finance professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore are too often stumped by it: “Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?” The main...
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Banks in Singapore and Hong Kong “blacklist” contractors who quit after a few...
Contract jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong are booming as global banks in the cities keep a tight rein on headcount costs. But the contracting market in Asia is still less mature than in Western...
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Morning Coffee: Inside Goldman Sachs’ preparedness for a terrorist attack....
God forbid there should be another major terrorist attack in New York City, but if there is, you’ll probably be safer at Goldman Sachs’ office in Lower Manhattan than anywhere else in NYC. So suggests...
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I work for a U.S. bank and I’ve found curious things in colleagues’ drawers
If you work in a bank, you might think you know your colleagues. After all, you probably spend upwards of 10 hours a day with them. In fact, you don’t. And you will find this out if you ever have...
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