“Bankers are dropping out of jobs in Singapore as complacent banks take too...
I’m an investment banking headhunter in Singapore and I have a big gripe about the way many global banks (i.e. my clients) here are behaving this year when hiring junior to mid-level front-office...
View ArticleMy bank promoted me within months of getting my MBA. Here’s what happened
Mandeep Sedha, who’s now an Information Security and Risk Partner at Credit Suisse, didn’t have to wait long to see the benefits of her Singapore Management University (SMU) MBA – she was promoted...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How to set up a hedge fund if you’re not Greg Coffey or...
Who doesn’t dream of setting up their own hedge fund? For sell siders, it’s a dream of being the client and having people forced to respect you for a change. On the buy side, it’s the dream of a fund...
View ArticleBankers on the breadline: why you still feel poor on $200k
If you work in the financial services industry in a major financial centre like London, New York, or Hong Kong, you almost certainly earn more than the average person. You may even be in the fabled top...
View ArticleThese are the jobs and the companies a CFA qualification will open the door to
As per usual, Saturday’s CFA exam featured plenty of drama for the 227k people who sat for one of the three levels. Crying, claims of cheating and multiple digestive issues highlighted the latest round...
View ArticleIn just three days, Deutsche Bank’s redundancies are supposed to be over
It’s not exactly a hard-stop, but it is certainly a commitment. – At the end of May, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing said his intention was for the German bank to make the “vast majority” of its...
View ArticleI recruit for a big bank in Singapore. Here’s how to keep me happy
It’s still the busy(ish) season for hiring in the Singapore banking sector. Finance professionals have their bonuses and some are sending resumes to recruiters. But if you want to change jobs via a...
View ArticleThis Hong Kong IPO could help you land a job in private equity
China Renaissance’s post-IPO recruitment spree will likely focus mainly on private equity rather than investment banking. But the boutique bank may still struggle to lure talent away from Western...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Deutsche Bankers aren’t as sad as you think. Google staffers...
Deutsche Bank is in the process of cutting as many as 7,000 jobs globally, its share price seems to hit a new record-low every day and chances are good the lender’s U.S. operations will fail the latest...
View ArticleCenterbridge Partners is hiring Goldman and Morgan Stanley juniors in London
Want to work for a U.S. private equity fund in London? Junior bankers are leaving Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to work for Centerbridge Partners, a U.S. fund with around $14bn under management,...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan’s data scientists are about to launch something wild
Something is underway at J.P. Morgan. In the coming weeks or months, the bank will be launching a new website to allow anyone to compete in the creation of accurate predictions based on large sets of...
View ArticleWhy interns prefer Google and Facebook over Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan
Investment banks no longer top the list of ideal destinations for prospective interns. Each year, the likes of Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are knocked further down the ranks by yet another tech...
View ArticleHSBC hires former Barclays MD to focus on emerging markets
HSBC has hired Barclays’ former head of emerging markets macro trading to help turn around the U.K. bank’s own EM business. Anthony DeMartino started as a managing director with HSBC in New York in...
View ArticleBob Diamond already dramatically hiked headcount at his new firm
Bob Diamond is a busy man. After taking over loss-making British stockbroker and investment bank Panmure Gordon in March 2017, the former CEO of Barclays this week invested in Kepler Cheuvreux, a...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan: the new favourite hunting ground for North Asia’s top tech firms
Chinese technology companies have a thing for hiring investment bankers in Hong Kong and mainland China, but J.P. Morgan hasn’t traditionally been their preferred headhunting ground. That now looks...
View ArticleNow it’s Grab’s turn to poach people from banks in Singapore
Following the lead set by Google, Singapore-based tech firm Grab is increasingly raiding the Republic’s banking sector to fuel its local headcount expansion. Among the latest banking professionals to...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The ideal investment banking job for the summer months. Angst...
As investment banks like Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan consolidate M&A sector teams into something larger and more generic (eg. Deutsche in Europe) or something smaller and more tech-focused (eg....
View ArticleCompliance hiring and pay to increase, but not everyone will be winning
While regulatory burdens will lead to the continued increase of overall spending on compliance staff in banking in 2018, the days of every big firm chasing compliance professionals seem to be over....
View ArticleI am a PA in an investment bank. These are my secrets
If you work in a front office job in an investment bank and are unhappy with your pay, your hours or your prestige, you should try being a personal assistant. I am the PA to a managing director and his...
View ArticleThe hot young ED to know if you want a job at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt
If you want to get in from the start as Goldman Sachs expands its Frankfurt office, we can point you in the direction of an executive director (ED) who has turned up in Frankfurt to grow the Goldman...
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