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Disconcerted Deutsche Bank traders are being made to work their notice periods
When you resign from your job on the trading floor of an investment bank, it’s standard practice to be locked out of a bank’s systems and immediately bewith escorted from the building. After all, no...
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I’m a serial job hopper in Asia. But my banking career is still booming....
After graduating I worked for a Singaporean bank, but I didn’t stay beyond two years. Then I did a stint of only eight months at one global bank and stayed at another foreign firm in Singapore for...
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Morning Coffee: The $1m “rude” banker who wouldn’t take phone calls. The...
At the end of last week, Credit Suisse paid out fines of $47m to the DoJ and around $30m to the SEC, to settle the investigation into its “princelings” hiring scandal. This was an investigation into...
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Against banking internships – give the kids their summer back
It’s getting into that time of year when London is filled with the perennial sounds of an English summer. Leather on willow (or if it’s an Ashes series, leather on stump). Sausages sizzling on the...
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How to leverage your banking resume to get an MBA at Harvard, Wharton or...
MBA admissions officers used to look more favorably upon applicants with financial services experience. The strong work ethic associated with investment bankers and money managers and the prestige that...
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Credit Suisse hires airplane salesman as new MD
Credit Suisse has brought on board Raymond Sisson, a veteran salesperson who has spent his entire career in aircraft leasing, as a new managing director in New York. It is not immediately clear what...
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Top prime brokerage execs depart Cowen in short order
The two U.S. co-heads of prime brokerage at Cowen Inc. have left the firm just a year after joining. Michael DeJarnette and Douglas Nelson were named co-heads of the U.S. business in 2017 after coming...
View ArticleSingapore tech giant Sea has just hired an Asia head from Credit Suisse
Santitarn Sathirathai, Credit Suisse’s head of emerging Asia economics, has joined Singapore-based internet company Sea, in the latest example of a senior Asian banking professional leaving for the...
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Morning Coffee: Europe’s most powerful ex-banker credited with Citi coup....
Citi and BlackRock have become the latest financial firms to announce that they’re hiring in Paris rather than London. But Michael Corbat and Larry Fink, CEOs of Citi and BlackRock respectively, aren’t...
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These are the interview questions you’ll be asked at Citi
Working for Citi may be no easy task. The hours may be long, the pay not be totally satisfactory (although you should at least get a lot of cash in your bonus) and if you work in tech or operations the...
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I went from being a lonely cubicle slave to an MD at a top bank
In around a month, the new generation of juniors will arrive to join the analyst classes at investment banks. They might come with ideas about how their banking careers will evolve, but if there’s one...
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Morgan Stanley M&A bankers outperform Goldman Sachs at home and abroad, among...
While merger and acquisition activity has spiked globally during the first half of 2018, the U.S. has clearly offered the most fertile ground, accounting for more than half of global M&A volume...
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Surge in Hong Kong bankers wanting jobs at “price butcher” banks
As Chinese companies dominate new listing in Hong Kong, more rank-and-file ECM bankers in the city are vying to join the mainland banks that are underwriting these deals, say headhunters. “There’s now...
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Nine Singapore finance jobs that will pay you more than $350k
In which jobs will you earn the highest base salaries in the Singapore finance sector? And how much will you actually get paid when you reach the senior ranks in these roles? To find out, we averaged...
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Morning Coffee: What Morgan Stanley’s potential new boss says about the firm....
Morgan Stanley gave a possible window into its eventual succession plan on Monday by offering a huge promotion to someone with a polar opposite background from its current chief executive, opening up...
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Has your secret phone become a problem on the trading floor?
One of the greatest battles between management and staff in the investment banking industry is “mobile phones on the trading floor”. On the one hand, personal phones are a compliance disaster area....
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Horror as senior bankers forced to redo their CVs
In a world where job security and loyalty to employers are fading memories, it’s normally a given that you should have a well-written, up-to date, modern-recruiter-compliant CV ready to go. Strangely...
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The bankers that are grumbling most about their bonuses
Understanding the true sentiment of bankers is a difficult task, particularly when it comes to pay. No matter the size of bonus pools, bankers habitually think they should earn more than they actually...
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Amazon has been quietly shopping for banking professionals in Singapore
Google and Grab like to raid banks to find front-office bankers and strategists for their business development teams in Singapore. Amazon Web Services (AWS), however, has a thing for hiring technical...
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“I work for a European bank in Hong Kong, but I want to quit for J.P. Morgan”
I work for a big European bank in Hong Kong. After nine years in the job I’ve had enough and I want to join an American firm, preferably J.P. Morgan. Why leave when I’ve successfully moved up the ranks...
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