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J.P. Morgan hires from Morgan Stanley for new team head in Singapore
J.P. Morgan has hired Jay Sanghani as head of metals and mining for East Asia. Sanghani joined the US bank’s Singapore office last month from Morgan Stanley, where he had worked as an executive...
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The nine best banking and tech jobs at Standard Chartered in Asia right now
It currently has about 392 job vacancies in Singapore and 339 in Hong Kong, but what are the best Asian teams to apply to at Standard Chartered right now? The bank’s recently released Half Year Report...
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Morning Coffee: Should Kweku Adoboli go on Love Island? Reality shows for...
For financial people of a certain age, there is only one guest on this series of Celebrity Big Brother to be interested in. Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank and who was...
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Pay in industry vs. pay in banking. Who gets the most?
Maybe you should have gone into industry instead of hanging about hoping to work your way up to managing director in an investment bank? After all, today’s report from the UK’s High Pay Centre and the...
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The 10 Wall Street jobs that banks can’t seem to fill
While the job market on Wall Street is generally improving, there are still many more heads than there are seats, particularly when you’re talking about experienced professionals in New York. Applying...
View ArticleTD Securities in Asia is growing as it continues to recruit new talent
TD Securities is the Wholesale Banking division of TD, the Canadian headquartered Financial Services firm now ranked sixth largest bank in North America. As its operations in Asia grow they continue to...
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Banking juniors keep leaving for consulting. Are they making a terrible mistake?
Jobs in banking and jobs in consulting have long been different sides of the same coin. Both attract highly driven people from elite universities. Both pay well and expect hard work in return – even if...
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If that Barclays trader lost $19m at J.P. Morgan, it would be no big deal
Events in Turkey have claimed their first known victim: Bloomberg reports that Tolga Kirbay, a director level credit trader at Barclays in London, lost $19m trading Turkish bonds in recent days....
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The CFA Institute is not really a super-profitable organization
This is a brief article for anyone who found out yesterday that they failed June’s CFA Level I or Level II exams and is in search of some schadenfreude as rehabilitation, or for anyone who complains...
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Here’s how much technologists at your bank in Hong Kong are really earning in...
Banks in Hong Kong are now pitching themselves against large tech firms for IT talent – and not always successfully. As we’ve reported over the past few weeks, companies such as Amazon, JD.com and...
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Julius Baer takes on UBS director as aggressive Asian expansion continues
Julius Baer has poached a director from UBS in Singapore, one of the latest hires in its ongoing Asian expansion. Sarah Lim joined the investment advisory team at Julius Baer in Singapore last month,...
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Morning Coffee: Star Deutsche Bank trader earns much-needed win for CEO....
The way things have gone for Deutsche Bank recently, one would almost have to assume that the German lender was one of the several banks that was on the wrong side bets on Turkish bonds and currency....
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The A Level results that will get you a job at Goldman Sachs
It’s A Level results day in the UK. The exams, taken by students before they go to university and seen as a proxy for 18 year-old promise, have served up another round of exceptional attainment: 26.4%...
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UBS poaches Goldman Sachs veteran to run data lab
UBS has hired a former Goldman Sachs managing director to head up the data lab within its investment bank. Ronald Jansen started with UBS in New York in August. Jansen spent the last 13 years at...
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Despite working in various analytical roles in the commodities sector, Kian Boon Ng had found it difficult in the early stages to take his career in a new direction when he wanted to make the...
View ArticleMy MBA helped me to land a job in banking. Here’s how it enabled to me change...
Arafat Sheik Jabbar, Director and Asia Pacific Channel Services Head, at Citi, credits his Hong Kong University MBA for enabling him to land his dream job. Sheik Jabbar started his career as a Software...
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Deutsche Bank hit by a wave of U.S. resignations while tech staff complain of...
Deutsche Bank insiders say the German bank has been hit by a wave of senior resignations in the U.S. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank technology staff are complaining about the tone from the top. The U.S....
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Deutsche staff still “anxious” in Asia even as bank says cuts almost over
Almost three months after Deutsche Bank started trimming jobs from its investment bank in Hong Kong and Singapore, employees in the division are still regularly contacting headhunters about roles at...
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BNP Paribas’ Asian buildout rumbles on with senior hire from Stan Chart
BNP Paribas has made another senior appointment into its expanding Asian private bank by hiring a Standard Chartered executive director and team head. Singapore-based Adrian Chong has joined the French...
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Morning Coffee: Ex-Barclays’ trading head exacts curious revenge on former...
Remember David Fotheringhame? He’s a Cambridge University graduate with a first class degree in natural sciences and an Oxford PhD in computational neuroscience. He also has a first class degree in...
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