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Ex-BNP Paribas EM professionals are causing a stir, as one turns up at...
Have you worked in the emerging markets (EM) team at BNP Paribas? Following revelations this week, you may either be considered hot property or a potential liability. Either way, it seems that banks...
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Maybe you should work for the CFA Institute? Executive pay there is pretty huge
The next time you’re looking for a gig that’s in finance, but not so much in finance that it comes with finance-style working hours and stresses, you might want to look across to the CFA Institute. The...
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“I chose Asian commercial banking instead of IBD. Here’s why”
I began to plan my career when I was a student at a leading university in the US. With my academic background I could have easily applied for a job at one of the top investment banks back home in...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Behold the hot new role at Goldman Sachs and Citi. Schroders...
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece over the weekend about “straders”. It’s an unlovely portmanteau word, combining “strategists” (Goldman Sachs speak for quants) with “traders”. A more...
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How my state-educated son from a non-finance family beat 350 people to a...
My son was offered a graduate job in a small global macro hedge fund in Mayfair in London. How do I feel about this? I’m delighted! The offer followed a successful summer internship as a quantitative...
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You’re ‘more than a name’: Goldman Sachs pitches celebs in new strategy
“The world might see you through one lens: a star during game time. We know you’re more than that…more than a name, more than a role model, more than a jersey, more than a superstar.” No, that’s not...
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Another Two Sigma veteran joins outspoken, uber-alternative money manager
Rishi Ganti has poached another former colleague from hedge fund giant Two Sigma to help manage his highly-alternative private equity funds. James Lavelle, a former senior vice president who spent the...
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The terrible CV mistake that’s stopping Asian bankers getting jobs
“I’m going through lots of resumes at the moment, but it’s often difficult to see what people actually achieved in their jobs and what they’d bring to a new employer,” says a Singapore-based recruiter....
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This super elite HSBC team in Hong Kong has just hired a new senior banker
HSBC Private Bank in Hong Kong has made another senior hire into the team that serves super-wealthy customers. Former CICC banker Yahong Wu joined HSBC as a director of ultra-high net worth (UHNW)...
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Morning Coffee: Deutsche’s false economy with travel budget. Lehman’s 10-year...
More bad news from Deutsche Bank’s cost-cutting program. James von Moltke, Deutsche’s chief financial officer, is encouraging employees to “take every opportunity to restrict non-essential travel”....
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Three big misconceptions about investment banks’ technology internship programs
I’ve spent the past two summers working in the technology divisions of major investment banks. As a result, I have a pretty good idea of what it’s like to join a big banks’ technology program as an...
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Why I left a large investment bank to join a small boutique
If you ask someone at a big bank for career advice, they will usually answer that it is best to work for a bulge bracket. However, if you ask someone at a boutique, they too will likely favor their own...
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These are the CFA’s funky new questions. Could you answer them?
If you just passed Level I of the CFA exam, congratulations. You’ve got about 10 months to prepare for Level II. However, you may need to start studying a bit earlier this time around. The CFA...
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Joining a HK fintech firm was like being in a “deep swamp” at first. But now...
Up until early 2017 I’d spent more than 10 years working at SWIFT, a global fintech innovator established back in the 1970s that has since developed some of the advanced technology used by today’s...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Fresh career hope for fired bankers. The man leading J.P....
When ex-Barclays trader David Fotheringhame won a legal case last week compelling Barclays to rehire him, it was billed as a personal triumph for a man who’d been fired by the bank in 2015....
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I had six finance jobs in eight years – here’s how I dealt with this at...
Investment banking is an industry in which nothing is certain. It also one in which people are usually refreshingly upfront about the fact that they’re in it for the money rather than to change the...
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What I was never told about sales careers in investment banks
I worked in sales jobs at both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in London. If you haven’t worked in a banking sales role before and are thinking of applying, let me tell you that it is probably not...
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How much you’ll really earn working in consulting, year-by-year
Eyeing a better work-life balance, more graduates of prestigious universities and MBA programs are saying no to investment banking and yes to top consulting firms like Bain & Co., McKinsey and...
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Bank recruiter slams “entitlement culture” among Singapore job seekers
You would think that after about six years of tough market conditions in the banking sector in Singapore most candidates (particularly people who’ve been laid off) would have curtailed their...
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Ex-Stan Chart MD: Learning a “hot programming language” could help save your...
Terence Goh was schooled in the traditional banking sector in Asia. After starting his career in 1994 at DBS, he then spent seven years at Citi in Singapore before moving to OCBC as head of investments...
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