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Barclays lost one of its most senior FX technologists
Edward (‘Ed’) Falinksi, one of the most senior FX technologists at Barclays, is understood to have left the bank. Sources say Falinksi left Barclays recently. His name is no longer on Barclays’...
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Credit Agricole quietly hired Barclays’ ex-head of EMEA macro sales in NY
Remember Kashif Zafar? He’s the former head of EMEA senior relationship management and ex-co head of global macro products who left Barclays earlier this year after the British bank hired Filippo...
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Why developers who’ve left big tech firms find banks a breathe of fresh air
On the whole, young talent prefers to work at tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Apple over investment banks like Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. The main reason isn’t earning power or the...
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First the financial crisis cut my pay by 70%. Then it killed my finance career
People say that no one in banking suffered during the financial crisis. Or that they didn’t suffer enough. I would like to offer myself as a counterfactual. Before the financial crisis, I was an...
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John Waldron’s guide to getting ahead in banking
John Waldron has just been named the next president and COO of Goldman Sachs. We spoke to John in April 2018, after Goldman Sachs came top in our Ideal Employer survey. This is what John said. How has...
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Here’s what your investment banking salary and bonus should be in Hong Kong
Do you work in M&A, ECM or DCM in Hong Kong? Do you want to know how your investment banking salary and bonus stack up to help you decide whether you might be better off at another firm? We’ve...
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UOB snares new managing director from world’s largest telecoms company
UOB has hired a chief information security officer, and he comes not from a bank but from Chinese technology giant Huawei. Tobias Gondrom has joined UOB at managing director level following a...
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Morning Coffee: A rough day for traders at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan....
Thursday wasn’t exactly a banner day for traders at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan but for very different reasons. A management shakeup at Goldman has left the bank’s once dominant securities division...
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J.P. Morgan’s new AI chief begins recruiting spree with key Facebook hire
Well that didn’t take long. Apoorv Saxena, J.P. Morgan’s new head of artificial intelligence and machine-learning services, has only been on the job for two weeks yet has already poached an experienced...
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The real reason Marty Chavez was demoted as CFO at Goldman Sachs
Who knew? It seems that David-DJ D Sol- Solomon, he who likes to spin happy, enervating discs on sandy Hamptons beaches frequented by adulatory millennials in swimwear, is actually ruthless. Witness...
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I was an associate at Lehman Brothers. Then I had to wash my own shirts
For a brief few months I was living the dream. After finishing my MBA I was an associate at Lehman Brothers in London. I was a single man, in a fancy flat (yes, I signed a year-long lease), with people...
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20-something bankers in Hong Kong and Singapore “making up” skills on their CVs
Young finance professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong are in comparatively high demand this year as banks focus on junior recruitment at the expense of costly senior hires. But as a result, recruiters...
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Morning Coffee: Ex-banking VP discovers true horror of salaries outside...
The, ‘I was there when Lehman Brothers went down,’ stories are coming in thick and fast. The Financial Times has them, Bloomberg has them, even AOL. One of the best though is buried within the FT’s...
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Goldman Sachs MDs keep departing for hedge funds
It’s happening again. Senior investment bankers at Goldman Sachs are leaving, before bonuses are paid, for hedge funds. At least two managing directors and one executive director have left Goldman...
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Mike Grimaldi still hiring former colleagues to top J.P. Morgan technology jobs
Michael Grimaldi, J. P. Morgan’s chief information officer for its corporate and investment bank, has hired yet another former colleague for a top tech job at the firm. Tom Waite, a senior technologist...
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The new most precarious place to work at Deutsche Bank?
Deutsche Bank is going to Frankfurt. Or at least its assets are: the Financial Times reports that the bank is moving 75% of its assets to the German city in the next three to five years as it becomes...
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“Chinese banks dominate Hong Kong hiring. There’s no debate now”
I’ve been headhunting in Hong Kong banking for about 15 years having moved here from the UK. Aside from the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, I haven’t come across a time where the big...
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11 interview questions you will (almost) always be asked by DBS, OCBC and UOB
You’ve spent your career working for global banks, but you’ve just landed a job interview at one of Singapore’s local banks, DBS, OCBC or UOB. You’re not alone. The three firms – which collectively...
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The big mistake of my hedge fund career: taking my wife on a business trip
I’ve worked on the buy-side for many years now. As I’ve complained here before, they pay isn’t enough (it never is), but there’s one area in which they make it up to me: hotels. Long years ago, when I...
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Morning Coffee: $1bn hedge fund manager now regrets “wasted” life spent...
“I’ve wasted my time making money for the last 30 years and watching the body politic getting worse and worse”. It’s quite a thing to say as an assessment of a hedge fund career that brought Crispin...
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