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13 sure-fire ways to write an outstanding compliance resume
Compliance professionals have long been in demand world over, with vacancies opening up as banks grapple with new regulations and try to avoid billion-dollar fines. But more people are also entering...
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Inside SocGen’s big push to hire 300 grads and interns across Asia
Around 300 graduates and interns are joining Societe Generale in Asia this year in a rolling junior recruitment drive. SocGen’s regional hiring numbers, which exclude its global solutions centre in...
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Morning Coffee: Why UBS bankers don’t need more money. The London fintech shift
When senior managers at global banks have made public pronouncements lately, they have tended to heap pressure on their employees to become less expensive and more efficient…or face the axe. But nobody...
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Investment banking analysts in the City get Brexit summer bonus boost
The slumping pound is anticipated to make the terrible bonus round in 2016 appear a little less severe at U.S. investment banks in London, but for analysts in the City who have just been paid, Brexit...
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Tales of workaholic investment banking bosses, and how to survive them
It wasn’t the greatest precedent to set. Alex, a third-year associate working on a FIG investment banking team in London, had just seen her notoriously hard-driving managing director go on maternity...
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Goldman Sachs has poached a new global head of distressed credit from...
Goldman Sachs may be slowly letting people go in its New York office, as well as cutting in fixed income generally, but it’s also hiring when the right person comes along. In the senior ranks, it has...
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EY has been drastically increasing its graduate recruitment in the U.S.
EY is making an aggressive play to beat the other Big Four professional services firms, financial services firms and other industries to talent coming out of U.S. universities and has increased its...
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The three key problems women in banking now face in the workplace
In my career as a head of selection at Standard Chartered, career coach and leadership specialist, I’ve encountered many under-valued women managers in banking and other sectors. These people have high...
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“Banks in Asia hire too many boring candidates who soon get sick of their jobs”
I was out at lunch near my office in central Singapore the other day and I overheard a conversation between two finance professionals that I think resonates with many of us here in Asia. “A recruiter...
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Morning Coffee: Inside the most high-profile deal of the year. You can still...
When the main players are Hulk Hogan suing your client, Gawker, over publishing an excerpt of his sex tape, backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, you know that your job finding a potential...
View ArticleThe top universities for the 2016 analyst class at Barclays and HSBC
If you want to work for a UK-based investment bank these days, your options are limited. Royal Bank of Scotland has gone from a pre-crisis behemoth, to a small player in the investment banking space...
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Top investment banker leaves for fintech, returns seven months later
It’s an all too familiar career path in investment banking these days – senior investment banker quits for a fintech start-up, bemoans previous vocation as a declining industry, sails off into the...
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Nine golden rules for dressing down as an investment banker
If you work in investment banking it’s generally accepted that you have to be suited and booted. In a culture that frowns on even wearing brown shoes or patterned shirts in a work environment, the...
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Morgan Stanley has just made a big FIG hire
Morgan Stanley has made a significant addition to its financial institutions group (FIG) in the U.S., poaching a senior managing director from Guggenheim Partners in New York. Thomas Chen joined Morgan...
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15 tricky questions that could stump you in a corporate banking interview...
Interviews for relationship manager jobs in corporate banking can be daunting experiences. Get set to be grilled about every aspect of your clients, and how you interact with and make money from them....
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The outstanding 20-somethings who’ve just joined HSBC in Hong Kong and Singapore
HSBC’s first-half profits may have plummeted this year, but the bank remains a prolific recruiter of graduates in Hong Kong and Singapore. Many of these 20-something hires have joined HSBC since July,...
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Morning Coffee: Credit Suisse’s “hasty and vague effort” against departing...
In May, five heavy-hitting investment bankers accepted offers to leave Credit Suisse’s San Francisco-based technology team for a rival firm, Jefferies. Now the circumstances of their departure are...
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Six ways to handle an annoying coworker
A career in the world of finance has many challenges. You need to juggle several balls and keep a few plates spinning at all times. To be competitive, you need to have up-to-the-second real-time...
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Being in Hong Kong’s “kick-ass” finance sector is like working on Wall Street...
When Jeb Altonaga, COO of hedge fund PINYIN Capital Management, first arrived in Hong Kong, he’d already clocked up more than 10 years’ finance experience in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. “But...
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Morning Coffee: Wall Street analysts and traders are soul-searching – and...
Wall Street stock analysts are predicting doom – for their own profession. Of course, technology – and its meteoric impact on investment banking – is to blame, and research analysts will have to adapt...
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