Former recruiter becomes derivatives VP at Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs recently promoted its new class of vice presidents (VPs). Among their number was a former associate with an atypical background: before joining Goldman Sachs in January 2015 he spent...
View ArticleNomura’s ex-head of sales has just set up a mentoring website
What can you do if you’re a senior salesman within an investment bank with 30 plus years of experience who finds themselves out of the market after your employer makes some big cuts? In the case of...
View Article7 finance firms working with AI, and why you should be afraid of them
Just because one Goldman Sachs MD quit banking for an elusive residency at Google Brain, don’t assume you need to leave finance to pursue your passion for machine learning. As artificial intelligence...
View ArticleThe mistakes made by new associates in investment banks
Analysts in investment banks across the City and Wall Street are no longer bottom of the career ladder. Investment banks have just promoted their third-year analysts to associates – or even quicker in...
View ArticleIt’s not just Brexit, Britain is fundamentally averse to banking
52% of Britons don’t like the European Union, but (and there are no statistics to validate this) it seems that a far higher proportion of the population dislike “banks” and the “bankers” who work in...
View ArticleThe best universities for landing a fintech job in Hong Kong
Major banks in Hong Kong, including Citi and Standard Chartered, are gearing up to hire more junior techies this year. But which universities will they recruit from? Which Hong Kong colleges currently...
View ArticleSeven front-office Asian banking jobs you can get BEFORE Chinese New Year
International banks in Asia may be preparing for the (comparatively) busy hiring period after Chinese New Year, but right now vacancies – especially front-office ones – are thin on the ground. If you...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Deutsche Bank’s brave method of hiring young bankers. The...
Twitter hasn’t been the greatest friend to investment banks. J.P. Morgan’s infamous #AskJPM in 2013 resulted in a deluge of abuse and most banks have taken a relatively corporate approach to social...
View ArticleWhy you should keep applying for finance jobs, even when you’re rejected
You apply for one finance job. Two, three, four, five. Hundreds – maybe even thousands. You don’t succeed. Should you give up? No. I’ve been in this industry for almost eighteen years. I have seen the...
View ArticleWhere financial services firms will be hiring in the U.S. in 2017
As 2017 has begun to unfold, now is the time when most financial services organisation have finalised their hiring plans. With a flurry of job cuts in the final quarter of 2016 and into this year,...
View ArticleCredit Suisse has just poached a top quant in this hot area from Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley has been losing senior quants over the past year through a combination of redundancies and exits, and another has just jumped to a competitor. Jon Hill led a team of quants within Morgan...
View ArticleWhat to ask in an interview at Deutsche Bank, by J.P. Morgan
Deutsche Bank is starting 2017 in spry old form. The stock’s up 71% on September lows, the Damoclean $14bn Department of Justice fine has been cut to a more manageable $7.2bn (a civil monetary penalty...
View ArticleSeven outstanding Asian students who’ve now made it into Goldman Sachs
What does it take to get a 2017 internship at Goldman Sachs in Asia? The summer may still be months away, but in the past few weeks Goldman has been offering intern jobs to successful applicants....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Dark mutterings about the Deutsche Bank bonus pool. Pre-bonus...
A phantasm has coalesced from the murky chatter surrounding Deutsche Bank’s 2016 cash bonuses: seems there might not be any after all. You will recall that Deutsche Bankers went from all-but dismissing...
View ArticleOdey Asset Management hires young aristocrat after redundancies
On the gilded streets of Mayfair, few hedge fund managers are as blue-blooded and stereotypically British as Odey Asset Management. In-keeping with this reputation, Odey has just hired Henry, Earl of...
View ArticleMeet the German bank hiring junior M&A bankers in London (it’s not Deutsche)
Based upon the recent performance of its M&A business, Deutsche Bank could benefit from hiring some new M&A bankers. Indeed, it says it wants to hire some new M&A bankers – particularly for...
View ArticleCapula Investment Management paid someone £34m
Even in hedge funds there are haves and (comparative) have nots. Capula Investment Management is a case in point. The London hedge fund has just released its accounts for the 12 months ending March...
View ArticleThe most exciting new jobs at Goldman Sachs are not open to finance candidates
If you haven’t got the message already, Goldman Sachs is a technology firm. Lloyd Blankfein says so. If that’s not sufficient, around 27% of its staff are technologists and a technologist, Marty...
View ArticleExit options for investment banking sales staff as cuts take hold
It’s not just traders who are facing the axe as automation and restructuring in investment banking takes hold. With banks pulling out of certain business areas, or deciding to focus on big clients who...
View ArticleRothschild junior bankers denied access to the company butlers
Butlers are generally a thing of the past in Britain, existing only in the popular imagination fuelled by the likes of Downton Abbey and Remains of the Day. Rothschild, however, is an exception: at...
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