18 Singapore banking jobs where VP salaries are still going up
Have you reached vice president (VP) level at a bank in Singapore? Are you expecting regular bumper pay rises now that you’re a (relatively) senior employee who’s supposedly making or saving your bank...
View ArticleHeadhunters reveal brutal truth of Asian hedge fund hiring in 2017
Like investment banks, hedge funds in Asia tend to do much of the hiring in the weeks following Chinese New Year. But their recruitment plans for the Year of the Rooster are already looking decidedly...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Deutsche Bank’s other method of cutting costs. Leaving...
Deutsche Bank is doing it all: the hiring freeze, the bonus annihilation, the layoffs, and the movement of front office banking jobs to obscure near-shore locations that weren’t traditionally...
View ArticleSenior banking technologists quit to become fintech gurus
Banks have been battling over senior technology professionals over the past six months, but they have a new problem – top technologists are reinventing themselves as fintech gurus. It makes sense – if...
View ArticleNot middle class? Try accounting instead of banking
If you’re a student trying to get a first job, an accounting career has several things going for it. The Big Four accounting firms are easier to get into than the big investment banks. They offer more...
View ArticleNew golden rules for getting as rich as possible in a hedge fund
It’s increasingly unlikely that you’ll end up getting rich quick working for a hedge fund, but if you want to maximise your earning potential, there are some golden rules to follow. Work for a big...
View ArticleEx-top Deutsche bankers regrouping as bank waits for post-bonus exits
Deutsche Bank is supposed to be making layoffs. Last week, there were reports that the German bank is thinking of making 20% of its people redundant this week and next. Headhunters in London say they...
View Article“When I found out I hadn’t made MD at 33, I went home and cried”
When I found out I wasn’t going to make managing director (MD) in 2010, I went home and cried. I was 33. Not for three or four minutes, but for over an hour with my wife next to me. I felt like a...
View Article20 finance jobs outside of the front office where it’s possible to earn $100k...
Not everyone who works in finance earns mega-bucks, but equally big pay packets are not restricted to revenue generating roles. It’s more than possible to earn six figures after just a few years in the...
View ArticleThe seven best jobs for ‘Rooster bankers’ in Asia
The Year of the Rooster is (almost) upon us – and for most banking professionals in Asia that means holidays, followed by bonuses. But what kind of banking roles are specifically suited to so-called...
View ArticleHow to boost your banking career over the Chinese New Year holidays
Finance professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore are set to spend at least a long weekend away from the office. But while the Chinese New Year holidays are mainly about meeting up with family and...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Bank reveals plan to shift just 1.5% of jobs from UK...
Barclays has divulged its plan for for shifting jobs out of the UK after Brexit. It’s surprisingly benign. After last week’s warning from Jamie Dimon that J.P. Morgan’s Brexit-induced job movement...
View Article$20k raised in two days after untimely death of senior FX trader
If you work in an FX function in the City of London, you should know David Hitchins. He was the head of FX for EMEA at Jefferies, but has held various senior positions at Unicredit, Credit Agricole and...
View ArticleUpset at UBS’s investment bank as 2016 turns sour
Last time UBS reported, we suggested things were looking a little off at the investment bank, and that Andrea Orcel’s July 2016 promise to stop cutting costs (and by implication, jobs) looked a rash....
View ArticleMeet 14 impressive interns coming into investment banks in 2017
The vast majority of investment banks have now closed their summer internship programmes to applications. But, like the full-time positions, a select band of students have already received offers. As...
View ArticleJefferies has ways of making you stay
Jefferies has contracts and it’s not afraid to use them. Such is the conclusion to be drawn from the bank’s latest U.S. legal wranglings and existing clawback policies. Before you join Jefferies, you...
View Article“I devoted my 10 best years to trading. Now I need a plan B”
There’s only so much I can take. After a decade as an equities trader at some of the world’s biggest investment banks, I’m now out of the market – again. And this time, I’m not even trying to go back....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: When 20-somethings and old school bankers collide. Big...
Investment banks want to be seen as technology companies and need the sort of office spaces that attract cool 20-somethings. Investment banks also want to cut-costs wherever they can – think economy...
View ArticleThis private equity firm has been hiring Deutsche Bank juniors
Top investment banking analysts are, of course, prime targets for private equity, which tend to recruit off-cycle whenever the need arises. But one London-based buy-side firm has been targeting the...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs analysts and associates hit by Trump travel ban
Where are the banks? While Silicon Valley firms like Google, Netflix, Apple and Twitter, have denigrated Donald Trump’s Friday executive order blocking refugees and barring citizens of Iran, Iraq,...
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