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The Hong Kong finance jobs where you must speak Mandarin
Mandarin is fast becoming a lingua franca in Hong Kong’s finance sector. Candidates who can only speak English and/or Cantonese are being frozen out of the job market. But in which functions within...
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Morning Coffee: Goldman partner at 27, finance failure at 49. Goldman women...
Just because your finance career flies in your 20s, don’t assume it will maintain the same sort of elevation two decades later on. Case in point: Eric Mindich, who will turn 50 this year, became the...
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I was an MD at RBS, but I’ve quit investment banking for good to climb Everest
Rory McHugh spent nearly 20 years in investment banking, travelling the world and dealing with senior executives in the boardrooms of corporations. Now, however, he’s decided that he is more...
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10 things you should know about that ‘big’ Credit Suisse bonus pool
You’ve probably heard that the Credit Suisse bonus pool was up 6% for 2016. If you don’t work for Credit Suisse, you probably think that was pretty generous (given the Swiss bank made a CHF2.7bn loss...
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Why I stopped being a quant and got back into AI instead
When I first graduated from Stanford, I’d tell people I have a degree in artificial intelligence and they would reply, “so, you are a science fiction writer?” I would then explain that I was an...
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Beware SG and HK banking recruiters who ask you out for coffee
In tightly-knit financial centres like Hong Kong and Singapore it’s common enough for recruiters to meet candidates for causal chats over coffee, even if they can’t offer any suitable vacancies right...
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“I’m a corporate banker in Asia. My clients can be nightmarish”
When I graduated in Singapore about six years ago I wanted a role where I could start to build my own set of clients while I was still a junior. I couldn’t do this in private banking (it takes too long...
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Morning Coffee: The amazing trading job you never knew about. Mnuchin makes a...
Behind the scenes of Amazon, day traders, quants and coders of artificial intelligence algorithms compete as third-party vendors selling products alongside Amazon’s own goods – an unseen world complete...
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The global head of equity derivatives has officially left Credit Suisse
Anthony Pesco wasn’t one of the recipients of Credit Suisse’s generous retention bonuses. After 18 years with the Swiss bank in NYC, he’s officially left the bank Pesco was Credit Suisse’s global head...
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Goldman Sachs salesman escapes for a hedge fund, returns eight months later
Escaping the trading floor of a large investment bank for a job at a hot new hedge fund is the dream for many on the sell-side, but it’s not always a permanent move. Rodrigo Albero, who was head of...
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The nature of trading jobs at Deutsche vs. trading jobs at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse’s sales and trading business is run by a former accountant. Deutsche Bank’s is not. We’d suggest you can see the difference in the charts below, taken from the banks’ recently published...
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The semi-official Goldman Sachs resumé template
If you’re trying to put together a CV or resumé with an eye to getting a job at Goldman Sachs, you might be wondering what to include. Clearly you need to include your educational attainments. Clearly...
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Senior bond trader leaves BNP Paribas as cuts take hold
BNP Paribas promised to scale down its investment bank in the UK last week, and now senior markets staff in London have started to depart. Most significantly, we understand that Michael Wheeler, BNP...
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Jobs at Hong Kong’s ‘big five’ banks surge 43% in just 12 months
Vacancies at Hong Kong’s de facto ‘big five’ banks have gone up by 43% over the past year. Twelve months ago, Bank of China, Bank of East Asia, Hang Seng Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered collectively...
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“I launched a private equity firm when I was only 26. Here’s how I did it”
While the average 26-year-old investment banker may have aspirations to join a private equity firm as a junior, Gina Heng had other ideas: she founded her own. The Singaporean’s rapid rise from...
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Morning Coffee: European bank luring 26 year-olds with an extra $125k. Where...
If you’re a European bank trying to get ahead in 2017, North America looks like the promised land. As Dealogic’s recent review of capital markets activity in the first quarter explained, the U.S. is...
View ArticleThe 10 companies financial services professionals are desperate to work for
J.P. Morgan has quietly become the investment bank that most finance professionals want to work for. It’s displaced Goldman Sachs from the top spot for the eFinancialCareers 2017 Ideal Employer...
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HSBC has hired a top trader who left CQS in November
HSBC is it. The British bank, whose investment banking operations are now under the control of former Goldman Sachs banker Mathew Westerman, has hired a well known trader who left a well known hedge...
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Jefferies has big plans for its EM trading desk, and has been poaching from...
Don’t call Jefferies a small investment bank. At least when it comes to emerging markets trading, the U.S. investment bank has ambitions to compete with the big players – and it’s been hiring....
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I left M&A for corporate development. This is what it’s like
If you’re working in an investment banking division (IBD), you might be thinking of escaping to the buy-side. Maybe you want to cut your working hours? Be warned: if you move to private equity, this...
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