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This wealth management fintech firm is hiring…in Rhode Island
If you want to work in financial technology, you’re not always likely to be based in a major financial center. In the U.S., Rhode Island is offering incentives for companies to set up and create jobs,...
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“Credit Suisse pays all its mediocre MDs far too much”
Credit Suisse’s investment bankers and traders have a name for Tidjane Thiam: “The celebrity.” The French-educated ex-government minister who cut his teeth at the Prudential is seen as a bombastic big...
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The five jobs with the biggest pay rises in Singapore finance
New data has revealed the jobs where you will find the largest pay increases in Singapore financial services. There are a mere five functions (at particular seniority levels) where Singapore base...
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“I quit boring IBD for private banking. I don’t regret a thing”
I’m now a fairly senior private banker, but only three years ago I was working as an associate in Asian investment banking. While I hadn’t advanced high enough to fully reap the financial rewards of...
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Morning Coffee: The highest paying salaries for special 20-somethings....
Investment banks demand a lot from their graduate recruits. Clocking up 100-hours weeks, being at the beck and call of clients (and managing directors), often less than ‘challenging’ work. But here’s...
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What you should know about working for Credit Suisse now
Credit Suisse is the first major European investment bank to report its first quarter results. It’s managed to keep the fixed income party going. Across fixed income sales and trading revenues were up...
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“All the best people left banking years ago”
If you’re a young person starting in banking now, you might expect to find an industry replete with the wisdom amassed from various financial crises and filled with brilliant battle-worn managers. You...
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Lori Beer, J.P. Morgan’s investment bank CIO on fintech, funky offices and...
When Lori Beer, the recently-installed chief information officer of J.P. Morgan’s corporate and investment bank, started out in 1989, technology was much more of a man’s world than it is today. More...
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The perfect resume for investment banking professionals to land a job on Wall...
Getting a job at an investment bank in the U.S. is getting more difficult. You’ll need to complete multiple internships, participate in finance clubs and leadership activities, earn impeccable grades...
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Goldman Sachs has space ready for 100s more people in Frankfurt
Space is likely to become an issue as banks move operations from London to Frankfurt post-Brexit. Savills’ Frankfurt property investment head told Bloomberg the shortage of office space in the small...
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Deutsche Bank has made another major U.S. hire
Deutsche Bank is emerging from a self-imposed hiring freeze and has a renewed enthusiasm for hiring in senior bankers – especially in the U.S. The latest major hire in the U.S. is not in advisory,...
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How I made my way from poverty to playing in the Super Bowl – and now PE
Rising from poverty to graduate from an Ivy League university is impressive enough, but that only scratches the surface of Isaiah Kacyvenski’s story. He earned two degrees from Harvard and was an...
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It’s not just Obama: Cantor Fitzgerald is on a hiring roll
Want to work for Cantor Fitzgerald? We’re just asking because the U.S. brokerage firm seems to be making a big push in 2017. – Paying Obama $400k to speak at a conference is just the start. In the past...
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Credit Suisse now needs 180 new bankers in APAC as hiring stalls
Credit Suisse is in the market for hundreds of new private bankers in Asia-Pacific, but public proclamations of expansion don’t always go to plan, and their recruitment drive has stalled, according to...
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“I left HSBC for a Chinese bank in Hong Kong. Here’s what shocked me most”
Last year I left my job as an associate at HSBC’s investment bank in Hong Kong. But I didn’t join Stan Chart or Goldman or Citi – I went to a major Chinese institution. I’m a native Hongkonger and I’ve...
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Morning Coffee: The nasty news for Deutsche bankers aside from Brexit. Worked...
Deutsche Bank has reported its first quarter results and they’re not great. The bank’s traders did less well than rivals. Maybe that’s because they’re so constrained by risk management staff? Sylvie...
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Goldman Sachs sales MD makes bold switch to the buy-side
Last year, as Goldman Sachs axed more than its usual 10% clear out, senior fixed income sales staff felt the bulk of the cuts. This year, they’re leaving of their own accord. The latest departure is...
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10 questions you should ask when joining Deutsche Bank now
Deutsche Bank has reported. The first quarter of 2017 at the German bank wasn’t that great, particularly when compared to U.S. banks which had a spectacular start in fixed income trading (Goldman Sachs...
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MD quits M&A for top role at Houston private equity fund
U.S. oil and gas M&A bankers are having a great start to the year. Thomson Reuters says energy and power was the biggest sector for U.S. M&A deals in the first quarter and Dealogic says U.S....
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This is how much young hedge fund professionals earn in the U.S.
Have you ever wondered how much early-career-stage hedge fund professionals really make in the U.S.? Well, that depends very much on the type of firm you work for. You may not have realized how wide...
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