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Upset at Deutsche Bank as new hires thought to be on big guarantees
Deutsche Bank wants to crack the U.S. market in 2017. John Cryan personally is overseeing the bank’s U.S. operations and Deutsche has been doing some big hiring. However, the recruitment drive is...
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Strange investment banking career changes and how they worked out
Stop me if you’ve hear this one before: A bright-eyed economics major graduates magna cum laude from an Ivy League university, works two years at a prestigious investment bank on Wall Street, followed...
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Confessions of a Slang coder at Goldman Sachs
I was a Slang coder at Goldman Sachs. I spent 18 months coding front office systems in Goldman Sachs’ proprietary language and then I quit, but I haven’t ruled out returning to the bank in future. If...
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Senior J.P. Morgan technologist escapes to Google
Do you want to work for an investment bank? Or do you want to work for Google? In the case of Gokhan Topalhan, a former J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley technologist, the answer appears to be the latter:...
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Jefferies has continued to make some senior hires in the U.S.
Jefferies continues to poach senior investment bankers from its larger competitors. It’s just lured a 12-year veteran of J.P. Morgan to its Chicago office as managing director of not-for-profit...
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DBS boosts “insourced” tech staff by more than 1,300% in 12 months
DBS has increased the amount of “insourced” technology staff – people who used to work with its technology vendors – by 1,362% in just 12 months. The bank was home to 658 of these employees this Q1,...
View ArticleTrafigura is hiring the world’s top traders. Here’s what it takes to get in
Trafigura is hiring the world’s top traders into jobs offering immediate global mobility, the potential for rapid promotions, and a fast-paced working environment. The commodity trading and logistics...
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Morning Coffee: Where inexperienced 20 year olds can earn $8k a month. A new...
If you’re 18-20, looking for an all-expenses paid internship that will also offer a pro rata salary higher than most jobs pay after 10 years’ experience, then investment banking was the place to be....
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Bank by bank, this is what they’re saying about jobs and hiring now
Now that Easter’s passed, this should be the moment hiring heats up as banks pursue strategic hiring priorities for 2017. – Except that most banks don’t seem to have any strategic hiring priorities for...
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Eight of the hardest CFA questions, and how to answer them
You need to do at least 300 hours of study to pass each of the three CFA level exams. Or, you can always follow our guide to prepping for the CFA exams. Even so, the chances are that you could be...
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Why the buy-side is winning the battle for the hottest machine learning talent
There’s a new and increasingly important job in financial services – the head of machine learning. Hedge funds, investment banks and large asset managers are creating these roles and battling for...
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I’ve just quit my senior trading job to become a Wall Street headhunter....
PJ D’Amelio had wanted to quit the trading floor for a while, but it took being laid off from his job as head of European equities at Canacord Genuity for him to make the leap – into recruitment. “It...
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How Brexit killed American bankers’ dreams of London
In Britain’s home counties there is the wife of a senior American banker who thinks that Brexit is mostly a good thing. “Brexit makes sense,” she says. “When the EU made laws limiting maximum vacuum...
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Eight interview questions that could crush your banking career in Asia
Internal transfers aside, it isn’t easy to land a banking job in Singapore or Hong Kong if you’re not already based there. Asian client networks are increasingly important to careers in both cities,...
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KPMG partner: Singapore graduates should ditch “sense of entitlement”
KPMG is stepping up its graduate hiring in Singapore, but if you’re looking to join the firm, you need to ditch your “sense of entitlement”, says a locally-based partner. “The best way to recruit is to...
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Morning Coffee: London banker on $400k pinpoints why he doesn’t feel rich....
Thomas Piketty was onto something. The French economist, who published his 2.5m-selling treatise on global inequality in 2014, predicted that the top earners in the 21st century wouldn’t be the senior...
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Bold new career moves of ex-HSBC senior investment bankers
HSBC is ejecting senior investment bankers, and they’re not just going off and getting another banking job. Yes, some – like the former head of FIG Ben Leonard – might be going off to sell organic...
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HSBC’s traders are good. But don’t go getting too excited
First HSBC hired someone from Goldman Sachs to run its global banking division. Then it cut people across investment banking and sales and trading. Now, things seem to be going right. In the first...
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How to get among the 4% of people hired by Deloitte
Deloitte is the biggest of the Big Four professional services firm, while it hires thousands of people every year, it’s standards remain high. “We’re always looking for the best talent, and we’re...
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My parents were poor. Banks love me because of it
It’s supposed to be hard to get a banking job if you don’t come from the middle classes. Banks are supposed to love elite students who play high level tennis and have spent a year volunteering in...
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