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Morning Coffee: Goldman Sachs’ secret hoard of talented 20 year-olds. RBC...
Investment banks have got a problem, and they know it. Their problem is that they really like to hire people from elite universities with elite extracurricular activities on their résumés, in whom...
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Fintech is about to become a big part of the CFA exams. This is what you...
Get ready Chartered Financial Analyst candidates: fintech has hit the CFA exam, and it will only get bigger. Machine learning, big data, robo-advisers – all of this is set to become part of the CFA...
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Barclays has just made a big new rates trading hire in the U.S.
Barclays’ build-out of its U.S. trading business has begun. It’s just poached the head of U.S. inflation trading from BNP Paribas to lead its business in New York. Robert Tzucker has just joined...
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An ED quit Goldman Sachs for a crowdfunding company
Nowadays, most people seem to leave banking to do something more exciting after three years or less. In this sense, Natacha Tannous was a veteran when she quit Goldman this week: she’d been in banking...
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Barclays’ equities problem: it lost the Lehmanites
Does Barclays have a problem with its equities business? At the very least, the bank’s first quarter results suggest things aren’t going well there: revenues fell 10% compared to the first quarter of...
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This is how Brexit has hit jobs in M&A, hedge funds, trading, private equity...
Brexit has not killed front office recruitment in the City of London, but there’s one common theme – people are trying to leave big investment banks. Banks’ traders are increasingly trying to escape...
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I worked at J.P. Morgan, then McKinsey and have just started my own business....
I delivered eight venti unsweetened green iced teas, hold the ice, twice per day. This order fueled the Lehman Brothers credit default swap trading desk in August 2008, and placing it was one of my...
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The 10 hedge funds everyone wants to work for in 2017
So, it turns out that the people who want to work for hedge funds don’t mind about allegations of high staff turnover. They don’t mind being continuously rated on their performance via an iPad app. Nor...
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Two under-the-radar banks that might now hire you in Asia
As large private banks (from UBS to Julius Baer to Standard Chartered) ratchet up their recruitment in Asia, headhunters say two smaller firms are quietly hiring: Indosuez and CIMB. The banks have...
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“Older Western men dominate HK fintech. We need more locals, women and...
As you may have read back in February, I’m actively involved in Hong Kong’s fintech scene. Although my job at a start-up didn’t work out last year, I’m now running fintech events and hope to launch my...
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Morning Coffee: The place to make millions in hedge funds now. Jes Staley’s...
The chances of making billions at a hedge fund these days are decidedly slim. But maybe, just maybe, the future buy-side billionaires will have been discovered at one of the many hackathons hedge funds...
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The harsh clauses that lock you into a finance job
Finance employers are like a possessive partner: if they like you enough and you’re important enough to their world, they won’t want to let you go. An armoury of contractual arrangements will ensure...
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Chris Rokos has just hired a Goldman Sachs wunderkind who retired three years...
A former Goldman Sachs wunderkind, who retired from the bank three years ago aged 40, has just re-emerged at Rokos Capital Management. Chris Rokos, the former star trader at Brevan Howard who started...
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Deutsche Bank now wooing London staff with craft coffees
The feel good factors are coming thick and fast at Deutsche Bank in London. First came the posters urging employees to share all the positive things they do there, now we understand that a fancy...
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The one type of candidate the biggest Wall Street banks can’t hire enough of
Five of the biggest U.S. banks – J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi – remain among the top firms that people want to work for. The good news is they’re...
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Meet the U.S. hedge fund hiring from Citi and MS in London
A hard Brexit may be coming, but one U.S. hedge fund hasn’t been put off the London market: Chicago-based Balyasny Asset Management has increased its registered headcount in London by 19% since the...
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What does it take to get hired by Citadel? Meet its chief people officer L.J....
Hedge fund are closing at record rates, but Citadel – the $26bn multi-strategy fund run by Kenneth Griffin – is still building its team. Griffin said earlier this month that Citadel was on the...
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Seven of Hong Kong’s hottest banking technology jobs
Banks may be shifting some of their technology jobs from Hong Kong to lower-cost markets like India, but there are still plenty of IT roles based in the city. We’ve looked through careers website of...
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11 new job options for axed traders in Hong Kong and Singapore
Equities sales and trading roles are fast disappearing from banks in Asia, with Hong Kong the worst affected city. Earlier this month, Credit Suisse reportedly culled about 35 positions from its Asian...
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Morning Coffee: Goldman Sach bankers see past bonuses slip away. Mindful...
It always had the potential to go wrong. In the same way that Goldman Sachs’ stock – and all the deferred Goldman bonuses denoted in the stock – benefited disproportionately from the Trump boom,...
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