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My best ever summer in banking: on gardening leave
If you’ve got another job to go to and you’re thinking of handing in your resignation in finance, you want to do it in May or June. – While the weather’s hot and the beach is calling. There’s no better...
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The real reason Goldman Sachs is eyeing Frankfurt: chaos in London?
As we observed after the British election two weeks ago, one of the big risks of all the political turmoil in the UK is the likelihood that – Brexit or not – U.S. banks decide that Britain doesn’t...
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CICC has just hired these outstanding interns
Not so long ago Chinese investments banks didn’t recruit many interns and those they did take on weren’t a match for the summer analysts at their Western counterparts. Times have changed, especially at...
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Five things to consider before you join the likes of UBS and Deutsche in Asia
It’s been a busy few weeks for big hiring announcements in Asian private banking. Just last week Deutsche Bank announced that it will hire 50 new bankers in Asia. In May, UBS revealed plans to recruit...
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CPA, CMA, CIA or ACCA – which accounting qualification will get you a job in...
You want to obtain an accounting qualification that will ultimately get you a job or advance your career at a bank, asset manager, management consultant, Big Four professional services firm or another...
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Morning Coffee: The sweary Morgan Stanley trader Goldman Sachs should hire....
It would be hard to conceive of a more mild-mannered, gentlemanly CEO than James Gorman, the Australian ex-McKinsey & Co. consultant at the helm of Morgan Stanley. Gorman may have flashes of steel...
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The lost Goldman Sachs 1985 fixed income recruiting video
In 1985, Goldman Sachs was still a partnership. The current partners owned around 80% of the firm, retired partners held the remainder. Lloyd Blankfein was a 31 year-old trader at J. Aron, the...
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Wall Street trader hiring heats up as Goldman Sachs & Nomura poach staff
If J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank’s banking analysts are right, some areas of fixed income trading (eg. U.S. investment grade and high yield credit) are likely to slow down in the second half of 2017....
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Three off-the-beaten-path fintech firms and who they’re hiring
While some financial technology companies only hire candidates with a Master’s degree or Ph.D. in mathematics, statistics, computer science or engineering – or are only looking for master coders who...
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Banks are going to use this new NYC “salary rule” to make you a crazily low...
If you haven’t found a new job on Wall Street already this year, you might soon be too late. Although banks are still bringing in senior fixed income traders now, their enthusiasm for senior front...
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MD-level trader by day, stand-up comedian by night jumps to Millennium Capital
Many people leave financial services to pursue passion projects, but given the long hours and hard work required to make it as a banker or hedge fund manager, very few try to tackle both...
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30+ bankers scrambling for each private equity job in Singapore
Private equity firms are expanding their headcounts in Singapore as fundraising increases – and they want to hire more junior bankers. Don’t get too excited. If you’re a banker, your chances of...
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Morning Coffee: Top banker says 20-somethings are way too stressed. Doom in...
This month’s British election helped highlight the growing discontentment among young people, a high proportion of whom voted for opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. Now a senior banker says he feels the...
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The 10 best jobs big banks can’t fill now
If you’re looking for a new banking job and you want an immediate response, you might want to avoid areas like private equity, which are renowned for attracting a huge surfeit of candidates. Why not...
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The six best places to network on Wall Street
These are the best places to network with New York City’s bankers, asset managers, hedge funders, private equity mavens and other finance professionals who could help to further your career. And...
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Former Deutsche head of rates who left for tech returns to J.P. Morgan
A former senior rates trader who left banking to set up his own tech firm has just resurfaced – in a rather different role at J.P. Morgan. Pasquale Cataldi, a rates trader who spent 10 years at...
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BofA wants someone to guard its top London bankers & their families
Bank of America’s London office is advertising for an “executive protection specialist”. Not just any executive protection specialist – an “executive protection specialist II” who’ll seemingly act as...
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Goldman juniors totally convinced they WON’T be replaced by machines
Are junior banking jobs passé? Are the analysts and associates who work 80 hours+ a week in corporate finance due to be replaced by intelligent computers that don’t have to leave the office at 9pm on a...
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Fintech firm poaches data scientist from JPMorgan
A data scientist and engineer who is also an expert Java developer, Mitul Raul is exactly the type of professional that banks want to recruit and retain. It’s unfortunate, then, that he just quit J.P....
View ArticleA former MAS deputy director has just joined Standard Chartered in a global role
Technology jobs aside, large banks don’t often hire people who haven’t worked for large banks before. And there are still fewer case of them elevating a non-bank hire into a senior rank. Tiak-Peow Phua...
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