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The hottest banking jobs for 25-year-olds in Asia right now
Are you slogging your way through a graduate analyst programme at a bank in Singapore or Hong Kong? Are you wondering whether to stick with your current firm after your traineeship is over or look to...
View ArticleGlobal investment banks are still doing some big hiring in Asia
Based upon recent reports, you could be forgiven for thinking that large international investment banks are giving up on the Asian dream. Standard Chartered, Nomura, CIMB, Macquarie, RBS, Barclays and...
View ArticleThe truth about motherhood and Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a nasty employer that doesn’t support mothers, compels women to breastfeed in parked cars and sidetracks them at the first sign of fecundity. So far, so squid-like. But is this really...
View ArticleWhy this UBS MD left a seven-figure salary to start a fintech firm
When Stu Taylor decided to quit his job at UBS to start his own business in 2012, he was giving up a seven-figure salary and a managing director role leading a team globally. “It was a big gamble, I’ll...
View ArticleLife is getting in the way of my promotion prospects
‘Brian’, a director in an investment bank in London, admits he probably left it a little late to start a family. In his late-30s and still trying to make the difficult step up to MD, he bit the bullet...
View ArticleDid Deutsche Bank just backdate a big pay hike for its junior bankers?
If you listen to London recruiters, Deutsche Bank’s junior M&A ranks have not been a happy place to be of late. While most US banks (and UBS) hiked salaries for their junior investment bankers...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Are you underpaid on $150k in Singapore?
A new survey from recruitment firm Kelly Services has pegged the annual salary range for compliance managers at finance firms in Singapore at S$120k to S$150k (US$89k to US$111k). But such is the...
View ArticleHow to write the perfect corporate banking CV
If you’re looking for a job as a relationship manager within corporate banking, you need to get your resume right – no matter how stellar your sales track record may be. A corporate banking CV that’s...
View ArticleCareer tips an ex-Goldman Sachs partner and JPM banker
Dorothee Blessing is both part of a banking dynasty in Germany and one half of a power couple in the financial sector. She is married to Commerzbank CEO, Martin Blessing, and followed in her father’s...
View ArticleDeutsche, Goldman, Barclays, CS – which bank is best when you’re a junior in...
If you’re a junior banker working in M&A or capital markets, you might think that whichever bank you work for, life will be pretty much the same. The hours will always be long, the spreadsheets...
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6 jobs you probably don’t want as Deutsche Bank becomes Barclays
In a major strategy reversal, Deutsche Bank probably won’t be completely exiting from its retail banking operations and probably will be making big cuts to its investment bank. For Deutsche’s 8,207...
View ArticleWhy you won’t want to work for a bank in London after the election, by...
The British election is two weeks away. Current polls suggest a Labour or Conservative-led government is equally likely. If you work in banking in London, or for a British bank anywhere, you need to...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Revealed – the bank whose senior managers gave away an $18m...
Back in February DBS announced that it was giving 18,000 of its employees an unexpected extra bonus of S$1k (US$800) each – a cost to the firm of S$18m. The cash was handed out to mark Chinese New...
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The hedge fund managers who pulled in $100m+ last year
Spare a thought for Alan Howard, co-founder of hedge fund Brevan Howard. After a tumultuous year, Howard is £100m worse off. £100m! Really, though, that’s a drop in the ocean of his personal fortune –...
View ArticleThese are the investment banks still hiring for jobs in Hong Kong right now
If you are looking for a front office investment banking job in Hong Kong, your search is unlikely to be straight forward, especially if you’re senior. Banks including Standard Chartered, Nomura and...
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One Deutsche LIBOR trader’s thoughts on the skills traders need
So, you want to work in trading? One of the LIBOR traders dismissed by Deutsche Bank has some deep thoughts on the subject. Shivani Mathur, one of 29 traders dismissed by Deutsche Bank following its...
View ArticleTales of workaholic investment banking bosses, and how to survive them
It wasn’t the greatest precedent to set. Alex, a third-year associate working on a FIG investment banking team in London, had just seen her notoriously hard-driving managing director go on maternity...
View ArticleTrader training for investment banking rejects
You don’t have to work in an investment bank to be a trader. Navinder Singh Sarao didn’t, and he made millions – until he was unexpectedly arrested for alleged market manipulation earlier this week....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The ultimate guide to why HSBC should move back to Hong Kong
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has for the past 22 years been headquartered in neither of the cities contained with its name. Now it is seriously considering whether to move from...
View ArticleNine financial services firms STILL hiring for graduate jobs in Asia
Are you about to graduate this year? Are you looking to join a financial services firm in Hong Kong or Singapore but haven’t lined up a job yet? Your search won’t be easy – most banks in the two cities...
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