UBS has started hiring traders again
In a sign that its ‘grey-haired’ recruitment spree is extending into trading functions, UBS has re-hired Robert Hagon, an ex-trader at the Swiss bank. Hagon last worked for UBS in 2001, when he left to...
View ArticleWhere successful London bankers go for the Bank Holiday weekend
If you’re a banker in London, this weekend marks the first May Bank holiday. Sandwiched between Easter and Whitsun and falling before the summer season, it’s an opportunity to catch your breath,...
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U.S universities more likely to impress banking recruiters
If we go with the assumption that investment banks a) target top universities for graduate recruits and b) largely attract students majoring in quantitative or finance-related topics, here’s a...
View ArticleMystery as head of European trading and sales trading disappears from RBC
Where is Mark Sartori? Headhunters say RBC’s European head of trading and sales trading is no longer in his role. And the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Register shows that Sartori left the bank in...
View ArticleWhat it takes to break into private equity in China
Investment bankers in Asia are increasingly ditching the bright lights of Hong Kong for private equity roles in Mainland China. Like Western markets, making the switch is tough and only a select few...
View ArticleThe new springboard to a lucrative banking career in Hong Kong
If you’re a mainland-based financial professional aspiring to work for a global bank in Hong Kong, the wealth management sector is increasingly becoming a good launch pad to make the move. Led by UBS,...
View Article8 people finance recruiters desperately want but can’t find
Which candidates are finance recruiters struggling to find? We asked a selection of top finance recruitment firms in London which CVs they’d love to land on their desks tomorrow. This is what they...
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UBS is pushing ahead with front office investment banking recruitment, pay rises
UBS’s investment bank remains under fire even after the radical shrinkage of 2013. Activist investor Eric Knight has suggested it be combined with Credit Suisse’s in order to become a ‘top player’. UBS...
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How to answer the interview question about the election and sterling
On Thursday, Britons will go to the polls. With both Labour and the Tories polling 33% of the electorate, the UK election promises to be incredibly close. And that could have implications for the pound...
View ArticleIs Murray Roos saying something about equities jobs at Citi?
Citi’s European equities sales and trading business has been in a state of flux. Will Murray Roos be the man to bring stability? Roos’s arrival from Deutsche was reported last week. Formerly co-head of...
View ArticleWhat Singaporean banks are telling you about job prospects
While international banks cut back their operations in Asia, the hope is that the large local banks can take up the slack. In the past week the three major Singaporean banks – DSS, UOB and OCBC – have...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The great HSBC jobs exodus myth. Why 23 year-old bankers are...
HSBC may move to Hong Kong and the financial world as we know it will come to an end. Or not. Yesterday it became apparent that in headcount terms at least, the hype over the possible migration of...
View ArticleThe top nationalities for making it in investment banking in London, New York...
Which nationalities are most likely to secure a job and get ahead in investment banking? The ‘legendarily hospitable’ Southern Europeans who can manage people and bring in the deals? Highly...
View ArticleThese are the 26 year-old IBD professionals Barclays wants now
It’s illegal to advertise jobs by age in the UK, so you won’t actually see any advertisements from Barclays calling for mid-20s IBD professionals. But this is what recruiters say the British bank needs...
View ArticleWhy banks are full of elites. And what to do if you’re not one of them
So you want to to work in an elite investment bank? You’ll need to be a member of an elite already. Alternatively, you’ll need to know a member of the banking elite who can vouch for you. This is the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How to quit UBS IBD aged 30. Ex-Deutsche rates salesman finds...
What do you do if, having thought investment banking was for you, you reach the age of 30 and suddenly decide that it isn’t and another career is more compelling instead? Why not leave with a banking...
View ArticleWant a high paying hedge fund job? Try Oxford
You don’t have to work in Mayfair to be employed by a top UK hedge fund. Until recently, you could work for Tudor Capital in a leafy estate in Epsom. Tudor Capital is now moving to London’s Regent’s...
View ArticleHow to make into the junior ranks at the hottest boutique investment bank
Centerview Partners is among the hottest investment banking boutiques out there. Over the past year, it’s lifted a whole team out of UBS, hired other big-hitting investment bankers and so far in 2015...
View ArticleWhy your IBD job will fill you with frustration
Hypothetically speaking, bureaucracy is the enemy of business. Bureaucracy is inefficient and wasteful. Bureaucracy is the hallmark of public institutions that eat tax money and sabotaged private...
View ArticleHow 30 year-old bankers became the most sought-after on the Street
It’s not so long ago that we were bemoaning the lot of the mid-ranking investment banker. How things have changed. At least for some. One year on from our lament about career stasis for vice...
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